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Bar by Borghesani of Italy, 1969
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A reusable shopping list from the 1920s.
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The Simpsons writers room in 1992
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'Satan Lives' in my toaster - the last line nails it
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In 1964 Ringo Starr snapped a photo of some high school students who had skipped class to see The Beatles during their first trip to the US. 50 years later the group reunited and recreated the photo. - Ht Reddit
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Robot Bar - 1969 - by Borghesani - ht Chip Warfield
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The Blackfriars pub, London in the 1980s
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Nancy by Ernie Bushmiller (August 23, 1905 โ€“ August 15, 1982)
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Cher & The Osmonds sing Stevie Wonder
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Mark Twain holds Nikola Tesla's vacuum lamp, powered by a loop of wire that gets electromagnetic energy from a Tesla coil - 1894. Tesla's can be seen in the background
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A radiator in a Victorian house with bread warmer built in
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Imperial passport of Kublai Khan. It reads:"I am the emissary of the Khan. If you defy me, you die." From 1240 AD.
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Sending an email with an acoustic coupler at a payphone in the early 1980s.
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Sandwiches for sale, London 1972
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The Blackfriars pub on Queen Victoria Street, London, back in 1966.
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The London Bus Driverโ€™s Prayer by Ian Dury Our Driver Who art in Hendon Holloway be Thy name Thy Kingston come Thy Wimbledon In Erith as it is in Hendon Give us this day our Berkhampstead And forgive us our Westminsters As we forgive those who Westminster against us
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The only photo of a Concorde flying at Mach 2 taken by Adrian Meredith from an RAF Tornado attack fighter over the Irish Sea in April 1985.
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London from the 660 Trolleybus, NW2 - 1957
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August 7, 1974 - Philippe Petit walks the tightrope between the World Trade Centerโ€™s twin towers #nyc
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The Statue of Liberty under Construction, 1884
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Groucho Marx, 70, dancing with Diana Ross, 22-year-old lead singer of The Supremes at actor-singer Bobby Darin's Bel-Air home in Los Angeles on August 19, 1966. - AP
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Beatles Christmas ornaments, Italy, 1964.
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Playmobil does Freddie Mercury & Queen
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Art Deco radio, Air-King Products, 1933, made of Plaskon
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Woman and Horse, 1899, by French photographer Fรฉlix Thiollier
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A Girl and her toad enter a pet contest in Venice Beach - California - 1936
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Itโ€™s Balaclava weather in 1963
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Heather Parisi sings Maniac - with added dancing - 1984
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In 1974, the mummy of Ramesses II was transported to special laboratories in France, to assist in preserving its condition. In accordance with French law, Egypt issued the dead ruler with a passport.
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A teenager at an Elvis Presley concert at the Philadelphia Arena on April 6, 1957
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The Ghost Ship - c. 1900 (photographer unknown)
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Antwerp, Belgium - A child and their dog -by Batist Vermeulen
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December 29, 1964: STAR TREKโ€™s original eleven-foot Enterprise parked outside Volmer Jensenโ€™s Production Models Shop in Burbank, California.
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Daleks tried to board a London bus at Shepherd's Bush Green December 1963
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Tyrolean choir performing Austrian composer Franz Mikaโ€™s โ€˜A Gaudi Muss Seinโ€™ - 1982
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Isetta Zip - 1953
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This is the exact moment Harold Whittles, a five-year-old boy who was born deaf, hears sound for the first time - by photographer Jack Bradley, 1974
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A lighthouse keeper and his cat - 1919
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The 1980s Techno Two-Step
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In February 1943 Nazis captured 17-year-old Serbian Lepa Radiฤ‡. The Nazis tied a rope around the teenage figher's neck and offered her a way out. All she has to do is reveal her comrades' and leaders' identities. Lepa responded: โ€œYou will know them when they come to avenge me.โ€
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Steve Wozniak. Apple I. 1976.
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Alan Rickman, 18 - at school 1964.
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Michelangelo's David encased in bricks to prevent damage from bombs during World War 2
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These are knife grinders in France, circa 1902. They worked lying down to save their backs and had dogs sit on their legs for warmth.
