For more than 60 years, Charles Van Schaick (1852-1946) worked as a photographer in the town of Black River Falls, Wisconsin. Opened in 1879, he took around 8,000 of glass plate negatives, of which approximately 5,700 are studio portraits. The Charles Van Schaick collection, now housed at the Wisconsin Historical Society in Madison, achieved … Continue reading "Wisconsin Death Trip, 1973 – Small Town America In The Grip of Madness" The post Wisconsin Death Trip, 1973 – Small Town America In The Grip of Madness appeared first on Flashbak.

How the Ancients influenced America

“I didn’t get TACO BELL tattooed on my knuckles for nothing!” – The Decline of Western Civilisation III, 1998     Directed by Penelope Spheeris in 1998, The Decline of Western Civilization III chronicles the punk lifestyle of teenagers  living in squats or on the streets in Los Angeles. Shot between July 1996 and August … Continue reading "The Decline of Western Civilisation III, 1998" The post The Decline of Western Civilisation III, 1998 appeared first on Flashbak.

Henry VII often slips through the cracks of history, being sandwiched between the controversial Richard III, a Renaissance Machiavellian prince, and Henry VIII, an impossibly charismatic and epoch-shaping monarch. But without Henry VII, there would be no Henry VIII. It was Henry VII who ended a civil war and took the English crown for […]

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