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Saturday July 14, 2012

Rare Photos: One Of Woody Guthrie's Last Shows

A rare set of 1950's photographs show one of Woody Guthrie's last performances before his decline with Huntington's disease. Leonard Rosenberg/Music Inn/Barber Family hide caption

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Rare Photos: One Of Woody Guthrie's Last Shows

July 14, 2012 • Before the folk legend succumbed to Huntington's disease, he performed an informal concert in a remarkable place with Pete Seeger and Rev. Gary Davis.

Saturday February 4, 2012

Vintage View: 1920s Pacific Northwest In Color

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Vintage View: 1920s Pacific Northwest In Color

February 4, 2012 • Back in the day, the closest thing to Photoshop involved paint and a negative. These colorful lantern slides show Washington State like you've never seen it.

Friday October 28, 2011

Sarah Lipscomb

Your Halloween Photos Are Creepy

October 28, 2011 • Earlier in October we asked you to submit vintage Halloween photos. Here's what we received.

Saturday October 8, 2011

Calling All Costumes: Dig Up Your Old Halloween Photos!

John F. Kennedy and Halloween visitors to the Oval Office, 1963

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Calling All Costumes: Dig Up Your Old Halloween Photos!

October 8, 2011 • We're looking for the most delightful, organically surreal and highly original costumes in history. Send us yours!

Sunday September 4, 2011

Found In The Archives: Japan's Roaring Rockabilly Scene

September 4, 2011 • A charming clip from the archives shows a small slice of the early Japanese rock scene.

Monday August 1, 2011

Photos: Believe It Or Not, Ripley's Rich History

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Photos: Believe It Or Not, Ripley's Rich History

August 1, 2011 • Robert Ripley is reputed to have received more mail than any president. Whether or not that's true, artifacts from The Ripley Archives show just how abundant — and intriguing — his mail was.

Friday July 8, 2011

Archival Video: Underwater Space Odyssey

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Archival Video: Underwater Space Odyssey

July 8, 2011 • Vintage NASA footage shows the ethereal experience of training for zero gravity in a giant pool.

Wednesday June 1, 2011

Found In The Archives: America's Unsettling Early Eugenics Movement

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Found In The Archives: America's Unsettling Early Eugenics Movement

June 1, 2011 • A small collection of photos is one of the few existing visual reminders of the American eugenics movement.

Tuesday May 3, 2011

National Archives

Found In The Archives: An Intentional Plane Crash

May 3, 2011 • Rich Remsberg spends a lot of time digging through archives. This month, he presents one of his favorite mysterious video clips.

Friday April 1, 2011

Frontier Utah As Seen By Mormon Bishop, Documentary Photographer

April 1, 2011 • Unlike most early documentary photographers of the American West, George Edward Anderson was also a Mormon bishop. His photos offer a unique view of life in Utah at the turn of the 20th century.

Tuesday March 1, 2011

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Found In The Archives: The Floating, French Magnetic Egg Cooker

March 1, 2011 • Sleek modernity meets utter pointlessness in a 1950s invention.

Tuesday February 1, 2011

American Museum of Natural History

Found In The Archives: 'Modern' Elephant Taxidermy

February 1, 2011 • A 1927 silent film from the Library of Congress shows the unsettling reconstruction of an elephant.

Monday January 3, 2011

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Found In the Archives: Claud Thornton's Traveling Crime Museum

January 3, 2011 • Photographs from the early 1940s show a traveling, creepy "crime museum" of papier-mache effigies and ephemera.

Wednesday December 1, 2010

Found In The Archives: Military LSD Testing

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Found In The Archives

Found In The Archives: Military LSD Testing

December 1, 2010 • "Found in the Archives," Picture Show miniseries, features unusual archival material, found and curated by archive researcher Rich Remsberg. The first installment: an unsettling video of 1960s military LSD testing.