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Charles Bukowski’s Letter To The Man Who Helped Him Escape Slavery To Become A Full-Time Writer

Charles Bukowski’s Letter To The Man Who Helped Him Escape Slavery To Become A Full-Time Writer

In 1969, at age 49, Black Sparrow Press publisher John Martin made him offer: quite your job and I'll pay you $100 a month for life to write. ...
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20 Superb Mid-Century Advertising Trade Card Postcards

20 Superb Mid-Century Advertising Trade Card Postcards

  Via William Bird's collection
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The Pauli Effect: How Einstein’s Brilliant Successor Accidentally Destroyed Everything

The Pauli Effect: How Einstein’s Brilliant Successor Accidentally Destroyed Everything

"Wolfgang Ernst Pauli (25 April 1900 – 15 December 1958), one of the founders of ...
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The ‘Schoolkids’ Oz, Soho, and the Downfall of the ‘Dirty Squad’

The ‘Schoolkids’ Oz, Soho, and the Downfall of the ‘Dirty Squad’

  For over 200 years Soho has had a racy reputation. Prostitution, for instance, was relatively ...
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‘Schoolkids’ Oz: Read In Full The Magazine That Started A Revolution

‘Schoolkids’ Oz: Read In Full The Magazine That Started A Revolution

In May 1970, London-based Oz magazine published the 'SCHOOL KIDS ISSUE', OZ No. 28. The issue was ...
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They’re Ideal: Three Amazing Toys of the 1960s Designed by Marvin Glass

They’re Ideal: Three Amazing Toys of the 1960s Designed by Marvin Glass

    In The Chicago Tribune on November 5, 1961, the late Marvin Glass (1914-1974) ...
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A Bookmobile Library Rolls Into New Rochelle (1955)

A Bookmobile Library Rolls Into New Rochelle (1955)

In 1955 a 'Bookmobile' mobile library rolled into a residential area of New Rochelle, New ...
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Sunglasses Ron Rocks The Rainbow In 1977

Sunglasses Ron Rocks The Rainbow In 1977

  The photograph above – taken by a friend, Neal Purvis – captures one of the ...
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People Sitting On Sofas In The Mid-20th Century

People Sitting On Sofas In The Mid-20th Century

Found Photos presents people sitting on sofas and chairs in the mid-20th Century:       
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Atelier 1923: Illustrations From Russia’s First Fashion Magazine

Atelier 1923: Illustrations From Russia’s First Fashion Magazine

In 1923, Russian fashionistas could buy issue one of Atelier. Inna Fedorova explains (Via): ...Atelier, created ...
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How To Dress For Success And To Get A Man: A 1967 Guide For Useless Women

How To Dress For Success And To Get A Man: A 1967 Guide For Useless Women

  "Just look pretty and keep quiet" is among the many pearls of wisdom offered ...
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America’s Fastest Shoppers Hit Brixton For A Tesco Supermarket Sweep (1966)

America’s Fastest Shoppers Hit Brixton For A Tesco Supermarket Sweep (1966)

On 10th August 1966, Mr and Mrs Buzidragis and their son Joe, winners of America's Supermarket ...
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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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