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In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, kids were used to promote cigarettes, firearms, drugs and much more. Many of the ads — which feat... -
We all love our grandparents, but we rarely think of their lives when they were young. Some of them have been through much and have seen war... -
Now it’s common practice for Hollywood’s major studios to release not only photos from behind the scenes, but entire, detailed making of doc... -
During the Vietnam War, a whole sex industry sprung up around American servicemembers. Prostitutes would congregate at bars where service me... -
For Elvis Presley, childhood and adolescence were difficult and often involved working to help the family with finances. He picked up music ... -
On April 24, 1982, actress Jane Fonda revolutionized the fitness world with her first Jane Fonda Workout video . In the 1980s, aerobics was ... -
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Back in the day, there were jobs to do just about everything. You could be paid to reset the pins at a bowling alley or knock on people’s wi... -
Vintage Portraits of Algerian Women Who Were Forced to Remove Their Veils to be Photographed in 1960In 1960, Marc Garanger, a 25-year-old draftee who had already been photographing professionally for ten years, landed in Kabylia, in the sma... -
On Oct. 13, 1972, a Uruguayan air force plane, carrying the Old Christians Club rugby team, crashed in the Andes mountains of Chile. Facing ... -
Photos of partying drag queens and their friends taken from the late-50s through the late-60s, recently emerged on a website called Private ...