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1980:
How Jack Nicholson became The Joker

1917:
Life-saving Bible

1960s:
Mini skirts shortened

1800s:
Mini Napoleon

c. 1930s:
Contortionist

1973:
David Bowie playing ping pong in a kimono

c.1970:
VW Beetles at Copacabana

1865:
The Grizzly Bear Chair

1954:
Marilyn Monroe with the Marines in Korea

1940:
Giant Typewriter at the World’s Fair

1970:
Lambretta Calendar

October 6, 1908:
Claude Monet with a pigeon on his head

1918:
Armistice Day

1938:
‘Oh Fred, the baby has swallowed the matches!’

1911:
Fashions worn at the Auteuil Races

1950s-1960s:
Dog Space Suits

1976:
R2-D2 has lunch

c. late 1800s:
Theatre Street, Yokohama

1943:
Model Airplanes Decorate the Ceilings at Union Station, Chicago, Illinois

c.1910s:
Beatrix Potter and her rabbits

c. 1900:
Le Plessis-Robinson Cabaret

1950s:
Marilyn Monroe’s Champagne ‘Thank you’ note

c. 1833–1842:
Map of the Open Country of a Woman’s Heart

1905-1987:
The real Maria von Trapp

c.1930s:
Kayan Lahwi women, Burma

1960:
The First Full Face Motor Racing Helmet

1900:
School of the Deaf

1930s:
Nessler’s Permanent Wave Machine

c.1910:
Suffrage Postcards

1995:
Windows 95 Launch day