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Questionnaire Sent To Prospective Members of the Ku Klux Klan (1921)

Questionnaire Sent To Prospective Members of the Ku Klux Klan (1921)

In 1921, white Protestants might receive an invitation to take a test to join the ...
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Women Featured On British Football Programme Covers From The 1960s, 70s And 80s

Women Featured On British Football Programme Covers From The 1960s, 70s And 80s

In the 1980s, the most famous female footballer in the UK was Dorothy (Dee Hepburn), ...
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Room With A View: The Intimate World Of Josef Sudek

Room With A View: The Intimate World Of Josef Sudek

"I like to tell stories about the life of inanimate objects, to relate something mysterious: ...
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Join the Dinky Starfleet! Remembering the Dinky Space Toys of the 1970s

Join the Dinky Starfleet! Remembering the Dinky Space Toys of the 1970s

  Although Dinky Toys was in operation as early as 1935, I first learned of ...
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Concrete Poems: Abandoned Hotels In The Sinai Desert

Concrete Poems: Abandoned Hotels In The Sinai Desert

German artists Sabine Haubitz and Stefanie Zoche's photographs of abandoned Sinai Hotels point to what might ...
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Star Wars: Mark Hamill has fun with a fans’  Star Wars trading cards

Star Wars: Mark Hamill has fun with a fans’ Star Wars trading cards

Once upon a time, Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker) thought it a good idea to mess ...
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Elizabeth Taylor Cleopatra Hair Dressing Department Photographs (1963)

Elizabeth Taylor Cleopatra Hair Dressing Department Photographs (1963)

These continuity photographs showing Elizabeth Taylor in costume were taken by the Cleopatra (1963) hair dressing department. ...
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Vaal the Right Moves: Remembering Mego’s Mission to Gamma Playset (1976)

Vaal the Right Moves: Remembering Mego’s Mission to Gamma Playset (1976)

  In 1967, Star Trek (1966-1969) featured an episode titled “The Apple.” In that story, ...
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Nils T. Granlund And His Colony Of Naked Sun Worshippers Star At New York’s World Fair (1939)

Nils T. Granlund And His Colony Of Naked Sun Worshippers Star At New York’s World Fair (1939)

In 1939, the New York World's fair hosted a display by the NTG Sun Worshippers. ...
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The Vietnam War People Sniffer: Sweating Gets You Killed (1967)

The Vietnam War People Sniffer: Sweating Gets You Killed (1967)

In 1967, US troops in Vietnam were equipped with the People Sniffer, a device designed to ...
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Katharine Hepburn Became A Sexy Silver Moth For Christopher Strong (1933)

Katharine Hepburn Became A Sexy Silver Moth For Christopher Strong (1933)

In 1933, a 26-year-old Katharine Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) starred as Lady ...
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Madonna’s AIDS Comic Given To Fans At A 1987 Concert

Madonna’s AIDS Comic Given To Fans At A 1987 Concert

On July 13 1987, Madonna performed at New York's Madison Square Garden. Before the show she ...
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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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