“Like almost everyone else, Pat English dreamed of being famous.
Lion Tamer
Series: Archive Fever
Visual essays, photos, and ephemera from youth cultures.
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Loosen up!
The world is your stretching mat! Students at Sangamon State University touch their toes and reach for the sky in Marian Levin’s Movement Class.
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Live at Woodstock
Peace and love, man. What set out to be a 3 day music festival on a dairy farm in upstate New York turned into a defining event in rock and roll history.
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Turkish High School Portraits
Students, Üsküdar High School, Turkey, 1888.
Turkish high school portraits from the 1880’s!
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Baby Bobby
Bobby Fischer was just 13-years-old when he defeated American chess master Donald Byrne in 1956, marking the beginning of an extraordinary but difficult chess career.
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Magdalene Laundries
The Magdalene Laundries were convents for “fallen women” all over Britain, Europe, America, Canada and Australia — the first of which was founded in 1765 in Dublin, Ireland.
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Boy Scout Jamboree
These boots were made for walking! Two Venezuelan boy scouts departed Caracas on January 11, 1935 and walked 25 miles a day for two years in order to make it to the 1937 Boy Scout Jamboree in Washington DC.
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Puerto Rico in Illinois
Students from Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos Puerto Rican High School in Chicago, IL pose in front of a mural.
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Rison Family Pictures
A collection of lovingly worn portraits and snapshots from the Rison Family Photograph collection.
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Rave Rave Rave!
above: a rave flyer from San Francisco, early 1990s.