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Flashbak is a digital collection of thousands of wonderful pictures, stories, letters, sounds and movies from across the past, with one aim - to make the past come alive. More at www.flashbak.com. Shop: www.flashbakshop.com

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Wally Funk, the Oldest Woman in Space, Almost Became the First Woman in Space in 1961 - Flashbak

Funk began her preparations for space flight in 1961 as part of group of 13 women pilots called FLATS (First Lady Astronaut Trainees).

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The Fukushima Toilet Death Mystery, 1989 - Flashbak

On February 28, 1989, a teacher working at an elementary school in a small village near Fukushima spotted a foot in her toilet

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Sergei Eisenstein's Erotic Drawings (NSFW) - Flashbak

Sergei Eisenstein (10 January 1898 – 11 February 1948) is best known for his films, including Strike (1925), the surreal and savage October (1928), Ivan the Terrible (1944) and his stunning paean to revolution Battleship Potemkin (1925).he also left behind a cache of his erotic art. Eisenstein was gay and bursting to get out … Continue reading "Sergei Eisenstein’s Erotic Drawings (NSFW)"

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Punk: Nothing to Lose In the 1970s - Flashbak

These pictures were part of the exhibition Nothing to lose: The punk photographs of Caroline Coon at The Centre for British Photography

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Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923 - Flashbak

To promote their first major exhibition, members of Germany's Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards.

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Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923 - Flashbak

To promote their first major exhibition, members of Germany's Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards.

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El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928 - Flashbak

At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s Commissar of Enlightenment, Anatolii Lunacharskii, would send overseas to show the … Continue reading "El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928"

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Sein Kampf: 41 Scathing Anti-Nazi Cartoons by Stanisław Dobrzyński, 1944 - Flashbak

These images are from Sein Kampf (His Struggle), a 1944 collection of cartoons by Stanisław Dobrzyński (1897 to 1949).

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Edward Bawden: Life in an English Village, 1949 - Flashbak

Life in an English Village, published by King Penguin Books in 1949, was illustrated with 16 watercolour plates by Edward Bawden

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The Unseen Archive of Idi Amin Photographs - Flashbak

Highlights from the thousands of lost photos of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin taken by his platoon of photographers

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Nameneko Cats From the 1980s - Flashbak

Nameneko was 1980s fad for dressing cats and kittens up as tough guys and girls and having them pose for photos

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Nameneko Cats From the 1980s - Flashbak

Nameneko was 1980s fad for dressing cats and kitters up as tough guys and girls and having them pose for photos

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Cars of Britain in the 1970s - Flashbak

In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of Birmingham, The Black Country, London and Wolverhampton included cars. He took the above picture of the Ford Cortina Mk.1 parked on the roadside on 5th February 1978. It could be seen a allegory of the state of the British … Continue reading "Cars of Britain in the 1970s"

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Chesley Bonestell's Sci-Fi Art of Retro-Future Space - Flashbak

Moving from spectacular buildings to cinematic spectacle, Chesley Bonestell went to work painting backgrounds in Hollywood

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Get Into Films With The Do-It-Yourself Monster Make-Up Handbook by Dick Smith (1965) - Flashbak

In 1965, cool kids got their hands on a special issue of Forrest J. Ackerman's Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine. This issue featured pioneering make-up artist Dick Smith’s Do-It-Yourself Monster Make-Up Handbook.

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Le Monde Physique : Illustrating Scientific Phenomena Beautifully (1881) - Flashbak

In 1881, French journalist Amédée Guillemin (July 5, 1826–January 2, 1893) published his encyclopedia Le monde physique (The Physical World). Guillemin’s opus expanded on his work as a maths teacher and science editor of l’Avenir national (The Nation’s Future). He wrote many book on science, including Le ciel (1866), La lune (1868), and Le soleil (1873), … Continue reading "Le Monde Physique : Illustrating Scientific Phenomena Beautifully (1881)"

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The USA's Stars and Stripes In Found Snapshots - Flashbak

O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave – The Star-Spangled Banner “I have decided to do a post which recognizes that next month our beleaguered country celebrates its 250th birthday. But in a subtle manner,” writes photograph collector Robert E. … Continue reading "The USA’s Stars and Stripes In Found Snapshots"