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Pushing Candy: When Kids’ Sweets Looked A Lot Like Drugs

Pushing Candy: When Kids’ Sweets Looked A Lot Like Drugs

Is sugar a gateway drug? Or, to put it in more modern terms, are illegal highs ...
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Fascinating Photos of London’s Soho Between the Wars

Fascinating Photos of London’s Soho Between the Wars

[Soho] is all things to all men, catering comprehensively for those needs which money can ...
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22 Soviet Union Fabric Designs To Enhance Communist Emulation – 1920s-1930s

22 Soviet Union Fabric Designs To Enhance Communist Emulation – 1920s-1930s

  In the 1920s and 1930s, Soviet Union mills made sure the media was the message. ...
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Haunting Portraits of Immigrants At Ellis Island by Lewis W. Hine (1905-1926)

Haunting Portraits of Immigrants At Ellis Island by Lewis W. Hine (1905-1926)

“[Photographers are] the Human Document to keep the present and the future in touch with ...
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Spirit Photography In 1920s England: When William Hope Conned Arthur Conan Doyle

Spirit Photography In 1920s England: When William Hope Conned Arthur Conan Doyle

Do you believe in ghosts? William Hope (1863 – 8 March 1933) did. Maybe. More ...
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Rene Lalique’s Glass Mascots: 1920s Car Ornaments For Your Hood

Rene Lalique’s Glass Mascots: 1920s Car Ornaments For Your Hood

  What you need for your car is a mascot. And no mascot is more ...
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The Rise and Fall of the Lyons’ Cornerhouses and their Nippy Waitresses

The Rise and Fall of the Lyons’ Cornerhouses and their Nippy Waitresses

In 1924 the directors of J. Lyons and Co. decided to update their image and specifically their waitresses. They held a staff competition to choose a nickname for the newly styled Lyon’s teashops’ waitresses. The former name of ‘Gladys’ was now seen as very old fashioned. The name ‘Nippy’ was eventually chosen, probably for the connotation that the waitresses nipped speedily around. ...
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25 Lambert & Butler “Hints and Tips for Motorists” Cigarette Cards from 1932

25 Lambert & Butler “Hints and Tips for Motorists” Cigarette Cards from 1932

In 1834 Charles Lambert, the son of a snuff miller from Surrey, set up a ...
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Top Ten Unlikely and Surprising Eugenicists

Top Ten Unlikely and Surprising Eugenicists

Before the Second World War, eugenics or as the Oxford Dictionary puts it: 'the science ...
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Vintage Japanese Beer Adverts: Hand-Painted Maidens

Vintage Japanese Beer Adverts: Hand-Painted Maidens

Before the Second World War, adverts in Japan, including Japanese Beer Adverts, were often produced by ...
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Ten Commandments For Flappers: 1922

Ten Commandments For Flappers: 1922

Spotter: @KarenAbbott
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Farewell Then ‘Mad’ Frankie Fraser, aka ‘the Dentist’: A British Gangster’s Life

Farewell Then ‘Mad’ Frankie Fraser, aka ‘the Dentist’: A British Gangster’s Life

  Farewell then ‘Mad’ Frankie Fraser, aka ‘the Dentist’. Pulling teeth out with pliars, that ...
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