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December 2009
Mermaids and Webb's Wonderful World of Retail →
At one time, Doc Webb’s store in Florida had 1,400 employees. The retail mega-mall miracle had miles of merchandise and at least a few mermaids. Way ahead of his time, Doc opened the…
The Cookhouse by Robert D. Good At the Circus in... →
Chuck Wagon! “Cook House of Stevensons Brothers Circus in 1946” by Robert D. Good. For an additional photograph and biographical information on the photographer, see earlier entries in…
Frozen Stiffs! True Crime True North: The Golden... →
I haven’t done a book review in a while, since like all the rest of us, I only look at pictures. It will be a few weeks before Kindle figures out how to…
GM Hybrid Auto from FORTY YEARS AGO →
Full Page in Hod Rods and Racing Cars June 1970. FORTY YEARS AGO. Um…maybe the profit margin was a bit greater on the Hummer?
Deconstructing the Hindu Magic Book from Japan... →
Dissection performed on the Hindu Magic Book reveals secrets. Hindu Magic Book from Japan c. 1950 Collection Jim Linderman
Make-Do "Christmas Tree" Homemade Postcard →
Homemade “Christmas Card” Dated 1924 (Pressed Fern) Collection Jim Linderman
Santa Puppet Made from Glove Box Cardboard →
Indian Apple Glove Company Santa, Size 8. Circa 1930. Collection Jim Linderman
Holiday Rush got you Down? Try Derck's... →
It doesn’t matter if your problems involve determining the “small end of a reamer” or the “thickness of a Woodruf key size” the Simple-Fyer is the answer. Body Drill?…
Striking Photographs by John Stryker. Fast Modern... →
The modest little postcard folder I found here opens up a striking world…Stryker’s world! A regional photographer who…
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Vintage Sleaze Art and Illustrators It Ain't Just... →
The great new blog documenting forgotten and unknown erotic and sleazy illustrators from the 1950s and 1960s! VINTAGE SLEAZE…
Vintage Sleaze →
Forgotten artists, illustrators and photographers who excelled at exploitation and enticement. Jim Linderman studies and assembles the work of vintage sleazy artists who supplied the healthy market for titillation following World War Two. Focusing on Eugene Bilbrew, Bill Alexander, Eric Stanton and Bill Ward, four remarkable illustrators who produced work for mobster Eddie Mishkin and his line...
Boys on Top RPPC Real Photo Postcard →
“NOKO” Real Photo postcard Anonymous c. 1900? Collection Jim Linderman
Carny in a Pork Pie Hat At the Circus in Black and... →
What is cooler than a slim strutting carny in a pork pie hat? One in COLOR! An exceptional exception to my “at the circus in black and white” posts. This a snapshot pasted on a page of…
Things to Make Crepe Paper Buffalo Bill Cody →
May Houser and her Buffalo Bill (to whom I am proudly related (!) constructed from crepe paper and discarded ladies gloves. Prizewinner! Original Press Photograph, 1946….
Where Babies Come From: Competing Illustrations... →
BOTH illustrations appear in the May 1957 issue of Sexology: Sex Science Illustrated Volume 23 Number 10.
