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Walt Whitman Leading Light Of America’s First Gay Bar: The New York Bohemians Who Made Good At Pfaff’s

Walt Whitman Leading Light Of America’s First Gay Bar: The New York Bohemians Who Made Good At Pfaff’s

  Pfaff’s was America’s first gay bar. Located at 647 Broadway, patrons of the vaulted underground cellar ...
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Why So Serious? Superhero Movie Tag-lines 2001 – 2008

Why So Serious? Superhero Movie Tag-lines 2001 – 2008

  More great tag-lines, from the Age of Superheroes Triumphant! Although, I must admit, these ...
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The Art Of Writing: The Joy Of Illustrated Letters (1800-1980)

The Art Of Writing: The Joy Of Illustrated Letters (1800-1980)

Remember handwritten letters? Pretty much the only handwritten missives anyone gets today are birthday cards. But ...
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Dear Adam… Bob Tupper’s 1950s Comics For The Sexually Troubled

Dear Adam… Bob Tupper’s 1950s Comics For The Sexually Troubled

You can judge Bob Tupper by these artworks. Or you can find some of his ...
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Slam Evil! Superhero Tag-Lines: 1966 – 2000

Slam Evil! Superhero Tag-Lines: 1966 – 2000

In terms of superhero films, many fans see the dawn of the new age -- ...
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Greeting From Mid-Century America: 34 Sensational Postcards Of The Ordinary And Weird

Greeting From Mid-Century America: 34 Sensational Postcards Of The Ordinary And Weird

“To be universally liked is to be relatively ignored” Postcards from mid-Century USA. Wish you were ...
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The Complete Set Of Marshall McLuhan’s Distant Early Warning Playing Cards (1969)

The Complete Set Of Marshall McLuhan’s Distant Early Warning Playing Cards (1969)

  This is the complete set of Distant Early Warning playing cards, by media theorist and ...
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Our Friend The Atom: The 1956 Disney Book That Made You Love The Bomb

Our Friend The Atom: The 1956 Disney Book That Made You Love The Bomb

    Our Friend the Atom was the Walt Disney book written by Heinz Haber with illustrations ...
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You’re the Star of the Story: Remembering CYOA (Choose Your Own Adventure) Books

You’re the Star of the Story: Remembering CYOA (Choose Your Own Adventure) Books

  In the early years of the 1980s, Bantam Books published a book franchise titled Choose ...
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Mark Twain’s Re-Animated War Prayer (1905)

Mark Twain’s Re-Animated War Prayer (1905)

“I don’t think the prayer will be published in my time. None but the dead ...
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Calvert And Kinneir’s Road Signs And Design Classics

Calvert And Kinneir’s Road Signs And Design Classics

"I now regret that I didn’t put a corner of a spade on the ‘men at work’ sign, it would have stopped all the jokes about a man struggling to put up an umbrella!" ...
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Highlights From The 1970 Practical Encylopedia of Good Decorating and Home Improvement

Highlights From The 1970 Practical Encylopedia of Good Decorating and Home Improvement

Highlights and lowlights from Practical Encylopedia of Good Decorating and Home Improvement - The good and ...
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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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