Dull Tool Dim Bulb: Jim Linderman

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Large Antique Folk Art Whirligig Collection Jim Linderman

Large Antique Folk Art Whirligig Sculpture (Fragment) Collection Jim Linderman

Fun at the Midway Funny Foto Studio Playland at the Beach Collection Jim Linderman

Folk Art Sculpture Water Wheel Whirligig Articulated Figure

Folk Art Sculpture Water Wheel Whirligig Articulated Figure No Date circa 1930
Collection Jim Linderman

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Hand Drawn Postcards Home A Soldier writes and Draws from the Front Franz Ruoff 1918

Hand Drawn Postcards Home A Soldier writes and Draws from the Front by Franz Ruoff 1918 Collection Jim Linderman
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Clay Head Folk Art Sculpture

Clay Head Folk Art Sculpture circa 1940 collection Jim Linderman

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Ventriloquist Hell Snapshot 1961 Collection Jim Linderman (and Free Preview of I'm With Dummy the Book)

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I'M WITH DUMMY Vent Figures and Blockheads by JIM LINDERMAN |

Polaroid Snapshot 1961 collection Jim Linderman

Primitive Airport and Model Amateur Snapshot colllection Jim Linderman

Primitive Airport with Model. No Date Amateur Snapshot collection Jim Linderman

World's Largest Mosquito Attacks, Kills Man Snapshots collection Jim Linderman

Early snapshots, and I think while one would expect these to be "trick" photographs of some type, I think they actually built a giant bug! Enlarge and see. Comments?

Group of Three original snapshots, circa 1930? Collection Jim Linderman

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Ventriloquist Dummy (Vent Figure) circa 1940 Collection Jim Linderman

Circa 1940 Handmade Ventriloquist Figure Collection Jim Linderman

SEE ALSO the new book I'M WITH DUMMY: Vent Figures and Blockheads Vintage Photographs from the Jim Linderman Collection. 78 Pages Softcover or ebook. Nearly 100 original photographs 1900 - 1980 of ventriloquists and vent figures never before published. Creepy? Yes!

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Comic Foreground Novelty Vintage Photographs ARGENTINA TINTAMARRESQUE The New Dull Tool Dim Bulb Book

Argentina Tintamarresque! Comic Foreground Vintage Photographs. You know the drill by now. The newest Book from House of Dull Tool Dim Bulb, and it is only $5.99 in Ebook form, and $21.95 in paperback. 66 pages of fun! Cutout novelty screens were invented by the same guy who first painted dogs playing poker. That astounding fact may just be enough for you to purchase this, the most curious of books, but I will throw in a few more encouragements. One, all the photographs included in the book predate 1930, and two, all are from Argentina. Cassius Marcellus Coolidge is credited with creating "comic foregrounds" which put a sitter behind a caricatured painting. Staple of carnivals, "just off the exit" rest stops and anywhere one wants to have fun looking stupid. Argentina Tintamarresque, as odd as it may seem, collects tons of them. Why? Why NOT?

Most are real photo postcards, but there are snapshots. Not only are the futuristic modes of transportation all wrong, the folks perched behind them seldom smile, as these are so old folks still thought you had to refrain from moving. In glorious South American sepia, each a little gem.

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Burlesque Queen Private Photographs of Lynne O'Neill The New Book

PRIVATE PHOTOGRAPHS OF A BURLESQUE QUEEN : LYNNE O'NEILL the ORIGINAL GARTER GIRL by Jim Linderman.

NOW AVAILABLE! Ebook $5.99 Paperback and Hardcover as listed.

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Horse and Rider Whirligig Rust and Galvanized Steel Folk Art

Folk Art Whirligig Surface and Patina

Galvanized steel lasts longer than regular, as the rust on this whirligig readily indicates. Can steel talk? If one listens. The use of two metals has created a curious mixture of surface and patina...but he still rides like the wind.

Whirligig, date unknown (1930?) collection Jim Linderman

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Charles Cole Folk Art Miniature Architectural Houses of Cigar Boxes

Miniature cigar box tramp art houses by Charles Cole of Racine, Wisconsin.   Mr. Cole created an entire city, in magnificent detail, from cigar boxes he collected from Rehl's Book Store in Racine, and that was the city he recreated in meticulous, remarkable detail.   Actually, Mr. Cole created an idealized city, bringing in prominent buildings from Madison, Chicago and elsewhere, but he placed them in his perfect world.

