There’s just as much action on the sidelines as there is on the field: cheerleaders flying high, band marching in unison, fans roaring in the stands and parents greeting sons post game time.
On the Sidelines
Series: Archive Fever
Visual essays, photos, and ephemera from youth cultures.
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Alessandra Sanguinetti, Adolescence in Maipu
Alessandra Sanguinetti’s photographic series The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and The Enigmatic Meaning of Their Dreams, follows Guille and Belinda, cousins living on their family farm in Maipu, Argentina (300 kilometers away from Buenos Aires) on the cusp of adolescence.
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Corporal Yelizaveta Feodorovna Mironova
Red Corporal Yelizaveta Feodorovna Mironova, 255th Marine Brigade Black Sea Fleet of Novorossiysk, was a teenage sniper.
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Freedom Riders’ Mugshots
The Freedom Riders were activists who made invaluable contributions to the progress of the civil rights movement in America by sitting illegally in segregated public transport.
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The First Russian Beauty Pageant
There were the Soviet Beauty Queens and then there were the Russian Beauty Queens.
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Navy Fav’s
“Sailors, at the constant mercy of the elements, often feel the need for religious images on their bodies to appease the angry powers that caused storms and drowning far from home.”
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Brave Noor-Un-Nisa Inayat Khan
Noor Inayat Khan was the first female radio operator to be sent into occupied France during WWII.
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Italian Partisans, WWII
Resistenza partigiana, Partisan Resistance, were pro-Allied Italians during WWII.
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Rebel Heartthrob: Sal Mineo
“[Director] Ray was aware of Dean’s bisexuality and encouraged the actor to use it in certain scenes.
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Olga Korbut, Soviet Gymnast
“She was 85 pounds of pigtailed détente, flipping her way into the American consciousness.”