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Girls Say Yes to boys who say NO [to the Vietnam draft] Joan Baez and her sisters (1968) Image: Jim Marshall, William J. Mears / National Museum of American History

Poster showing three young women wearing sitting on a couch. There is a violin and a mandolin on the wall along with a landscape picture. Above them reads the text GIRLS SAY YES to boys who say NO. In small print at the bottom it says Proceeds from the sale of this poster go to The Draft Resistance.

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She's wearing two Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament symbols (aka "peace signs"). The one on her shoulder looks like the original CND badge (as archived on Wikipedia).

Black and yellow CND/peace symbol badge/button.

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Joan Baez (1963) Photo: Ivan Massar / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

A young woman wearing a sleeveless patterned dress holding a guitar under her arm as she looks to her left. She is wearing two peace/CND symbols on a badge and on a chain. Two people can be seen in the background.

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Woman facing a firing squad (1884) Paul Adolphe Kauffmann, NYPL

Three soldiers with one pointing a rifle directly at a defiant woman

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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 7h

Art Carney in a stage production of The Odd Couple (1965) Friedman-Abeles, NYPL

Black and white image of a man on stage.

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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 11h

#LookAndSee 529 #MusicChallenge Woody Guthrie with Cisco Houston and Sonny Terry - When That Great Ship Went Down (1944) www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5ul...

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When That Great Ship Went Down - Woody Guthrie

YouTube video by T.A. Sedlak

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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 11h

I contacted a fave professor once, 30 years later, about an essay of his that I came across. He didn't remember me, or writing that essay.

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You Say Yes, I Say No – Michael J. Kramer

Is the poster sexist? This article places it in context. www.michaeljkramer.net/you-say-yes-...

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Bernard Doucette @bdoucette.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Some pinkish hues in the valley clouds this morning Happy Monday! 😊👋 #ColorADay #PinkMon #MountainMonday

Thick layer of pink clouds in the valley. Mountain silhouettes under peach and pink skies.

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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

WARNING: Moose will try to diagnose what is wrong with your broken vehicle.

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Baseball at Highbury (1918) Image: World War Poster collection, University of Minnesota Libraries

Poster advertising Baseball! at Highbury, Arsenal Football Grounds. Anglo-American baseball League Season 1918...

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Kids Showing Off on Amelia Street, Walworth, London (1976) Photo: Nick Birch / IUPUI

Children playing and showing off in a city street as a couple walks by.

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Doddington Grove, Kennington, London (1976) Photo: Nick Birch / Indiana Univ.

Three girls huddled together against the corner of a brick wall as a straggler stands a few feet behind. Parked cars, bricks buildings, and blocks of flats are in the background.

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"Older End of Norton Estate," Birmingham (1976) Photo: Nick Hedges / Indiana Univ.

Aerial view of residential streets with large industrial chimneys in the distance

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Tom Collins House, Byker Wall, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (ca. 1970s)  Photo: Ralph Erskine / Artstor

View of a large block of flats with a sharply graduated roof.

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Phone booths at Illinois Bell Co., Springfield, Illinois (1939) Photo: Hedrich-Blessing / Chicago History Museum

From source: Interior view of a room with two phone booths, decorated with geometric patterns echoing the floor design, inside the Illinois Bell Telephone building, located at 625 South 6th Street in Springfield, Illinois, July 17, 1939. Photographed for architects Holabird & Root.

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H Block/Long Kesh Poster (ca. 1976-1981) Sinn Féin, National Museum of Ireland

From source: H Block/Long Kesh Poster, Circa 1976-1981. Issued by Sinn Féin, 2a Lower Kevin Street, Dublin 8.

Letterpress poster with an image of a man wearing a blanket in an empty prison cell. Above the image reads, 'H-BLOCK' and below states, 'gan orthu ach Blaincéad. LONG KESH'. The Irish text translates to something like 'with nothing but blankets to cover them'. The sentiment the poster tries to evoke was that the Blanket Protest was harsh but heroic. In other words, the Blanket Protest was noble in the fight against British rule in Ireland.

The Blanket Protest began in September 1976. The end of special category status for Prisoners convicted of causing terrorist offences was announced in March 1976. Kieran Nugent was the first prisoner to be sentenced under the new prison regime. Nugent was sent to the new 'H-Blocks' of the Maze Prison where he refused to wear prison clothes. He instead choose to wrap a prison blanket around himself. The Blanket Protest was a peaceful attempt to secure the return of the special category status, and thus, separating the ideological cause from criminality.

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Randomly, Jerry Lee Lewis lived in Dublin for 4 years during the 1990s. Here is at the Gaiety Theatre (1995) Photo: Julian Lloyd, Bridgeman Images

A man leans back on a chair in the corner of a room with a mirror on the wall behind him and a desk or table in front of him cluttered with objects like a drink can, electric fan, power cables, etc.

