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19 Photos That Will Take You Back to the 1980s

The '80s was a decade where big hair, big parties and the brat pack ruled Hollywood. Tom Cruise hadn't even heard of scientology, Julia Roberts still wore her hair curly and Meryl Streep rode the New...

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Striking and Surreptitious Photos Capture Street Scenes of Pennsylvania in...

Mark Cohen is an American photographer best known for his innovative close-up street photography. For years, on the streets of his home city, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and surrounding working-class...

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Haunting Black-and-White Photos of the London Fog

London was covered in “fog” at the beginning of the 20th century, culminating in the Great Smog in 1952. Here are 26 haunting black-and-white photos of the London fog.1 July 1907: St Pancras Railway...

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Vivid Color Photographs Show Iconic Beach Culture of Miami Beach in the Late...

Throughout the 1970s, a young photographer named Andy Sweet documented the personalities of Miami in vivid color. In 1977, Sweet returned to the area after completing his studies at the University of...

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The 27 Club – 15 Famous Rockers Who Died at Age 27

The 27 Club is one of the most famous (and creepy) things about rock music, with so many great talents having met their end at age 27.1. Jim MorrisonLead singer and songwriter of The Doors. After...

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50 Powerful Black-and-White Photographs of Life in Post-World War II Paris

Willy Ronis (1910 – 2009) was a French photographer, who crafted powerful black-and-white images in which he captured the rich texture of everyday working-class life in post-World War II Paris.

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Rare Photographs of The Doors Performing at Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain...

These rare and amazing photographs of The Doors were taken by Victoria Joyce while the band performing at Mount Tamalpais State Park during the KFRC Fantasy Fair And Magic Mountain Music Festival in...

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Last Known Photos of Jim Morrison in Paris on June 28, 1971

On June 28, 1971, Jim Morrison, Pamela Courson, and their friend, Alain Ronay, took a day trip to Saint-Leu-d’Esserent, north of Paris, less than a week before Jim died on July 3. These are the last...

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44 Amazing Photographs That Captured Daily Life of New York City in 1983

German photographer Thomas Hoepker takes us back to New York City in 1983 through his amazing photographs below...The Midtown Manhattan skyline seen through a misty window.Chinatown's Canal Street...

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Beautiful Color Photographs of Harlem in the 1970s

Jack Garofolo (1923-2004) was a photographer for Paris Match magazine in the 1960’s and 70’s. During one trip to the United States in the summer of 1970, Garofalo captured these amazing photographs of...

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38 Rare Color Photos of 'Smiling' Marilyn Monroe that You May Have Never Seen...

Here are rare color photographs of Marilyn Monroe, one of women who owned the sexiest smile.

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15 Beautiful Color Photos of Street Scenes of Cairo in the 1910s

These hand-colored lantern slides brings to life a bygone era...Attending a funeral in Cairo.Here’s a wedding procession in Helwan, a city just south of Cairo.Beggars and locals at a sidewalk cafe in...

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Kurt Cobain’s Handwritten “Top 50 by Nirvana”

Titled “Top 50 by Nirvana,” it includes plenty of selections that will be familiar to the band’s fans: The Vaselines, Sonic Youth, The Raincoats, The Wipers, Leadbelly. But there are some fascinating...

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Pictures of John Lennon with Yoko in New York City Just 10 Days Before He was...

In the Fall of 1980, Allan Tannenbaum had the priviledge of photographing John Lennon and Yoko Ono for the SoHo Weekly News. The photographs were taken whilte John and Yoko filming of a video to...

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Backyard Bunkers of the Blitz: Pictures of How London Families Lived in Their...

In 1938, with the outbreak of World War II on the horizon, Sir John Anderson was placed in charge of air-raid preparations in Britain. He commissioned engineers to design a cheap and simple shelter...

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Acquaintance Cards – These Pickup Cards from the 19th Century are Fantastic

Long before online dating, young men in the U.S. around 1870s to 1880s would keep a few of these pickup cards in their back pocket and hand to women they found attractive. According to Alan Mays, a...

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Wonderful Color Photographs of Switzerland from between the 1940s and 1960s

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Rare and Unseen Photographs Taken from the Archives of The Beatles Book

Throughout The Beatles' career, official magazine The Beatles Book captured their development from British pop fledglings to international megastars. Photographer Leslie Bryce travelled the world with...

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14 Vintage Photos That Prove Victorian Women Never Cut Their Hair

c. 1890. (Image: History of Advertising Trust/Heritage Images/Getty Images)In the Victorian era, a Western woman's hair was considered an important part of her appearance. On both sides of the...

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Amazing and Rare Color Vintage Photographs of Disneyland in 1955

The following magically vintage pictures of Disneyland you are about to see, during its opening year of 1955, will surely make you wish you had a time machine! There may be a few you've seen before,...

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Everyday Life in Italy in the 1950s

These beautiful vintage photographs of Italy that will make you want to time travel...Two women hailing a Vespa Taxi-Scooter, in Milan. April 1952. (Keystone / Getty Images)Two musicians play...

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30 Beautiful Color Photos of Turkey in 1971

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75 Interesting Vintage Photographs Captured Everyday Life in Sweden from the...

These interesting vintage photographs were captured by Oskar Jarén, showing daily life in Sweden from between the 1910s and 1920s...Little girl and three owls, 1925.Three little girls with their...

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Beautiful Vintage Color Photographs of Streets of Stockholm in the 1960s

Kungsgatan in Stockholm 1964Vattugatan in central Stockholm in 1964Trams at Tegelbacken in Stockholm 1962Buses and tram at Odenplan in Stockholm 1962Bus and tram on Munkbron in Stockholm...

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Stunning Black-and-White Photographs of Rome, Italy in 1956

In 1956 a young William Klein, painter, graphic artist and photographer, veteran of the success of his book-photo diary of New York, arrives in Rome called by Fellini as an assistant director of his...

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