Vernacular Travel Photo

Vernacular Travel Photo (Museum of Natural History, NYC March, 1971)
Collection Jim Linderman Dull Tool Dim Bulb

Love During Wartime Vietnam Edition. Pair of Snapshots

Love during wartime, Vietnam Edition.  Identified as "house girls" on reverse.  Anonymous photographs, circa 1970 Collection Jim Linderman  One of a continuing series on Dull Tool Dim Bulb.

Vintage Vernacular Photograph of a Working Artist Atlantic City 1930s

Original vintage vernacular shapshot depicting a "street artist" selling his wares on the beach in Atlantic City.  Appears to be on original mount from a photo album which dates snapshot to 1934. Collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb 

Rhythm and Blues come Rock and Roll 1965 photograph collection Jim Linderman

For a century and then some, photographers and camera makers have lauded the ability to "capture movement" whatever that means.  To stop it?  To Freeze the action?  At least this one is perfectly framed. 

I just wish I was there, or that the photographer had captured the music as well.

Anonymous Snapshot, Untitled (1965)  Collection Jim Linderman  

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STUMP MAN Folk Art Vernacular Snapshot Collection Jim Linderman

Close relative to the Scarecrow.

Untitled Vernacular Photograph (Ephemeral Sculptural Figure) circa 1940 Collection Jim Linderman

Airplane over Acoma The Pueblo Inhabited Since 1100

Photographs taken out of an airplane window always let you down, and this is no exception, but the person who took it was happy...who wouldn't be excited flying so low over what is one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the country?

Since 1100, The Acoma have lived atop the sheer cliff pointed out on the reverse...smart of the photographer as that cliff is precisely the reason Acoma Pueblo still exists and to this day has residents. Now it may be high...but this stuff is DEEP. Practicing beliefs which have sustained them since before, well...before virtually everything, the Acoma to this day forbid videotaping, drawing or sketching of their home. Tours which allow cameras can be arranged for a small fee, but access is controlled. Our early plane visitor avoided the fee.

If knowing descendants of a tribe which traces back to 400 years before the Spaniards came here doesn't make you feel humble, I'm not sure what would. I am going to suggest this snapshot dates to the early 1930s, but it really doesn't matter much...we are talking about centuries after all.

Acoma Pueblo from the Air circa 1935 Snapshot Collection Jim Linderman

Cowboy Band

Anonymous snapshot, circa 1920? Collection Jim Linderman

Captain Nemo meets Tonto and the School Bully (Halloween 1956)

Thanks to Anne, who graciously mailed this photograph in time for help with your costume selections. (But not before the local Mega-Mart started stocking candy) Particularly timely, as I am SURE the fat kid in the middle stick-poking a much slighter pirate is the school bully. Let's call him Nelson.

Vernacular Snapshot Dated on reverse 1956.

Folk Art What's in YOUR Yard

Anonymous Undated Snapshot Collection Jim Linderman