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Signs Of The Times: The Farmville, Virginia Protests, 1963 - flashbak.com/signs-of-the...
Signs Of The Times: The Farmville, Virginia Protests, 1963 - Flashbak
“We may observe with much sadness and irony that, outside of Africa, south of the Sahara, where education is still a difficult challenge, the only places on earth known not to provide free public educ...
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April 6, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Signs Of The Times: The Farmville, Virginia Protests, 1963 - flashbak.com/signs-of-the...
Terrible Visions of Death And Evil on Alfred Kubin's Journey Back To The Womb - flashbak.com/alfred-kubin...
Terrible Visions of Death And Evil on Alfred Kubin's Journey Back To The Womb - Flashbak
Alfred Kubin created bizarre and horrific art. Humans appear as skeletal, ghost-like creatures or hideously deformed things. They share surreal and hellish landscapes with monsters, vermin and peculia...
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April 5, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Terrible Visions of Death And Evil on Alfred Kubin's Journey Back To The Womb - flashbak.com/alfred-kubin...
'Goldfish Are Wankers': London Graffiti, 1984-1994 - flashbak.com/london-graff...
'Goldfish Are Wankers': London Graffiti, 1984-1994 - Flashbak
Peter Marshall captured London graffiti when he was walking the city with his camera. He took many pictures of graffiti, and this is second instalment from his archive.
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April 1, 2025 at 7:55 AM
'Goldfish Are Wankers': London Graffiti, 1984-1994 - flashbak.com/london-graff...
Glasgow 1978 - An Erotic Odyssey On The Way To The Job Centre - flashbak.com/jos-treen-ta...
Glasgow 1978 - An Erotic Odyssey On The Way To The Job Centre - Flashbak
Architect James Miller designed an entertainment complex in Glasgow’s Renfield Street for Miss Catherine Cranston (1849–1934), better known as the owner of famous tea rooms, in 1916. Cranston’s Cinema...
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March 20, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Glasgow 1978 - An Erotic Odyssey On The Way To The Job Centre - flashbak.com/jos-treen-ta...
Photos of London's Cinemas in the 1980s - Flashbak
Photos of London's Cinemas in the 1980s - Flashbak
They don’t make them like they used to. Not only the films, but the cinemas, too. London was once replete with picture palaces built in Deco and neo-classic fashion in successful bids to stand out on…
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March 20, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Photos of London's Cinemas in the 1980s - Flashbak
New York City In The 1960s - A Photographer's Love story - Flashbak
New York City In The 1960s - A Photographer's Love story - Flashbak
For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that I love – New York City,” she says. ” On a good day, I move with the rhythms of the city and feel…
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March 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
New York City In The 1960s - A Photographer's Love story - Flashbak
23 Before And After Vintage Snapshots - Flashbak
23 Before And After Vintage Snapshots - Flashbak
“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.” — Mark Twain Take a moment to look at the photo above. We don’t know Maureen. She’s the subject of a pair of…
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March 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM
23 Before And After Vintage Snapshots - Flashbak
Free Cannabis on Speakers Corner, September 2000 - Flashbak
Free Cannabis on Speakers Corner, September 2000 - Flashbak
“I believe I have the birthright to cultivate and use the cannabis plant for all its uses. I have used all the substances listed, with the possible exception of the MDMA (ecstasy), in a shamanic…
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March 19, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Free Cannabis on Speakers Corner, September 2000 - Flashbak
Daido Moriyama (Japanese, b. 1938)
Ebina, Kanagawa
1969
From A Hunter
Gelatin silver print
Ebina, Kanagawa
1969
From A Hunter
Gelatin silver print
March 18, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Daido Moriyama (Japanese, b. 1938)
Ebina, Kanagawa
1969
From A Hunter
Gelatin silver print
Ebina, Kanagawa
1969
From A Hunter
Gelatin silver print
Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book - Flashbak
Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book - Flashbak
The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest medieval conventions, sometimes depicted in water colour with fantastic elements such as human…
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March 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book - Flashbak
Architect Carlo Mollino's Secret Stash of Erotic Polaroids (NSFW) - Flashbak
Architect Carlo Mollino's Secret Stash of Erotic Polaroids (NSFW) - Flashbak
After Italian architect and designer Carlo Mollino died in 1973, a large secret stash of erotic Polaroids were uncovered among his personal effects.
