Category Archives: vintage

Bollywood Vintage Posters

Posted on January 21, 2008 by

Almost a year ago I blogged about two galleries of posters at The hot spot: Hand Painted Horror Movie Posters of India & Pakistan and Bollywood Vintage Posters – Pre 1960′s. Now it’s time to explore the other galleries of … Continue reading →

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Australian fiction

Posted on January 20, 2008 by

Australian fiction was an exhibition of material from the Australian Monash University Library Rare Books Collection. A selection of novels and books of short stories by over one hundred writers, the exhibition covers our national output of fiction from 1845 … Continue reading →

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Flickr announces The Commons

Posted on January 17, 2008 by

Flickr Blog announced The Commons: a pilot project created in partnership with The Library of Congress.The Library team contributed choosing around 1500 photos from their most popular collections to share on Flickr. The result is presented in two incredible photosets: … Continue reading →

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Circus by Valery Alffevsky

Posted on January 17, 2008 by

This Russian Livejournal page has a serious of beautiful illustrations from the book “Circus”, published in 1966 and illustrated by the soviet painter Valery Alffevsky. Alffevsky studied in Vkhutemas, a famous school of Russian Avant-garde. I don’t know much about … Continue reading →

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1966′s Batman Film Stills

Posted on October 1, 2007 by

The list of Batman films I watched doesn’t include the 1966 Batman. The film directed by Leslie H. Martinson was filmed at the end of the first season of 1960′s Batman TV series. The LiveJournal page film_stills: Batman: The Movie … Continue reading →

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60′s & 70′s Asian Pop Record Covers

Posted on October 1, 2007 by

60′s & 70′s Asian Pop Record Covers Photo Gallery with tons of covers uploaded by David Greenfield. This gallery contains scans of my ever-growing collection of rare 60′s and 70′s Asian pop singles. I mainly collect Singaporean titles, but I … Continue reading →

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Friday Cat Blogging Stuff

Posted on September 28, 2007 by

Here are my collection of links with cats, specially saved to blog today. And before you run away complaining “Oh no, cat pictures!”, take a look on the images and their descriptions. They have cats, of course, but they aren’t … Continue reading →

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Les Maîtres de L’affiche

Posted on September 25, 2007 by Bibi

One more stunning collection from The New York Public Library: Les maîtres de l’affiche. Les Maîtres de L’affiche (The posters) was a French “monthly publication with reproductions of the most beautiful illustrated posters of the great artists, French and foreign, … Continue reading →

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Miss Magnolia Thunderpussy

Posted on September 20, 2007 by

There are some crazy users on Flickr, and crazy means crazy in the best possible way, who like to share vintage images. Miss Magnolia Thunderpussy likes to share “some” stuff: almost six thousand of images divided in 90 sets and … Continue reading →

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Vintage Matchbook Labels

Posted on September 19, 2007 by

A very coloured collection of Vintage Matchbook Labels from the 1950s and 1960s, from East Europe: Czech, Hungary and Estonia. The Flickr set was created by Linzie Hunter, who had a hard work, “painstakingly boring” work as she said, of … Continue reading →

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