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Woody Guthrie's contract with RCA Victor (1940) Images: Library of Congress / Wayback Machine Woody agreed to record at least 12 'Dust Bowl Songs of his own composition and arrangement.' In return, he got 5% of the retail list price in royalties and a meager $25 advance, per contractsprofblog.com

RCA
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RCA MANUFACTURING COMPANY, INC.
A RADIO CORPORATION OF AMERICA SUBSIDIARY
Camden. New Jersey
Mr. Woody Guthrie
203 W. Craven ave., Pampa, Jevas.
Date April 24, 1940
Dear Sirs
ARTISTS LETTER AGREEMENT
1. This Letter Agreement will constitute an agreement between you and RCA Manufacturing Company, Inc. (herein called "the Company") for the render-ing of personal services by you in connection with the production of phonograph records.containing Dust Bowl Songs of your own composition or arrangement.
2. This Agreement shall remain in effect for a period of ono year from the date hereof, and during that period you will, at mutually convenient times, come to and perform at the Company's recording studios for the purpose of recording twelve (12) selections, or more than this number if the Company so desires.
In consideration of this agreement and without further payment than as herein provided, you grant to the Company, its associates, subsidiaries and nominees (1) the right to manufacture, advertise, sell, lease, license or other-wise use or dispose of in any or all fields of use, throughout the world, or to refrain therefrom, throughout the world or any part thereof, records embodying the performances to be recorded hereunder, upon such terms and conditions as the Company may approve; (2) the right to use your name and photograph, if desired, in connection with the exploitation of said records; and (3) all rights in and to the matrices and records, and the use and

Mr. Woody Guthrie
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Apr11 24, 1940
4. Payment of accrued royalties shall be made semi-annually, on the first day of May for the period ending March 31 and on the first day of November for the period ending September 30 of each year. The Company, how-ever, shall have the right to deduct from the amount of any statements, or accounts of royalties due, the amount of royalties previously paid to you on records subsequently returned, either as defective or on exchange proposition.
5. You agree that during the period of this Agreement you will not perform for any other person, firm, or corporation, for the purpose of pro-ducing records, that after the expiration of this Agreement you will not record for anyone else any of the musical selections recorded hereunder, and that in the event of a breach of this covenant, the Company shall be entitled to an injunction to enforce same, in addition to any other remedies available to it.
6. If any instrumental musicians whose services are engaged hereunder are members of the American Federation of Musicians, the following provision shall be deemed to be a part of this agreement:
"As the musicians engaged under the stipulations of this contract are members of the American Federation of Musicians, nothing in this contract shall ever be construed as to interfere with any obligation which they owe to the American Federation of Musicians as members thereof.
7. It is mutually understood and agreed that in the event the license issued to the Company by the American Federation of Musicians, and pursuant to which the Company engages the services of Federation members as instrumental musicians, should be revoked or terminated, with or without cause, and in the event you or any of the members of the musical organization are members of the Federation, this agreement shall be suspended until such time as the Company's license is restored, and if it is not restored within six months, then this agreement shall be deemed terminated.
8. The Compan…

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Capstan Navy Cut tobacco container (ca. 1920s-1930s) Image: National Museum of American History

A weather tin container with the words Full Strength, "CAPSTAN", Navy Cut, W.D. & H.O. Wills, Bristol & London

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Mijanou Bardot (21-year-old sister of Brigitte, at left), friend Daniele Fulop (middle), and actor Mamie Van Doren (1959) Photo: Valley Times / LAPL

Three young women looking at some kind of plant or bouquet held by one of them.

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Jerry Lee Lewis press conference, Los Angeles (1958) Photo: LA Examiner Photographs Collection, USC

A young men sits at a table with a white tablecloth and microphone on it.

A man stands outside a nightclub or restaurant with a sign saying Crescendo. Gene Norman Presents. Jerry Lee Lewis Press Conference.

A man in a nightclub or restaurant full of empty tables sits at a piano as he looks over his right shoulder.

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"Liverpool 8 in the early 1960s" (1963) Don McCullin, Tate Britain

Three children standing with a pram in the middle of a cobbled street, the oldest holding an ice cream. Tenement buildings and distant adult figures in the street are in the background.

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Carolyn and Victoria Lloyd, Bedford Gardens, London (1966) Photo: Julian Lloyd, Bridgeman Images

Two young women in a sitting room with a black and white TV and empty bookcase behind them

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"Jiveguy on Williamsburg Subway, Brooklyn, NY" (1978) Meryl Meisler

Man sitting on subway posing with his pin striped 3 piece suit, flowered shirt, high heeled shoes, sunglasses, and hat with feather

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"Os Beatles" on Portuguese Parlophone (1967)

Vinyl single in wrinkled sleeve with handwritten scribbles. The record label is Parlophone and the sleeve also mentions other labels including MGM, Columbia, Pathé, and Odéon.