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Melted and damaged wax figures after fire at Madame Tussaud's wax museum in London, 1925
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Stairs at Montmartre 1936 by Brassai .
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The Encyclopedia of Sandwiches
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Victorian Era Radiator with Bread warmer
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Wilfred Brambell in 1971
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Claude Monet with his wife Alice Hoschedรฉ, Venice, Italy, 1908
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Natalie Wood in a Ukrainian national dress, 1960. She was botn Natalia Zakharenko in San Francisco to immigrant parents. Her parents were from Kharkiv, Ukraine.
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โ€˜The Chopper-styled Tomahawkโ€™ - the bike that accounted for the loss of more front teeth than any other - England, 1970s
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Soda cans produced between 1930s to 1970s.
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Sun Ra pictured on location in Oakland for the film ''Space is the Place'', 1972.
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The children who were the voices of Peanuts in the 1960s.
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A 1969 indoor swimming pool by the Danish designer Verner Panton for the Spiegel publishing house in Hamburg, Germany. Panton Design, Base
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London in 1969
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A Drunken Man In Top Hat And Tails Clings To A Lamp-Post in London, 1934
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Art Nouveau storefront in Douai designed by Albert Pรจpe - 1906.
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Vintage snapshot of the day
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Snapshot of the Day
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Traffic warden crashes an Ossie Clark fashion shoot on the Fulham Road in 1967.
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Deep Sea Worm Viewed Under An Electron Microscope - itโ€™s a Hydrothermal Vent Polychaete Worm - c. 2018
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Inside a 1955 camper.
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The top of the Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt.
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Saturday Night Out in Harlem, NYC, 1972
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The New York Central Streamliner 'Mercury' passes through Syracuse, New York, 1936
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Lady and her horse on a snowy day in 1899. Photograph by Fรฉlix Thiollier
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My lovely mum and dad in a photo booth circa 1961 Coventry, United Kingdom. Happily married for 51 years until my dad passed away in 2013. - Denise Maguire
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French painter Claude Monet's beautiful kitchen at his house in Giverny, France - designed c. 1883
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Backstage at The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
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Mr and Mrs Hudson outside their Newsagents in Seacroft, Leeds, 1974 - by Peter Mitchell.
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London's Tower Bridge under construction, approx 1888
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The Indian Air Force used elephant helicopters for ceremonial flights during the 1970s
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Carnaby Street Christmas decorations - London 1967.
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Reusable shopping list - 1920s
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The dog that was dressed in a manโ€™s clothes and sat in the garden with a cat on its lap - 1950s
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Detail from a French postcard, 1905
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Sarah Biffen (1784 โ€“ 2 October 1850) was a Victorian English painter born with no arms and only vestigial legs. She taught herself to write, paint, sew, and use scissors with her mouth. This is a self- portrait she painted using her teeth
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The Irritating Gentleman- Bernard Woltze - 1874
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Mary Tyler Moore from The Dick Van Dyke Show set
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Art Deco saucer and cup, Jade Green and Black, 1930-1931 - by Clarice Cliff
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Snapshot of the day
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Woody Guthrie backstage, 1941
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1956 Fridge with built in Radio
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Wimpy Bar was on New Quay Road in Whitby, North Yorkshire, England c.1965
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Polaroid - 1968
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A drive around London's West End in 1959
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Paul Simon playing a folk club in England in 1965
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Angela Luff, 5, sits alone after she was told not to attend the Coronation party because she had Measles. But organisers and doctors relented and said Angela could attend providing she sat away from the other partygoers. Hortensia House, Hortensia Rd, Chelsea, London - 1953
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No country for old men
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Snapshot of the Day - c. 1958
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Debbie Harry of Blondie, Coney Island, NY, 1977 โ€” Bob Gruen
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Dirk Reinartz, NYC, 1974
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Joy Divisionโ€™s Ian Curtis at a Macclesfield Job Centre office party.
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Rare photo of someone smiling in the 19th century, 1894. Portrait of a Native American of the Kiowa tribe
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London Night - Photograph by Harold Burdekin, 1934.
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