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Posts Tagged: 1950s

  • February 14, 2012

    Sweatshirt Monster

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Classic teenage scene: get your pals together and wear the same look, at the same time, maybe cause a ruckus—Beaver and his friends buy fad “monster” sweatshirts and agree to wear them to school on the same day…

    Leave It To Beaver, the ‘Sweatshirt Monsters’ episode.

    FROM:Threads Ahead

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  • February 2, 2012

    DIY Teen

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    We recently acquired a goldmine of teen-ager cartoons thanks to Ed Halter.

    FROM:Teen Reads

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  • January 2, 2012

    Keita’s Couples

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Sharp style and sweet love fill these portraits of young couples of Bamako, Mali in the early-mid 1950s.

    FROM:Threads Ahead

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  • December 14, 2011

    NYPL Picture Collection: Mom, I’m Starving

    BY Amelia Stein

    It is a plain fact but a fact nonetheless that teenagers are hungry.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • December 9, 2011

    Get With It

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    SQUARES, the CATS say you’ve had it at 20.

    FROM:Tube Time

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  • December 7, 2011

    NYPL Picture Collection: So Much Potential

    BY Amelia Stein

    A lot of the time, photographs are either taken at a beginning or at an end.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • November 25, 2011

    NYPL Picture Collection: Sleepovers

    BY Amelia Stein

    The pictures collected here are from the New York Public Library’s Picture Collection, a room full of folders upon folders of pictures.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • November 9, 2011

    Photobooth Friends

    BY Abigail Wilson

    Before the days of digital scanners and ID chips, getting a valid passport was down to producing a tiny 2″ x 2″ image of yourself.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • October 21, 2011

    Hands On

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Vocational high school is no vacation. Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High School students in Baltimore, Maryland learn everything hands on.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • October 19, 2011

    Swiss Studs

    BY Amelia Stein

    Of all the signs that some young thing has major attitude, their posture is the giveaway.

    FROM:Threads Ahead

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