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I‘m not used to seeing segregated America in pretty pastels. Typically, the civil rights photography we look at is in black & white and instantly disturbing. But these rare pictures, discovered after the photographer’s death at the bottom of an old storage box, wrapped in paper and masking tape and marked, “Segregation Series,” are unlike any [...]
The answer is yes, in 1959 no less– pre-birth control and pre-Civil Rights Acts for equal employment opportunity. This is a photograph of Mrs. Helen Mann, a striking employee of the RCA and holder of two master’s degrees in physics. If she wasn’t helping the air force to prepare complicated test data for computer analysis, [...]
This weekend, my boyfriend pulled out not one, not two but three grays he noticed glistening in the
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The first post seems to have tickled your fancy, so over the past month I’ve been collecting
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I had always thought Sophia’s disapproving look in this iconic photograph taken by Delmar
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I came across the fantastic photograph below and knew there had to be more preserved sassy moments
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I had often seen the above image floating around on the internet on various Tumblrs and always
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I‘m not used to seeing segregated America in pretty pastels. Typically, the civil rights
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I stumbled upon a great little website dedicated to collecting old pin-ups and found they had a
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Today I learned there’s a skateboarding school in Afghanistan where 40% of its students are
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These women are the last of their kind. In their floral wetsuits, they fill their lungs with air
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In the name of all things stupid, Sony France thought it would be a great idea to market the
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Skipper was launched by Mattel in 1964 as Barbie’s kid sister. Ten years later, Mattel
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On my internet travels today, I came across an old American comic genre for young newlyweds. Young
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Before Spanx, there was the girdle (not to be confused with the corset). The buttock, stomach,
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Cosmopolitan is and always has been provocative women’s magazine. I remember reading it as a
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