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Vintage Shoe Design by Lucien Guilbert Circa 1940 - 1950 original drawings Spring forward in Style!







Vintage SHOE FASHION ILLUSTRATION SKETCHES BY LUCIEN E GUILBERT. Prolific Shoe Designer of the 1940's and 1950's.  The designer worked out of St. Louis during the 1940s and 1950s. Monseuir Guilbert designed shoes for high-end stores including some in New York City such as Nordstroms, Lazarus, Lord & Taylors and similar department stores as well as small specialty shops.  Some 150 drawings were sold in a lot several years ago.   Collection Jim Linderman 


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Buster Brown Dummy Board with Children


I don't know how these girls got their hands on a Buster Brown stand-up figure, but they didn't get his dog Tige.  Tige was a pitbull, and he is recognized as the first talking comic strip character, but he is missing.

There actually was a Buster Brown...a spoiled little brat just like this winking fellow here who shilled shoes to children from 1902 on.  The real Buster was on Granville Hamilton Fisher.  I don't know why Granville didn't play Buster on Broadway, but they found a PROFESSIONAL brat to do that, a 21 years old little person named Master Gabriel, AKA Gabriel Weigel. 

The four young women are identified on the reverse.  Buster is not.

Original snapshot, no date (1925?)  Collection Jim Linderman

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Meet the Press: Woman's Deformed Feet from Improper Shoes


Original Press photograph, 1921. "Imprint of the Feet of a Woman (American) Deformed by Wearing Improper Shoes. Collection Jim Linderman