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Boys Boxing In British Schools (1950s): When The Noble Art Was A Force For Good

Boys Boxing In British Schools (1950s): When The Noble Art Was A Force For Good

  Frank Horvat's pictures of seductively seedy Paris nightlife in 1956 are glorious. His pictures of London a year ...
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People Lying On A Bed Of Nails Was Once All The Rage

People Lying On A Bed Of Nails Was Once All The Rage

Like footballers drinking milk, men in brocaded jackets spinning plates atop tall sticks and Open ...
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Connie Rodd: Buxom Star Of The US Military Guide To Keeping ‘Weapons’ In Shape

Connie Rodd: Buxom Star Of The US Military Guide To Keeping ‘Weapons’ In Shape

  Connie Rodd.... sounds like a porn name, doesn't it? In fact, Connie was the ...
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Color Photos Of The 1922 Discovery of Tutankhamun’s Tomb

Color Photos Of The 1922 Discovery of Tutankhamun’s Tomb

"I think at the moment we did not even want to break the seal [on ...
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Sounds Of Glory: Listen To The Isolated Vocals Of The Ronettes Sing Baby I Love You (1963)

Sounds Of Glory: Listen To The Isolated Vocals Of The Ronettes Sing Baby I Love You (1963)

  "All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music" - Walter Parker, 1888   ...
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Elvis Presley Drugs Paraphernalia For Sale (And The King Of The Jews Says Chai)

Elvis Presley Drugs Paraphernalia For Sale (And The King Of The Jews Says Chai)

  Julien's - “The Auction House to the Stars” - features as part of its Icons ...
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Add An Extra Dimension to Play: The Famous World War II Battle of Navarone Giant Playset

Add An Extra Dimension to Play: The Famous World War II Battle of Navarone Giant Playset

One of the greatest non sci-fi playsets of my childhood in the 1970s-80s was this ...
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“Real & Rich & Cool” The Winston ‘Blaxploitation’ Cigarette Ads

“Real & Rich & Cool” The Winston ‘Blaxploitation’ Cigarette Ads

After World War Two American tobacco companies started to explore new markets to maintain their ...
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Polaroids Of Nights Out In Amsterdam’s Electric Townhouses (1979-1980)

Polaroids Of Nights Out In Amsterdam’s Electric Townhouses (1979-1980)

  Marc H. Miller and Bettie Ringma documented Amsterdam nightlife through Polaroids in 1979 and 1980. Artists ...
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The Terminal Bar, NYC: Derelicts, Wonderers, The Medicated, Pimps And Punters (1973-1981)

The Terminal Bar, NYC: Derelicts, Wonderers, The Medicated, Pimps And Punters (1973-1981)

  From 1973 to 1981, bartender Shelly Nadelman photographed the patrons and surroundings of the ...
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Gratuitous Nudity In Argos Catalogues (1978-1981)

Gratuitous Nudity In Argos Catalogues (1978-1981)

  Argos is a retailer that anyone in the UK is familiar with, but not ...
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Filming Moby Dick At Elstree Film Studios And Ireland (1954)

Filming Moby Dick At Elstree Film Studios And Ireland (1954)

  "The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious ...
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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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