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The Sacred Mushroom: Key to the Door of Eternity
Andrija Puharich
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1959.“The search for the secret plant of the ancients, used to send the mind to another world and into the future.” (from wrapper) A parapsychological researcher conducts an investigation of the Amanita muscaria and its effects on humans. One of the early works of psychedelic mushroom research, published only 2 years after the Wassons’ ethnomycological founding work Mushrooms, Russia and History.
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The Centennial Story: The History of Freemasonry in Queensland Australia over the first One Hundred Years, 1859-1959
Arthur Richards
Brisbane: United Grand Lodge of Antient Free and Accepted Masons of Queensland, 1959.A detailed history of Freemasonry and prominent members in Queensland over a hundred year period.
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Physique Pictorial Volume 9 Number 2, Summer 1959
Bob Mizer
Los Angeles: Athletic Model Guild, 1959.Single 1950s issue of the most popular of beefcake magazines, Physique Pictorial, produced by Bob Mizer’s AMG. Early issues feature scantily clad athletic men in fitness poses together with homoerotic artwork by Tom of Finland, Harry Bush, George Quaintance, and others. If you can stayed focused the text provides insight into gay culture and rights at the time, as well as details on the models and artwork. Into the late 1960s and 1970s as the laws around censorship change, the beefcake physique magazine became more naked and blatantly homoerotic.
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Physique Pictorial Volume 8 Number 4, Winter 1958
Bob Mizer
Los Angeles: Athletic Model Guild, 1959.Single 1950s issue of the most popular of beefcake magazines, Physique Pictorial, produced by Bob Mizer’s AMG. Early issues feature scantily clad athletic men in fitness poses together with homoerotic artwork by Tom of Finland, Harry Bush, George Quaintance, and others. If you can stayed focused the text provides insight into gay culture and rights at the time, as well as details on the models and artwork. Into the late 1960s and 1970s as the laws around censorship change, the beefcake physique magazine became more naked and blatantly homoerotic. The Winter 1958 issue was released in March 1959.