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A Gauntlet of Terrors: An Undercover Reporter Shames America Over Its Treatment Of Immigrants (1921)

A Gauntlet of Terrors: An Undercover Reporter Shames America Over Its Treatment Of Immigrants (1921)

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" - The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus ...
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Glorious Summers In P-Town: Photos From The Massachusetts Cape (1937 – 1942)

Glorious Summers In P-Town: Photos From The Massachusetts Cape (1937 – 1942)

  Between 1937 and 1942, Farm Security Administration photographers Edwin Rosskam and John Collier recorded ...
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Doppelgangers And Wraiths: Double Exposures And Other Ghosts

Doppelgangers And Wraiths: Double Exposures And Other Ghosts

  “The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.” ― Stephen King, Bag of ...
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Bone Idols: The Cult Of Dripping Saints In Jewels – Incredible Photos

Bone Idols: The Cult Of Dripping Saints In Jewels – Incredible Photos

Venerating human remains is not to everyone's tastes. Pouring wax over skulls and bones to form a kind of skin adds a ghoulish air. ...
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An October 1970 Weekday At The University of California, Berkeley

An October 1970 Weekday At The University of California, Berkeley

  Back near the end of the height of the hippy movement in California's Bay ...
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Kitchen & Laundry Miracles! Vintage Appliances and the Women that Loved Them

Kitchen & Laundry Miracles! Vintage Appliances and the Women that Loved Them

Home appliance advertising from the 1950s-1970s basically consisted of women in a state of sublime ...
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‘The Whole Place Was Going NUTS’ When The Cramps Played A Mental Hospital in Napa, California (1978)

‘The Whole Place Was Going NUTS’ When The Cramps Played A Mental Hospital in Napa, California (1978)

  On June 13, 1978, The Cramps performed a free concert for patients at the California ...
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Camper Tramps: A Spicy 1970s Komfort Travel-Trailer Brochure

Camper Tramps: A Spicy 1970s Komfort Travel-Trailer Brochure

The marketing strategy of the 1970s could basically be boiled down to two steps: Step (1) ...
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New York’s Greatest Man Catcher: Dead Shot Mary Shanley

New York’s Greatest Man Catcher: Dead Shot Mary Shanley

In 1934, the New York Police Department finally let women officers carry guns. The first female ...
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35 Mixed-Gender Groups from the 1960s-1980s You Probably Never Heard Of

35 Mixed-Gender Groups from the 1960s-1980s You Probably Never Heard Of

We've all heard of The Mamas and the Papas, ABBA, The Fifth Dimension, and Fleetwood ...
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Women Of The Guomindang: A Diplomat’s 1940s Portraits Of China

Women Of The Guomindang: A Diplomat’s 1940s Portraits Of China

Fu Bingchang (1895-1965) was a diplomat and Nationalist politician, as well as an accomplished portrait and ...
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When Bat Woman And Other Birds Outraged The Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea

When Bat Woman And Other Birds Outraged The Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea

My posts about the Mr Freedom designs in the V&A collection sparked some memories from graphic ...
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    Debbie Harry And Me – Shooting The Blondie Singer in 1970s New York City

    Debbie Harry And Me – Shooting The Blondie Singer in 1970s New York City

    Chris Stein 's photographs of Debbie Harry and friends take us back to a great era of music ...
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    The First ‘Sext’ – Sarah Goodridge’s ‘Beauty Revealed’ (1828)

    The First ‘Sext’ – Sarah Goodridge’s ‘Beauty Revealed’ (1828)

      'Beauty Revealed' is a self-portrait by the American artist Sarah Goodridge (February 5, 1788 - December 28, 1853). Descendants of US Secretary of State Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) say Goodridge painted it for him. Why is unclear. But we can guess. Robert Remini, in ...
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    Fabulous Photographs of Cruising Van Nuys Boulevard In 1972

    Fabulous Photographs of Cruising Van Nuys Boulevard In 1972

    Rick McCloskey's fabulous photographs of a vanished Californian youth culture ...
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    Bloody Brutal Vintage Crime Scene Photos from the Los Angeles Police Department Archives

    Bloody Brutal Vintage Crime Scene Photos from the Los Angeles Police Department Archives

    In 2014 Los Angeles-based photographer Merrick Morton (a onetime LAPD reserve officer) spotted a derelict stash of haunting LAPD crime photos. Here they are. ...
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    Too pinko for Dan or How Slim Pickens replaced Peter Sellers as Major Kong in Dr. Strangelove

    Too pinko for Dan or How Slim Pickens replaced Peter Sellers as Major Kong in Dr. Strangelove

    Kubrick had optioned Peter George’s book Red Alert and was working on a screenplay with George when he realised the impossibility of making a melodrama out such an horrific subject and thought the only rational response was to make “a nightmare comedy." ...
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    Dirty Sex, Freaks And Derelicts Of 1980s New York City (NSFW)

    Dirty Sex, Freaks And Derelicts Of 1980s New York City (NSFW)

    “Before I arrived in NYC in 1980 I had lived in Berlin and London so I was ready for the rotten apple from the beginning.” ...
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    ‘A Shit of the Highest Order!’ The Story of the Charming Lord ‘Bob’ Boothby

    ‘A Shit of the Highest Order!’ The Story of the Charming Lord ‘Bob’ Boothby

    To his face, the writer, campaigner and broadcaster Sir Ludovic Kennedy once called Baron Boothby of Buchan and Rattray Head, his mother’s cousin, ‘a shit of the highest order’. Boothby’s response was to chortle, rub his hands and say: ‘Well a bit. Not entirely.’ ...
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    The Anarchy Tour of 1976

    The Anarchy Tour of 1976

    Ray Stevenson's Extraordinary Photos of the Clash and the Sex Pistols... ...
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    The Sixteen Pleasures: The Vatican’s 16th Century Sex Guide

    The Sixteen Pleasures: The Vatican’s 16th Century Sex Guide

      I Modi (The Ways) is best known as The Sixteen Pleasures, an illustrated sex guide published by Marcantonio Raimondi in 1524. Based on paintings by Giulio Romano, The Sixteen Pleasures carries the proud boast of being the first work of pornography banned by the Catholic church. For his gross indecency, Raimondi was imprisoned by ...
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    Tea For Two: The Last Photos Of Jimi Hendrix Alive, By Monika Dannemann

    Tea For Two: The Last Photos Of Jimi Hendrix Alive, By Monika Dannemann

    On September 17, 1970, Jimi Hendrix with in London his German girlfriend, the former ice-skating teacher Monika Dannemann.  She had rented rooms at the Samarkand, a self-catering apartment hotel in Notting Hill. After a day out at Kensington Market and the Cumberland Hotel, Jimi and Monika took tea in the garden behind her flat. Monika ...
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