BAEDEKERS AND BEASTIES

“All these books are published in Heaven.” -Allen Ginsberg

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THE LARGEST DOLL!

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Elizabeth Feodorovna painting.

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Ingrid Bergman in 1956.

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Two-fisted tales of the old west

(Robert. W. Kelley. n.d.)

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1950-File Photo Digital Archive on Flickr.

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Morris, Edmund Montague, Canadian, 1871 - 1913 Girls in a Poppy Field c. 1896 Oil on canvas Overall: 69.2 x 56.5 cm (27 1/4 x 22 1/4 in.) Gift of Sir Edmund Walker, Toronto, 1918 © 2015 Art Gallery of Ontario

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Everything about this photo says, “You have been judged and found wanting.”

(Nat Farbman. 1961)

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Stuart Brisley, Beneath Dignity (1977)

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One of the first canned beer machines being tested out in London, June 1937. Photo by Harry Todd

via reddit

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GOGH, Vincent van Public Park with Weeping Willow: The Poet’s Garden I September 1888, Arles Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm Art Institute, Chicago

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Orson and Rita

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Debbie Starr

One of the younger Striptease siblings of her more-famous sister: Blaze Starr..  Debbie would eventually appear in the 1961 film: ‘SCANTY PANTIES’; featuring dancers: Virginia Bell and Electrique..

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1930 No title.

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N C Wyeth

'You shall have homes' (Illustration for McCalls)

1928

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Canadian crowd greeting President and Jacqueline Kennedy

(Paul Schutzer. 1961)