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March 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Architect Carlo Mollino's Secret Stash of Erotic Polaroids (NSFW) - Flashbak
Zsa Zsa Gabor and Buster Keaton in 1959
March 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Zsa Zsa Gabor and Buster Keaton in 1959
A Day Out in London on the 14th November 1987 - Flashbak
A Day Out in London on the 14th November 1987 - Flashbak
On 14 November 1987, Peter Hancox, was on a trip to London. “The photos I took on that day include some of the exhibits at Madame Tussaud’s and show how famous people 38 years ago are maybe a little…
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March 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
A Day Out in London on the 14th November 1987 - Flashbak
Yokai Horrors From The 18th Century Bakemono Zukushi Scroll - Flashbak
Yokai Horrors From The 18th Century Bakemono Zukushi Scroll - Flashbak
You could cut this 18th Century Japanese scroll into neat squares and use the 24 images for a game of Guess Who? – Yokai. Does yours have one eye..? Does yours have teeth..? Does yours eat raw human…
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March 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Yokai Horrors From The 18th Century Bakemono Zukushi Scroll - Flashbak
The Case of the Curiously Absent French Fries and Other Adverts of '74 - Flashbak
The Case of the Curiously Absent French Fries and Other Adverts of '74 - Flashbak
Ahhh. Remember when credit cards were for emergencies?
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March 17, 2025 at 11:48 AM
The Case of the Curiously Absent French Fries and Other Adverts of '74 - Flashbak
The Lust Filled Pages of Archie Comics in the 1970s - Flashbak
The Lust Filled Pages of Archie Comics in the 1970s - Flashbak
Anyone would agree, Archie comics are a fairly wholesome, squeaky clean read. They’re fun for a laugh, but would never offer anything edgy or risqué, right? Think again
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March 16, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The Lust Filled Pages of Archie Comics in the 1970s - Flashbak
The Fine Art of Yearbook Defacing - Flashbak
The Fine Art of Yearbook Defacing - Flashbak
Whoever the mysterious graffiti firebrand is, I'd love to give him a high-five for his wonderfully hilarious douchebaggery littering nearly every page.
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March 16, 2025 at 11:48 AM
The Fine Art of Yearbook Defacing - Flashbak
On the Walls in the 1970s: Pictures of the Poster Craze - Flashbak
On the Walls in the 1970s: Pictures of the Poster Craze - Flashbak
In the 1950s, kids’ bedroom walls were pretty sparse. You might find a framed picture of a flower or a creepy clown, but nothing really making a statement or – god forbid – even remotely risque. …
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March 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
On the Walls in the 1970s: Pictures of the Poster Craze - Flashbak
Glue-Sniffing Clowns On The Loose! 20 Brilliantly Outrageous True Crime Headlines - Flashbak
Glue-Sniffing Clowns On The Loose! 20 Brilliantly Outrageous True Crime Headlines - Flashbak
IS THERE anything on planet Earth more tasteless and lurid than an a true crime magazine from the 70s and 80s?...
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March 15, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Glue-Sniffing Clowns On The Loose! 20 Brilliantly Outrageous True Crime Headlines - Flashbak
A Look Inside the 1970s Kids' Magazine "Bananas" - Flashbak
A Look Inside the 1970s Kids' Magazine "Bananas" - Flashbak
Most 1970s kids in the US will remember Dynamite magazine, but do you remember its older brother, Bananas? It was a similar scholastic magazine with eye-catching covers featuring familiar 70s pop…
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March 15, 2025 at 11:48 AM
A Look Inside the 1970s Kids' Magazine "Bananas" - Flashbak
More Found Wedding Portraits From 1960s New York (Part 2) - Flashbak
More Found Wedding Portraits From 1960s New York (Part 2) - Flashbak
‘Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further’ ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind Here’s Part 2 of our look at New York wedding photos from a professional…
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March 15, 2025 at 1:40 AM
More Found Wedding Portraits From 1960s New York (Part 2) - Flashbak
The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel, 1565 - Flashbak
The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel, 1565 - Flashbak
Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel - The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel - illustrations by François Desprez
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March 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel, 1565 - Flashbak
Les Malheurs des immortels, 1922: Max Ernst and Paul Éluard's Surreal Collaboration - Flashbak
Les Malheurs des immortels, 1922: Max Ernst and Paul Éluard's Surreal Collaboration - Flashbak
Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by German-American-French artist and founder of the Dada movement Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976). The…
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March 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Les Malheurs des immortels, 1922: Max Ernst and Paul Éluard's Surreal Collaboration - Flashbak
Aubrey Beardsley's Illustrations for Oscar Wilde's 'Salome' - Flashbak
Aubrey Beardsley's Illustrations for Oscar Wilde's 'Salome' - Flashbak
Aubrey Beardsley’s artistic career began with schoolboy doodles in the margins of text books and ended in near poverty drawing erotica for private collectors. In between Beardsley was a phenomenon…
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March 14, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Aubrey Beardsley's Illustrations for Oscar Wilde's 'Salome' - Flashbak