There were 75 buildings, of which four are shown here. As far as I know, one is the only unfinished piece (unpainted, anyway) which shows some of the detail work before he painted them. Precision cut with laser skill, though the laser was still fifty years in the future. As you can see in one piece here, (with bolts and nuts shown for size) many of the houses were wired for light. Which is probably why the unpainted house has SEVENTY-TWO windows!

Here is the kicker. Cole made each house IN TRIPLICATE! One for each of his children.

Mr. Cole's work, or at least one set, was apparently purchased as a lot and is now being dispersed on your favorite online auction site. A shame, it could not be kept together, but then Charles may have been tickled to know how far his little creations have been spread.

Some of the most remarkable buildings I know which were made of cigar boxes, and I aim to keep them together.

Four miniature houses, circa 1935, by Charles M. Cole collection Jim Linderman

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LET'S RIDE ! Bowlegged Early American Folk Art collection Jim LInderman

Bowlegged Cowboy Folk Art

"Howdy Mam. Can I get a drink around here?" Obviously having ridden all day and night, a cowpoke finally makes it to his destination. Bowlegged...that is unless our unfortunate cowpoke suffers from Genu Varum. I think he does, actually.

Horse and Rider Folk Art circa 1900 Collection Jim Linderman

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Pretzels and Pepsi You ARE what you Eat Snapshot collection Jim Linderman

Pretzel earrings and Pepsi eyes. Snapshot circa 1950 Collection Jim Linderman

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Antique Lanky Limberjack dances a Jig Folk Art Bull Dog Sal

This lil fella can dance, and I made an academy award winning (not) short to prove it. Music graciously provided by copyright expired and unfortunately dead "Ashly and Foster" playing their stomper Bull Dog Sal.

Limbjack collection Jim Linderman
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Antique Handmade Sock Dolls Depression Era Make Do Folk Art collection Jim Linderman

Antique Sock Doll Pair circa 1930. Good looking kids. Each 14" tall, and each wearing two socks. Collection Jim Linderman

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Buzzfeed picks 15 reasons New York City was Cooler in the 1980's and Jim Linderman is NUMBER EIGHT

Jim Linderman Hell's Kitchen New York City circa 1980 from BUZZFEED HERE
(SCROLL DOWN TO NUMBER EIGHT)

Carnival Ball Toss Target Figures From the Forties Collection Jim Linderman

A group of wooden painted sideshow carnival ball toss figures, circa 1940 Collection Jim Linderman

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jim Linderman

"...Linderman is widely regarded as one of the foremost figures in a field of vernacular art collectors working beyond the margins of most institutional axioms and impulses, in what is essentially it's own self-taught art form."
Ursula Magazine Hauser & Wirth 2019

"Linderman produces the most sublime books on dreamy, arcane subjects, sexy stuff, too, all with rare one-of-a-kind images." Craig Yoe 2017

"...disclosing an underground history of American popular culture one oddball tale at a time"
John Strausbaugh in The New York Times

"...one of the blog writers to watch for"
ARTSlant

"...wonderful, extraordinary, fascinating, remarkable and profound" Fans in a Flashbulb International Center of Photography Museum 2016

"Brilliantly Astute, Acerbic and Aesthetic Jim Linderman"
The Museum of Everything 2014

"Dull Tool Dim Bulb is always worth a visit" THINGS Magazine 2016

"...grumpy..." The Austin Chronicle 2014

"Perpetually ahead of the collecting curve...a one man Taschen. An authentically curious individual...diligently archiving the forgotten curiosities of American History"

Emma Higgins in Art Hack May 2012

"Jim Linderman likes Art, Antiques and Photography and his collection of Vernacular Photography, Folk Art, Ephemera and Curiosities is a wonderful place..."
LifeElsewhere with Norman B. 2014

"...collected over the years by Jim Linderman, a character who seems the perfect subject for a Harvey Pekar comic. Linderman treats collecting like a calling, and his finds have a resulting air of authority, stunning in their capture of bygone picturesque moments."
Derek Taylor Dusted

