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A Glorious Selection of Vintage Leap Year Cards

A Glorious Selection of Vintage Leap Year Cards

These cards reminds us that every four years a lady may ask a man for his hand in marriage ...
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Watching Aldous Huxley Die – 1963

Watching Aldous Huxley Die – 1963

As he lay dying, Laura Huxley asked her husband if he wanted some LSD. He did. This is what she saw... ...
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Love Is Walking Hand In Hand – With Lucy van Pelt (1965)

Love Is Walking Hand In Hand – With Lucy van Pelt (1965)

Another instalment from Charles M Schulz's delightful book on love ...
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Love Is Walking Hand In Hand – With Charlie Brown (1965)

Love Is Walking Hand In Hand – With Charlie Brown (1965)

Peanuts had something to say in Love Is Walking Hand In Hand ...
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I Married A Munchkin At The Chicago Midget Club (1948 – 1982)

I Married A Munchkin At The Chicago Midget Club (1948 – 1982)

In 1948 former Wizard of Oz Munchkin Parnell St. Aubin set up a bar with his new wife Mary Ellen Burbach, the former midget Mae West ...
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“A Playground for Men’s Hands” – Vintage Adverts: The Look of Love

“A Playground for Men’s Hands” – Vintage Adverts: The Look of Love

A woman on the left, a guy on the right, both giving each other "the look of love" - it's the perfect formula, and one that has been used countless times in advertising. ...
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27 Victorian Era Vinegar Valentines

27 Victorian Era Vinegar Valentines

“’Tis all in vain your simpering looks, You never can incline, With all your bustles, stays and curls, To find a Valentine.” ...
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Be My Valentine: Vintage Snapshots Of Love On The Cards

Be My Valentine: Vintage Snapshots Of Love On The Cards

‘Really the post is about the heart motif in photos as much as it is about Valentine’s Day,’ writes Robert E. Jackson. The message on these pictures says “I love you”. That’s what hearts mean, don’t they. They say ‘my heart is yours’, and because we feel with our hearts, giving them to another is profound and true. Receiving a heart motif must be good news for any one of us. But you never know. Giving your heart is a gamble. ...
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We Loved & Lost: Cherished Photographs Are Celebrations of Love

We Loved & Lost: Cherished Photographs Are Celebrations of Love

"In all the mix, your mind, in bereavement, goes over and over all the difficult times. For a long time that happened, but not so much or hardly at all now. Now I find that the things that I do remember are usually because there was a photo to capture that moment" - Anne Bray ...
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Kazuko and Wayne: A Japanese-American Romance Taken Between Dec 1955 and January 1957

Kazuko and Wayne: A Japanese-American Romance Taken Between Dec 1955 and January 1957

"I'm wondering if without our memories, there's nothing for it but for our love to fade and die" — Kazuo Ishiguro ...
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This Isn’t Happiness: Mid-Century Romance Comic Books Updated Into Tales Of Shallow Lives And Empty Sex

This Isn’t Happiness: Mid-Century Romance Comic Books Updated Into Tales Of Shallow Lives And Empty Sex

"Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality" - Charles Bukowski ...
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Sam Shepherd’s Love Letters To His Former Father In Law

Sam Shepherd’s Love Letters To His Former Father In Law

  Actor (Days of Heaven, 1978) and Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright (Buried Child, 1979) Sam Shepard (November ...
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