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How a Telephone Switchboard Works — 1911

  • by High Shrink
  • Posted on January 18, 2019
  • 1910s

Interested in a step-by-step illustrated tutorial on how a telephone call was completed in 1911, when operators were needed to place all calls? Look no further! Click to read more…

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Merry Christmas from Thelma Todd and Her Giant Sombrero

  • by High Shrink
  • Posted on December 23, 2018December 23, 2018
  • 1930s

Hollywood stars have always had to do silly things for the sake of publicity….

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Myrna Loy: “I’m a Helpless Prisoner!” — 1930

  • by High Shrink
  • Posted on December 3, 2017
  • Advertising

Experience the sheer giddiness of an exclamation-mark-filled 1930 ad for cosmetics, “a whole ensemble of gay toiletries!”

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“Vampire a la Mode” — 1928

  • by High Shrink
  • Posted on July 18, 2017October 21, 2017
  • 1920s

Movie poster for a saucy, pre-code spoof of late-’20s Hollywood. “Big-shots,” look out.

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Perkins Windmill Couture — 1890s

  • by High Shrink
  • Posted on July 17, 2017September 26, 2018
  • 1890s

Miss Corinne Baker in her eye-popping windmill dress — perfect from the tip of her kooky hat to the bottom of her windmill-blade skirt. And everything else in between. See the full-length photo inside.

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The Bootlegger With the Tin Bustle — 1886

  • by High Shrink
  • Posted on July 16, 2017October 21, 2017
  • 1880s

Read about the woman who smuggled Cuban rum through U.S. Customs in a hollowed-out undergarment.

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