Where Warhol got the Heinz ? →
Hand-drawn tracings from 1927 Heinz Kindergarten Book “Pictures to Trace” Collection Jim Linderman
Fooled and Fooled Again Design of Magic Japan →
Japanese Card Trick circa 1950, collection Jim Linderman
"How He Looked" Place your Head Here Remnant →
The remaining portion of a “place your head here” box from Holy Land environment in Waterbury, Connecticut. Original Photograph (detail) Jim Linderman 1994
Odd Fellows Redwork Fraternal Lodge Quilt 1907 →
I don’t collect folk art anymore, but who can help looking…and I certainly couldn’t leave it in the pile I found it. A nice, in fact,…
Horrors in Wax # 14 The SECOND Wax Oswald! →
Another installment in my Horrors of Wax series, and this one is my SECOND Wax Oswald. In 1966 Richard Popkin wrote a book with that precise title “The Second Oswald” in which…
World's Most Sparse Circus (At the Circus in Black... →
Click to enlarge. Hard to believe, but I THINK they’ve set up a ticket booth, so they’re CHARGING for this ride. Snapshot, circa 1925? Likely Michigan. Collection Jim Linderman
Jim Linderman Dull Tool Dim Bulb Anniversary →
HERE Oxford American selects Take Me to the Water for “Best Art Books of the Year” column. A subscription to this magazine would be well received by anyone. The blog is one year…
The Greatest Masterpiece and The Missing Painting →
Circa 1935 postcard with “missing painting” gummed insert “canvas” to affix a picture of a loved one (or to mail a picture of yourself to one) Unmailed. Colllection Jim Linderman
Lonely RPPC Real Photo Postcard Any Ideas? →
Azo c. 1917 Abandoned? Disgusted? Flat down broke? Broken down flat? Salesman? Real Photo Postcard, Collection Jim Linderman
Ta DA! Flipped Mirror RPPC from ANITA →
Pretty hot, eh? Dearest Anita flipped it over for me! She’s the BEST. We’ve corresponded, she is a bright young woman with a splendid eye and splendid blog and seemingly splendid life!…
Novelty Reverse Risque Real Photo Postcard RPPC →
Now HERE is an unusual real photo postcard. I apologize for not having mirror software…you’ll have to lug your computer over to the mirror in the hallway. Caption reads “SOME CURVES AT…
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Illustrations by Nellie Farnam and Clarence Biers, 1939.
Victor Minx and his Lots of Lascivious Links
Bettie Page, Anonymous Artists, and Cocktail Napkin Nudes and Dirty Drawings combine for space on the sites (and books) maintained by Victor Minx, a collector and Garage Sale shopper who collects and presents a mind-boggling array of, as he says, Gals Gams and Garters . Actually, like purveyors of filth from the Fifties, Minx is a suitable pseudonym for a well-known vintage photography collector...
Victor Minx Hits the Big Time →
A BIG HAND of Giant Cards →
Fred Kaplan at the National Bridge Tournament 1938 Original Press Photograph 1938 Collection Jim Linderman
Busy Workers Homemade Biblical Postcard →
Handmade Postcard with Biblical Phrase and Applied Cut-out (Busy Work?) Collection Jim Linderman Also posted on old time religion blog.
Sherman Alexie The Hardy Boys and Kindle →
So I saw Sherman Alexie on Colbert. He is a great writer with more guts in him than just about anyone I can think of, and if you don’t believe me find his ten minute lecture on you tube…
Battling Queens of the Bronx Bad Girl Bottle... →
Anonymous illustration from “Battling Queens” a short story by an anonymous writer, circa 1950, which describes a female shoplifting squad that operated as an auxiliary to the Battling…
Playing with a Marked Deck →
6” x 10” Photograph of marked cards, cropped, dated 1928. Evidence Photograph? Hand embellished dated 1928 collection Jim Linderman
GRAMMY NOMINATED Jim Linderman, Lance Ledbetter →
December 3, 2009, Take Me To The Water: Immersion Baptism In Vintage Music And Photography 1890–1950
Steven Lance Ledbetter & Jim Linderman, compilation producers; Robert…
Things to Make Paste Paper Pin →
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The Heartbreaking Home Health Care Scrapbook of ... →
A testimony to loving, respectful care compiled by Ruth Miller, who earned her Red Cross badge and then some. These images from her…
Gals Gams Garters the BOOK →
Selected Pages from Gals Gams Garters Dull Tool Dim Bulb Books (#2)
Shy Shamed Secret Shadowed Hidden BOOK →
NOW IN PRINT follow link for Preview or to Purchase. Shy Shamed Secret Shadowed Hidden is the published vintage vernacular erotic photography of Victor Minx with essay by Jim Linderman. Limited Edition Hardcover, unlimited edition paperback.
Vintage Vernacular Erotic Photography Book SSSSH!
Shy Shamed Secret Shadowed Hidden: Vintage Vernacular Erotic Photography Victor Minx Hardcover 80 pages over 100 illustrations Just Published! 15 page preview http://www.blurb.com/my/book/detail/946634 A brief note from the Curator. “Shy Shamed Secret Shadowed Hidden” consists of approximately 100 original photographs from the collection of Victor Minx, the pseudonym of a prominent...
