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Showing posts with label Real Photo Post Card. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Real Photo Post Card. Show all posts

Wooden Lumberjack at the Snohomish, Washington Grange State Fair 1936 Folk Art Sculpture Real Photo Postcard

Wooden Lumberjack at the Snohomish, Washington Grange State Fair 1936. The fair continues to this day. Real Photo Postcard collection Jim...

Early Adopter John Willis and his Electric Bungalow

Two miles from where George Washington crossed the Delaware, on a tiny island where he had been living some thirty years, electric wizar...

A curious photograph. Orphans? Wards of the State?

A real photo postcard from the turn of the century depicts three children with odd dresses. The woman in charge is "Mrs. Davis&quo...

First African-American Armed Cross Dressers with a Guitar Pose for the Camera collection Jim Linderman

First African-American Armed Cross Dressers Pose for the Camera? Even though I suspect the gun, holster and guitar are studio...

World's Biggest Ice Cream Cone fights Midwestern Heat!!

I gotta say, this summer of 100 degree plus days and apocalyptic, biblical quality drought is starting to bother me...but then I moved ...

A Delicate Balance Curt carries a Chair RPPC collection Jim Linderman

Curt "No Last Name" and "A Member of Our Group" balances a chair. Real Photo Postcard circa 1920 Collection J...

La Lettre Review International Center of Photography Take Me to the Water

A nice review in La Lettre HERE of the Take Me to the Water exhibit at the International Center of Photography which runs through the fir...

Crazy Chiropractic Science BJ Palmer's Grotto of Greed

Chiropractic "medicine" is controversial still after all these years for a reason. It isn't science. It isn't even bad ...

Dull Tool Dim Bulb Special Snow Blizzard Post RPPC

"Big Chief Petoskey" Snow Sculpture East Jordan Michigan Real Photo Postcard circa 1950 Collection Jim Linderman

Alaska Tlingit and the Bear Totem Store RPPC

I feel sorry for Alaska, by FAR one of the greatest states in the Union. Since the collective attention span of the United States has been ...

The ARK Strange Man Strange Wagon Strange Poem

Poem printed on reverse of card, with no address or contact information My kind friends should ever speak Of the strangest man you know It w...

Tiny Lord's Prayer from Zion Illinois RPPC

Well, I'm posting an enlargement to keep teeny tiny writer George Chenoweth honest. He claims this microfilm size Lord's Prayer is ...

Harvest

Real Photo Post Card Providence, RI 1915 Collection Jim Linderman

Fred Smith and his Giant Concrete Friend RPPC

Until I came across this real photo postcard, I don't believe I had seen a photo of artist Fred Smith standing next to his concrete work...

Gust Pufohl "The World's Greatest Whittler" Real Photo Postcard RPPC

Gust Pufohl laid claim to the title in the 1920's. Who is to argue? Note the necklaces here are carved from one piece of wood. That&#...

God Happens! Church Before and After Real Photo Postcards

Pair of Real Photo Postcards c. 1910 Collection Jim Linderman

The Man with the Wooden Pants "Buryl" Freak Real Photo Postcard

Two Real Photo Postcards, date unknown. Collection Jim Linderman

Get Right With God Tabernacle Barn Three Rivers MI RPPC

Real Photo Postcard c. 1920 Collection Jim Linderman TO SEE MY BLOG OF SIMILAR MATERIAL click OLD TIME RELIGION

High art versus Low art Witness the Elks RPPC

I had intended to take on the sticky issue of "High" art versus "Low" art today, but I smashed my thumb working in the b...

Paul Wegner "Summer Home" Sparta Wisconsin

Hand-written on reverse "The boat on this card is made of cement and then covered with broken glass in all colors. Will tell you about...

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