Detroit Beatnik Cool c. 1959 - The Minor Key with Win Wells at the mic. Jazz, poetry, coffee and BYO weed. Dress code black turtleneck, dark glasses + frequent finger snapping and head nodding. Patrons included many underage young ladies and On the Road wanna be's. HOWL required reading.

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Tina. 1985. Mad Max. Legend

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Princess Fawzia bint Fuad of Egypt as the Queen of Iran in 1942.

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Dorothea Lange in 1936, pictured atop a Ford Model C in California. While best known for her humanizing images of the Great Depression, Lange also recorded the forced evacuation of Japanese Americans from the West Coast while on assignment for the War Relocation Authority. Deeming them too critical,

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A photo of a Japanese family in 1942

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A woman operates machine parts at Fort Worth, Texas' Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, 1942.

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The crew of an M-24 tank along the Naktong River, 1950.

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Inge Morath took the photo featured here “A Llama in Times Square,” in 1957. The image appeared in LIFE Magazine in a one-page feature about television’s most beloved animals.

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