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Jerry Garcia’s Touching 1982 Letters And Sketch To A Vogue Cover Model

Jerry Garcia’s Touching 1982 Letters And Sketch To A Vogue Cover Model

'Oh well—I’ve always wanted to visit Ireland. Hope you enjoyed it & I hope this letter finds you well' ...
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Eating Out: Mind-Blowing Mid-Century Restaurant Postcards

Eating Out: Mind-Blowing Mid-Century Restaurant Postcards

In the 20th Century we began to eat out in our droves. In this gallery, ...
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Alexander Calder Performs His Circus Calder And Other Mobile Marvels

Alexander Calder Performs His Circus Calder And Other Mobile Marvels

American-born artist Alexander “Sandy” Calder (1898 – 1976) is best known for his stellar, shivering, complex ...
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Francis Bacon’s Modernist Furniture (Before Bacon Agonistes)

Francis Bacon’s Modernist Furniture (Before Bacon Agonistes)

  I’m fascinated by the modernist furniture and interiors produced by Francis Bacon before his ...
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The Outstanding Ice Follies Programme 1970

The Outstanding Ice Follies Programme 1970

Behold the over-the-top gaudy glitz of Ice Follies 1970. I recently came into a stack ...
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It’s You Against the Great White Shark: Remembering Ideal’s The Game of Jaws (1975)

It’s You Against the Great White Shark: Remembering Ideal’s The Game of Jaws (1975)

  It was the year 1975, and the apex of Jaws Mania. By some reckonings, ...
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The Harmony of Courtship: Naughty Stereo Cards (1870-1907)

The Harmony of Courtship: Naughty Stereo Cards (1870-1907)

Those 3D stereoscopes so beloved by the late Victorians were loaded with humor and sex. It ...
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When Bicycle Messenger Boys Peddled Drugs And Sex Across America (1908 – 1917)

When Bicycle Messenger Boys Peddled Drugs And Sex Across America (1908 – 1917)

In 1908, Lewis Hine began taking photographs of bicycle messenger boys across America. Funded by the National ...
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Mid-Century Found Photos of People Wearing Hats

Mid-Century Found Photos of People Wearing Hats

Headwear was once compulsory for men and women. Now it's only de rigueur in places ...
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In Full: Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon Comic Book Programme (1975)

In Full: Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon Comic Book Programme (1975)

In 1975 Pink Floyd starred in a comic book, published to coincide with the band's ...
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Behind The Scenes Photos From Pink Floyd’s The Wall

Behind The Scenes Photos From Pink Floyd’s The Wall

Alan Parker’s tour de force film of Pink Floyd’s 1979 album The Wall, with contributions from Roger ...
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Too Gross! Remembering Mattel’s Mad Scientist Toys of the 1980s

Too Gross! Remembering Mattel’s Mad Scientist Toys of the 1980s

  In 1987, Mattel introduced the world to a great -- though messy -- toy ...
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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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