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L’Illustration 1897
What looks like the cover of the French quality magazine L’Illustration’s Christmas edition from 1897 by Alphonse Mucha. I have their Christmas edition from 1905 and it is a marvel in printing...
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Hearst’s International – December Edition
Another illustration though very atypical by the great Alphonse Mucha Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: Alphonse Mucha, Hearst’s International
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Brigitte Lahaie, French Radio Talk Show Host, Actress And Former Pornographic...
Brigitte Lahaie (born on 12 October 1955) is a radio talk show host, actress and former pornographic actress from France. She began her career at age 15 with a minor role in Africa Erotica (1970) and...
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NSU Prinz 30
The first post war NSU car appeared in 1957 accompanied by the advertising slogan "Fahre Prinz und Du bist Koenig" ("Drive a Prince and you’re a king") The first generation Prinz was available with a...
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Émile Joachim Constant Puyo – French Photographer
Émile Joachim Constant Puyo (November 12, 1857 – October 6, 1933) was a French photographer, active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As the leading advocate of the Pictorialist movement in...
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Stefania Casini–Italian Actress, Director And Journalist
After graduating in Architecture, Stefania began a career in acting and worked with Pietro Germi, Bernardo Bertolucci, Peter Greenaway and Dario Argento. She moved to New York in the late 70s, where...
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Mamie Van Doren – “Rollin’ Stone”
Mamie said she tried to shake her hips like Elvis in this scene where she peels off her nylons and starts singin’! – From Untamed Youth (1957) Video and text found at “A l’intérieur du Jardin Secret”...
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First-Ever Elvis Presley Illuminated Porcelain Tree
It would be nice if it was the last as well – Have e very tacky Christmas everyone – Ted Filed under: Tackieness Tagged: Elvis Presley, Porcelain
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La Casera Traditional Spanish Soft Drink
La Casera is a traditional Spanish brand of soda. It is one of the most popular soft drinks in Spain. It is a sweet fizzy drink known in Spanish-speaking countries as gaseosa. It can be served as a...
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Bathing Suit Fashions – Early 1930s
Vintage large-format carbro color print. The color carbro process is one of the most stable processes for color photography and the colors do not fade. This print was probably made for a fashion...
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Main “Musts” For Drawing The Female Figure
A funny and talented man, Jefferson Machamer was that rare comic artist who was not only a fine gag, gam and garter artist…he was successful out of the basement! THIS close to be recognized as a REAL...
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The Schneider Trophy Contest 1929
Official Programme Cover A stirring front cover from the 1929 Schneider Trophy Contest souvenir programme that was produced by Gale & Polden (a major publisher of thing military in Aldershot) on...
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Kyūdō – Way Of The Bow
Kyudo or Kyūdō (弓道?), literally meaning "way of the bow", is the Japanese art of archery. It is a modern Japanese martial art (gendai budō) and practitioners are known as kyudoka (弓道家?). It is...
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Zündapp Janus
Zündapp Janus was the name of a microcar model made by Zündapp, as well as the as the only car ever made by Zundapp. in Germany between 1957 and 1958. Originally Zündapp made motorcycles, but in 1954...
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Lorna Maitland – Sexploitation Star
Lorna Maitland (born November 19, 1943) is a film actress noted mostly for her large-breasted figure and appearances in three Russ Meyer films: Lorna, Mudhoney and Mondo Topless. Her given name is...
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Titanic And Olympic In Belfast
Titanic & Olympic in Belfast, March 1912 – Both Titanic (left) & Olympic were to meet for the last time. Olympic had lost a propeller, returning to Belfast for repairs. Text & image found...
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William Michael Wenzel–American Cartoonist
William Michael Wenzel (22 January 1918 – 12 May 1987) was an American cartoonist best known as a widely published good girl artist for men’s magazines. Biography Bill Wenzel was born in Irvington, New...
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Santa Surfing
I admit that he’s got his work cut out for him round the 24th, but on the other hand that fat sod works only one day a year – Ted Filed under: Humour Tagged: Santa
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The Illustrated London News
The Illustrated London News was the world’s first illustrated weekly newspaper; the first issue appeared on Saturday 14 May 1842. It was published weekly until 1971 and then increasingly less...
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