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By: Karen Strike on Friday, November 28, 2025
Highlights From Hardcore Crafts, 1976
In Hardcore Crafts, Nancy Bruning Levine show us sex-inspired objects made from a large range of materials
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November 29, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Blowing Tobacco Smoke Up The Bum And Other Ways To Return The Dead To Life, 1787
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In 1787, the Humane Society advised members that blowing tobacco smoke up the victim's bum could resuscitate "persons apparently dead from drowning".

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Blowing Tobacco Smoke Up The Bum And Other Ways To Return The Dead To Life, 1787 - Flashbak
In 1787, the Humane Society said that blowing tobacco smoke up their bum could resuscitate "persons apparently dead from drowning".
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November 21, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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By: Karen Strike on Sunday, November 2, 2025
Old But Not Forgotten: Old Couple Find Fun Wearing Clothes Left At Their Laundry
In the project Want Show Was Young, an old Taiwanese couple find joy in wearing clothes left behind in their laundry.
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November 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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By: Karen Strike on Saturday, October 25, 2025
Ehon Mizu Ya Sora: A Forerunner of Modern Manga, 1780
Ehon mizu ya sora is a work by Nichosai, a painter of the mid-Edo period. It is a boldly stylized depiction of kabuki actors on stage.
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October 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Parte 2 de #Enigmadomedo está no ar!

Abri a tranca, passei reto do flashbak do Veríssimo e fui direto pro subsolo (só pq eu tava maluca pra saber o que tinha ali).

Lembrando que tô jogando no Modo Detetive e fugindo de spoiler que nem o cascão da água.

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Oh, You Shouldn't Have: The Joy of Gift-Getting In 25 Brilliant Found Photos - Flashbak
Oh, You Shouldn't Have: The Joy of Gift-Getting In 25 Brilliant Found Photos - Flashbak
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God’s gift, that’s why we call it the present” – Joan Rivers     “It’s more blessed to give than receive,” said someone or other in the Bible. …
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December 24, 2024 at 5:57 AM
Spaghetti junction. Engineer Karen Leadlay working on analog computers in the space division of General Dynamics, 1964.
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January 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Mazes and Labyrinths: An Illustrated History (1922) - Flashbak
Mazes and Labyrinths: An Illustrated History (1922) - Flashbak
“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” – Philip K. Dick, VALIS     William H. Matthews leads us through his 1922 book Mazes and Labyrinths…
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December 27, 2024 at 2:41 PM
Claude Cahun - How The Anti-Nazi Fighter's Surreal Art Outwitted The Germans - Flashbak
Claude Cahun - How The Anti-Nazi Fighter's Surreal Art Outwitted The Germans - Flashbak
During World War 2, French-Jewish artist Claude Cahun and her life partner and step-sister, the fashion designer and illustrator Marcel Moore, lived on the island of Jersey, a self-governing Crown…
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December 3, 2024 at 6:30 AM
Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards - Flashbak
Animals Behaving Horribly On Vintage Christmas Cards - Flashbak
The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small…
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December 17, 2024 at 8:09 PM
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
Harold Lloyd's Amazing Christmas Tree - Flashbak
Harold Lloyd's Amazing Christmas Tree - Flashbak
For American actor Harold Lloyd (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) Christmas was the time to illuminate his home in Beverly Hills, California, with a magnificent tree. His granddaughter Suzanne says…
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December 26, 2024 at 7:42 PM
High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW) - Flashbak
High-Class Erotic Illustrations by Édouard-Henri Avril (NSFW) - Flashbak
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, pornography was the preserve of the well to do. Smut was published in  shot-run books of a couple of hundred copies. These books were full of…
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February 21, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Oh, he's ALWAYS been an asshole, you say?

'Musically Incompetent': A 17-Year-Old Morrissey Reviews The Ramones in 1976 - Flashbak
'Musically Incompetent': A 17-Year-Old Morrissey Reviews The Ramones in 1976 - Flashbak
In 1976, the signer Morrissey wrote this letter about New York punk band The Ramones to Melody Maker magazine.
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November 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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By: Karen Strike on Monday, November 24, 2025
Art Deco Illustrations from Modes et Manières d’Aujourd’hui, 1912-1914
Modes et Manières d'Aujourd'hui paired the work of a single artist with a single author in the manner of an artist book.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Damascus, Syria, 1970s.
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January 3, 2025 at 9:25 PM
The Unseen Eye Is Watching You - Godfrey Frankel's Photos of New York City in 1947 - Flashbak
The Unseen Eye Is Watching You - Godfrey Frankel's Photos of New York City in 1947 - Flashbak
Godfrey Frankel (1912-1995) was a member of the New York City Photo League. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Frankel graduated from Ohio State University in 1935 and worked for the Lorain Journal newspaper…
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December 29, 2024 at 11:48 AM
Snapshots of Kids Bike Jumping in the 1970s - Flashbak https://flashbak.com/snapshots-of-kids-bike-jumping-in-the-1970s-476580/
Damals waren Helikopter-Eltern noch nicht erfunden … (Typ auf der Treppe kuckt tiefenentspannt zu)

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July 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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By: Albert on Sunday, October 12, 2025
Saved: My Picture World – Diane Keaton’s Autobiographical Scrapbook
Oscar-winning actress Diane Keaton kept a cabinet of saved and found photographic curiosities. Her images were published in a scrapbook.
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October 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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By: Karen Strike on Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Alexandr Zhitomirsky’s Anti-Nazi and Anti-American Photomontages For The Soviet Union Propaganda Machine
Aleksandr Zhitomirsky photomontages were airdropped on German troops during World War II and satirised American politics and finance.
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December 11, 2025 at 12:52 PM
People of London's Maida Vale the 1970s and early 1980s - Flashbak
People of London's Maida Vale the 1970s and early 1980s - Flashbak
Bristol Gardens runs between Formosa Street and Clifton Villas and in London’s Maida Vale. Artist and photographer Sheila Burnett has not longed moved to the area when she began to take pictures of…
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January 20, 2025 at 1:55 PM
In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal - Flashbak
In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal - Flashbak
% In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the city's financial district and Brick…
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December 21, 2024 at 11:48 AM