"The pictures, discarded artifacts of ecstatic Americana, come from the stash of Jim Linderman, who in his introduction recalls advice he’s plainly taken to heart: “Collect the heck” out of whatever you find interesting."
Drew Jubera Paste Magazine

"His interest in art is rivaled only by his interest in music, and one expression informs the other. He pursues objects with thoroughness and an innate sense of curiosity..."
Tanya Heinrich Folk Art Magazine

"Linderman acknowledges the obscure at the same time that he elevates it.... His collections tell vast stories in sotto voce, allowing curios and objects shadowed by mainstream culture and ideology to converse and be heard. What we hear is an enormous American sub-culture speaking in forbidden, marginalized languages: stuff discovered boxed in the attic out of embarrassment or zealotry, smutty ash trays crowing next to religious pamphlets, each claiming a part of the complex, sometimes contradictory, always conflicted American imagination, a chaos of memories that will one day vanish."
Joe Bonomo Author of Conversations With Greil Marcus, Jerry Lewis Lost and Found and No Such Thing As Was

"...he's one of the world's greatest pickers."
Brian Wallis in The New York Times

"Documenting--one clipping at a time--the scrapbook of a leg and garter aficionado that was dumpster-dived in Virginia in the 60s" "...an outstanding image-archaeologist who has compiled a shelf-ful of worthy and unique photographic histories."
William Smith Hang Fire Books

"Linderman has a knack for discovering untold stories and introducing them to a wider audience"
Joey Lin Anonymous Works

"Jim Linderman...makes us all look a little puny"
Could it be Madness-this?

"...insatiable collector of ephemera and ringleader behind an incredible circus of blogs — including the treasure trove dull tool dim bulb"
The Cynephile

"Yo no sé ustedes pero creo que es uno de los mejores sitios que he visitado en mucho tiemp"
Color Me in Blog

"...there's something beyond the endless photos and postcards and weird propaganda from another time that he lovingly documents - I think it's the collection as a whole, the portrait of a person fascinated with culture and communication. I have met people like this before, and in reading Dull Tool Dim Bulb I feel I have been lucky enough to meet one more. This site is a goldmine in terms of links..."
The Hyggelic Life October 2009

"Linderman is always on the lookout for the new and exciting"
Chuck and Jan Rosenak Contemporary American Folk Art

"...an amazing collection..."
Revel in New York October 2009

"Jim Linderman has a nice little colllection of interesting books and blogs...But every so often he just loses it."
American Digest March 2010

"FOR MOST OF HIS LIFE, COLLECTOR JIM LINDERMAN has searched high and low for authentic things--unique and special objects that define the artistic culture of the American experience. From folk art to popular culture, from pulp fiction to Delta Blues-- Jim is a walking authority on so many things American they are too numerous to mention. One thing is certain-- his collecting interests are for things that have fallen through the cracks, those things lost and forgotten--the box of material under the table at the flea market booth. If it wasn't for dedicated collectors like Jim Linderman-- so many important objects about our culture would have surely been lost to time and indifference."

"Jim Linderman maintains a most interesting blog about the most amazing things from his collection—a site he calls “Dull Tool Dim Bulb,” the only curse words his father ever uttered. I love it, and read it everyday."
"...an excellent writer and I devour your blog daily. I am impressed at your deep knowledge of things within your niche..."
John Foster Accidental Mysteries

"I am grateful to Jim Linderman for first alerting me to the existence of the 1930s Spiritualist hymn "Jesus is My Air-o-plane."
William Fagaly New Orleans Museum of Art, Author Tools of her Ministry: The art of Sister Gertrude Morgan

"Linderman describes a long gone world...(he) claims not to be a writer but he is most certainly an excellent researcher..."
BOOKSTEVE

"Jim Linderman, King of the Internet Ephemeral Arts"
Spaniel Rage

"Jim is a fantastic historian...show him some love"
Astrid Daley Fringe Pop / Sin-A-Rama

"Almost an experimental narrative"
Idiopath

"He came to us with hundreds of jaw-dropping baptism photos that he'd been collecting for 25 years," Ledbetter explains. "By the time he found us, he'd already done half a lifetime's works, and he trusted us to handle it properly." Lance Ledbetter in Creative Loafing 10/13/11

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