1930s Life Magazine depiction of the ten things prohibited by the Motion Picture Production Code, popularly known as the Hays Code.

Complete text of the code here.

19th Century Headless Portraits: “A number of Victorian photographers combined images from more than one negative to create illusions or novelty portraits. “Headless Photographs” featured men and women with “their heads floating in the air or in their laps.”

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A Comparative View of the Human and Animal Frame by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins was published in 1860. Hawkins’ intent was “to give a comparative view of the variation in form of the bony skeleton or framework of those animals most frequently required by the artist, designer, or ornamentist.”

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