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The Peek-A-Boo Girl Gets Cut: In 1943 Veronica Lake Saved America And A Million Women’s Hair

The Peek-A-Boo Girl Gets Cut: In 1943 Veronica Lake Saved America And A Million Women’s Hair

    In 1943, Veronica Lake (nee Constance Keane) illustrated what could happen to women war ...
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Rugged Steel Worlds! Remembering the Carry-All Action Playsets by Marx

Rugged Steel Worlds! Remembering the Carry-All Action Playsets by Marx

  In the late 1960s, toymaker Marx introduced an incredible new concept in toys: giant ...
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Wild Raspberries And Fighting Gefilte Fish: Andy Warhol’s 1959 Spoof of Haute Cuisine Cookbooks

Wild Raspberries And Fighting Gefilte Fish: Andy Warhol’s 1959 Spoof of Haute Cuisine Cookbooks

In 1959, interior designer and bohemian hostess Suzie Frankfurt was perusing the art displayed at New York's Manhattan’s ...
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Rare Photos Of Frida Kahlo Wearing A Plaster Communist Corset, Feeding Ducks And On A New York Rooftop

Rare Photos Of Frida Kahlo Wearing A Plaster Communist Corset, Feeding Ducks And On A New York Rooftop

These rare photographs of Frida Kahlo (July 6, 1907–July 13, 1954) are from a show at ...
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Cats, Chemicals And A Gun Under The Pillow: Dying William S. Burroughs’s Daily Routine

Cats, Chemicals And A Gun Under The Pillow: Dying William S. Burroughs’s Daily Routine

These are the last private musings and reflections of William S. Burroughs, written from mid-November ...
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21 Fantastic Pulp Fiction Book Titles From The Mid 20th Century

21 Fantastic Pulp Fiction Book Titles From The Mid 20th Century

Pulp Fiction at its best is insolent, cruel, lurid, provocative, escapist and fast. The wit is ...
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22 Unforgettable British Football Programme Covers From The 1960s, 70s And 80s

22 Unforgettable British Football Programme Covers From The 1960s, 70s And 80s

The joy of old football programmes... ...
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30 Vintage Japan Illustrations – 1950s-1970s

30 Vintage Japan Illustrations – 1950s-1970s

“It doesn’t occur to most people that everything is designed — that every building and everything they touch in the world is designed” - Bill Moggridge ...
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Where No Collectibles Have Gone Before: A Survey of Weird Star Trek Merchandising Tie-Ins (1966 – 1996)

Where No Collectibles Have Gone Before: A Survey of Weird Star Trek Merchandising Tie-Ins (1966 – 1996)

Star Trek has been around, and popular, for nearly a half-century at this point.  In ...
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Change is Coming? Superhero Taglines 2009 – 2015

Change is Coming? Superhero Taglines 2009 – 2015

    So...are you tired of superhero movies and their tag-lines  yet? If enough of ...
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Polaroids Blown Up: Albert Watson’s ‘Roids! Blend The Tangible With The Digital

Polaroids Blown Up: Albert Watson’s ‘Roids! Blend The Tangible With The Digital

"There needs to be some art of photography here. And that’s… that’s what you need ...
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Fun For A Girl And A Boy: Slinky Toy Commercials Across The Decades

Fun For A Girl And A Boy: Slinky Toy Commercials Across The Decades

  In 1943, an inventor named Richard James created a toy that is still going ...
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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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