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Hit! The Service Man’s Gazette (June 1944)

Hit! The Service Man’s Gazette (June 1944)

June 1944 was the month of D-Day, where 160,000 Allied troops crossed the English Channel to ...
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The Woman Suffrage Procession In Photos (March 3 1913)

The Woman Suffrage Procession In Photos (March 3 1913)

"This is the most conspicuous and important demonstration that has ever been attempted by suffragists ...
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“Bikes, Broads, Beer, and Boogie”: 45 Biker Magazines from the 1980s

“Bikes, Broads, Beer, and Boogie”: 45 Biker Magazines from the 1980s

Easyriders magazine was the motorcycle magazines of the 1970s (with Iron Horse a distant second). Far ...
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Vinyl Over-Exposed: The Awful Multi-Exposure Album Cover Trend of the 1960s-70s

Vinyl Over-Exposed: The Awful Multi-Exposure Album Cover Trend of the 1960s-70s

Initially, I suppose, it was a cool look. However, once the trend took hold, it ...
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Prostitutes And Madams: Mugshots From When Montreal Was Vice Central

Prostitutes And Madams: Mugshots From When Montreal Was Vice Central

Montreal, Canada, 1949. Le Devoir publishes a series of articles decrying lax policing and the spread ...
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The Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

The Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

"I get a thrill when they’re kneeling there, between my knees and they’re looking up at me. And I want them to call me Mr Hill, not Benny. ‘Is that all right for you, Mr Hill?’ That’s lovely, that is, I really like that,” I asked him why and he said, “Well, it’s respectful...”’ - Benny Hill ...
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The Nightmare That Was “His & Her” Fashions

The Nightmare That Was “His & Her” Fashions

Yes, in the 1960s-80s a couple could wear matching sweaters without the slightest sense of ...
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To Love a Mannequin: A Troubling Christian Dior Advert from 1969

To Love a Mannequin: A Troubling Christian Dior Advert from 1969

This 1969 French advertisement for Gaines Et Gorges (a lingerie brand from Christian Dior) features a gentleman ...
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Poor Richard Nixon: A Biting Pre Donald Trump Satire On Another Transparent Fraud (1971)

Poor Richard Nixon: A Biting Pre Donald Trump Satire On Another Transparent Fraud (1971)

In 1971, Philip Guston (1913-1980) lampooned Richard Nixon in a series of 180 drawings called Philip Guston's ...
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Why Superman Turned Lois Lane Black And Then Refused To Marry Her In 1970

Why Superman Turned Lois Lane Black And Then Refused To Marry Her In 1970

In November 1970, Lois Lane asked Superman a question: "Will you Marry me just the way I ...
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Toking For Jesus: The Cannabis Spiritual That Slipped Past The Censors (1971)

Toking For Jesus: The Cannabis Spiritual That Slipped Past The Censors (1971)

One Toke Over The Line was performed on The Lawrence Welk Show, a television program ...
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Fascinating Photos of Dublin in 1973

Fascinating Photos of Dublin in 1973

Photos of Dublin in May 1973 by Heinrich Klaffs. Ireland had just joined the EEC ...
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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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