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Star Wars Action Figures Production Line Circa 1978

Star Wars toys production line at the Kenner Factory circa 1978. Star Wars toys production line at the Kenner Factory circa 1978. These cracking pictures were taken from the factory in Cincinnati, who...

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London Night in The 1930′s

These atmospheric images of London streets in the 1930s, before the Blitz, before the clean air act, before sodium lighting. It was a city of gloomy back streets lit by dim lamps, with forbidding...

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The Muppet Movie 1978 – On The Set!

Flickr user BATMAN4OZ has recently uploaded this awesome collection of photos he took while working on the set of The Muppets movie, way back in 1978. All the puppets are there, including Fozzy Bear...

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NYC Past

New York has been arguably one of the most photogenic destinations on earth ever since photography allowed it to be. Which is why when we saw NYC Past we got all excited in the brain space. This...

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Early McDonald’s menus

McDonald’s started out as McDonald’s Bar-B-Q in San Bernardino, CA in 1940. Here’s a copy of the menu from that time. The original McDonald’s served potato chips and pie, which were swapped out for...

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Vintage VHS adverts

Shops that still sell tape cassettes are very few and far between these days, which means the tape is now more or less an obsolete format. The first mass produced Cassettes were made and sold in...

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New York City’s Street-life from 1968-1972 by Paul McDonough

Photographer Paul McDonough has a knack for catching passing, off-kilter incongruities on the New York City streets. He arrived in the city in 1967 and started taking photographs of unique moments...

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Documerica

In 1970, the Environmental Protection Agency was born. The next year, the agency began one of its most uniquely ambitious initiatives: Documerica, a photography project spanning from 1971 to 1977 that...

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70s & 80s Rock Albums Imagined as Vintage Book Sets

London designer Standard Designs has converted a number of rock albums from the 70s and 80s into imaginary sets of vintage books for his ingenious music-themed print series. Each song in an album is...

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Boxing in the early 20th century

Boxing has fallen a long way over the past 100 years. Back when men were men, boxing matches were among the most celebrated and attended sporting events across America. The Library of Congress has a...

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Relics by Robert Moran

As the pace of invention accelerates, more and more objects are cast into the annals of history. Some to be held up at as milestones in man’s ongoing technological quest for quicker, smarter, and...

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