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H Block/Long Kesh Poster (ca. 1976-1981) Sinn Féin, National Museum of Ireland

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Clodagh Tait @clodaghtait.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Blackfriars Road, St Ebbe's, Oxford (1945) Photo: Dell & Wainwright / RIBApix

Narrow street lined with brick buildings with children walking and playing and one or two vehicles parked. A string of UK and US flags is displayed above.

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Dublin, Dec 1669: Mr Slaughter killed in a duel with Mr Savage. (CSPI)

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think it had something to do with being in trouble with the tax man back home, but he lived in a modest suburban house in Foxrock... Photo: Sunday World

A smiling man stands outside the door of a brick house wearing a white dressing gown / bathrobe with his hands in its pockets and a cigar in his mouth.

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40th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues, from Salmon Tower 11 West 42nd Street, Manhattan, 1935 by US photographer Berenice Abbott #WomensArt

Monochrome photograph featuring a New York cityscape with skyscrapers

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tomorrow's front page 📰 New satellite pictures lay bare Israel's destruction of Gaza

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"A cross roads store, bar, 'juke joint', and gas station in the cotton plantation area," Melrose, Louisiana (1940) Photo: Marion Post Wolcott / Library of Congress

Store fronts for bar and gas station with large advertising signs for Regal whiskey and Jax beer.
From source: Photograph shows Sign on left building: Frenchies Beer Garden; above porch: Frenchies Bar.

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🧵 1/3 A project in 1990-91 replicated photos from the Lawrence Collection in the National Library of Ireland 100 years later, to create a record of the changing topography of selected locations. Main St., Rathkeale, Co. Limerick (ca. 1990) Photo: John O'Brien / National Library of Ireland

Main street with buildings, shops, and vehicles.

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L.L. Cool J debut album insert (1985) Image: Def Jam Recordings / CBS UK

A young main in a hat with tape recorders in the background and a long piece of promotional text with the headline A Minimalist Homeboy Who Knows His Beats

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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Lady Gaga meat dress (2010); The Undertones album cover (1983) The Undertones were not happy with the artwork put together by a designer hired by the record company, after the band broke up. The model recalls the story 30+ years later, here: www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/lon...

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"2 young women standing holding a flower, both in baseball boots", Yaoundé, Cameroon (ca. 1981) [Note to US friends: that's just what they call them in the UK 🤷‍♂️] Jacques Toussele, British Library Endangered Archives Programme

Two young women in dresses and high top sneakers posing in a portrait studio

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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Marina City under construction, Chicago (ca. 1962) Photo by Chalmers Butterfield

Kodachrome slide showing the Chicago river with a small red boat in the foreground, with the towers of Marina City under construction and another tall building in the background.

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Harrod's meat counter, London (ca. 1964) Photo: Don McCullin / Howard Greenberg Gallery

Customers queue at a butcher's counter in a department store.

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Wynn's Hotel, Abbey Street, Dublin (1916)  Photo: Independent Newspapers / National Library of Ireland

Destroyed and partially destroyed buildings on a city centre street. Numerous pedestrians are in the street and pavements.

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50 Pianos for Rent

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"Performer and Press Agent"  Albertina Voice and Leon Russell, Cole Bros. Circus, Peoria, Illinois (1948)  Photo: Sverre "Bex" Braathen / Illinois State Univ.

A woman in yellow clown clothes talks to a man on the grounds of a travelling circus

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🧵 3/3  Main Street, Rathkeale, Co. Limerick (2023)  Image: Google Streetview

Main street captured by Google Earth camera.

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🧵 2/3  Main Street, Rathkeale, Co. Limerick [between ca. 1865-1914]  Photo: Robert French / National Library of Ireland

View of main street with buildings, shops, vehicles, and people.

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Children in the tenement district, Brockton, Mass. (1940)  Photo: Library of Congress

Large grey wooden Victorian tenement building with several children and a dog hanging out on or near the front porch.

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Corner bar, Chicago (1985)  Photo: Deborah Bright / DePaul University

From source: Photograph of the exterior of a bar and the exteriors of houses located at the intersection of W. Belden Ave. and N. Greenview Ave. in Chicago, Illinois. There is a dog on the front steps of the bar. A Chevrolet truck is parked on W. Belden Ave. A spire from St. Josaphat Church located at 2311 N. Southport Ave is visible in the background. Negative LPP-5, #6.

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Film star Carole Lombard in publicity pic, showing her "working" as a press agent (1938) Photograph caption reads "Starts job with a whiz, calls Duke of Windsor, Mrs. Roosevelt."  Photo: Herald Examiner Collection, LAPL

Woman sits with feet up on a messy desk, holding a phone and smiling. Sign on door says LOMBARD NOW AT WORK.

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