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In the Doghouse (Misanthropic Misogyny Version) Early 20th Century Sexism and the Idiom Vernacular Photograph

In the Doghouse (Misanthropic Version) Early 20th Century Sexism and the Idiom Vernacular Photograph

In the Doghouse is an idiom. In the case above, a particularly misanthropic mysogynistic representation of dominant male culture of the 1930s or so. I presume it was all in good fun…but we'll never know. An astounding snapshot. You can see the real dog being entertained in the background, the filthy cur. Well, it wasn't his fault. Only a human can treat a human like a dog. As I write a companion blog called Vintage Sleaze, that a woman from the early 20th century would be posed like this comes as no surprise at all. Still, it seems to me an iconic snapshot depicting sexist mores, and believe me, they persist. The BBC has been running a series on Sexual Violence worldwide, and it has been gruesome. The planet certainly has a long, long way to go. One source traces the phrase origin to the book Peter Pan (!) in 1911, when author J. M. Barrie put the father Mr. Darling in the doghouse for not protecting his kids. At least he was a guy.

Anonymous Snapshot circa 1930 Collection Jim Linderman (Thanks and a tip "o" the hat to LL)
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Hopalong Cassidy Keeps Riding

Hopalong Cassidy (and Topper) keep riding eight years after the television show ends.

Anonymous snapshot 1962 collection Jim Linderman

Jack Knife Village George Danner Creates a Miniature Folk Art City 1934

George Danner creates a miniature carved folk art city in 1934. On reverse "Mr. George Danner with his jack knife village"

Pair of original snapshots collection Jim Linderman

Richard and the Hollywood Puppet Show! Vintage Vernacular Photographs

Richard and the Hollywood Puppet Show. Group of three original snapshot photographs, circa 1950 Collection Jim Linderman

Courtship from The Birth of Rock and Roll Book available NOW by Jim Linderman

"Courtship" (or The Birth of Rock and Roll) Vintage snapshot c. 1960.
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Original Snapshot circa 1950 collection Jim Linderman

Sublime Horizontal Performance A Photograph Good Either Way! Young Woman Gymnast Collection Jim Linderman

A beautiful snapshot, undated and anonymous, of a young woman with perfect balance and skill.

Circa 1950? Original 4 x 5 snapshot Collection Jim Linderman

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Shotgun Wedding (with Pistol) collection Jim Linderman

Shotgun Wedding with Pistol Circa 1900 Collection Jim Linderman

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Folk Art Train with Human Caboose Snapshot 1939

Snapshot Anonymous (Train with Caboose) 1939 Collection Jim Linderman

Wyoming Cowboys Roll into Town on a Float

Click to Enlarge Fake Cowboys

The Wyoming Cowboys roll into Cleveland on a float...I will refrain from saying these rough and tough hombres are "floating" into town, but I gotta say they look like tenderfoots to me. Their dates look a bit surly, ornery and peeved though.

Original Snapshot, no date Collection Jim Linderman

World's Most Strange Totem Pole Folk Art

Location Unknown (then AND now) A tip of the hat to Joey Lin and Erin Waters.

Curious Folk Art "totem pole" thing. Snapshot no date. Collection Jim Linderman

Paperboys from the Past Snapshot of Toledo Blade Boys Collection Jim Linderman


Click to Read Headline

Adult actions can have dire consequences on the kids...and though you would not suspect that truism has anything to do with this photo, click to enlarge, squint, and make out the headline.

What appears to be a circa 1935 snapshot of paperboys ( a now extinct profession) is fine enough, but they all seem to be smiling as if the war ended or their team won! What's the headline?

PEACE REACHED IN TRUCK STRIKE! It looks like these hard workers are back to work, and Dad gets his morning paper.

Toledo Blade Paperboys, original snapshot collection Jim Linderman
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Extinct until December Vernacular Photograph 1920 Omaha, Nebraska

Original Snapshot on Reverse "Dec 1920 3221 Leavenworth Omaha, Neb

Collection Jim Linderman

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Good Hope Baptist Church No website

There are numerous Good Hope Baptist Churches, of course, and some of them seem to have state of the art, big budget websites...but somehow I think I would be more comfortable in this place having a chat with the preacher and learning a few things.

Original Snapshot 1960 Location Unknown Collection Jim Linderman

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Teeny Tiny Mickey Mouse Goes for a Ride Snapshot c. 1935

A little rat hitches a ride on a roadster. Date unknown, but it looks like an early Mickey to me.

Original Anonymous Snapshot circa 1935 Collection Jim Linderman

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What She Taught Me Vernacular Photograph Snapshot Collection Jim Linderman

Plucked from a photography book to reveal a lovely note from a best friend.

"She also taught me this"

There is quite a story told in this one little picture. Friendship, skill, sharing, play, joy and pride come to mind without much thought. Captions matter.

Untitled, Anonymous Snapshot, circa 1920? Collection Jim Linderman

Boy with Gun Snapshot Collection Jim Linderman

It is always disturbing to see children with guns. Especially one with a huge rucksack of ammo. (Speculation)

Anonymous Untitled Snapshot, circa 1930 Collection Jim Linderman

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How To Start A Fire

Snapshots circa 1950? Collection Jim Linderman

Untitled (Fur) Anonymous Vernacular Photograph circa 1920 Collection Jim Linderman

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Untitled (Fur) Anonymous Vernacular Photograph circa 1920 Collection Jim Linderman

Onmyass, Pancho, Gringo and Ho Boy Visit Tijuana 1951

Untitled (Tijuana Photo Studio) 1951 Collection Jim Linderman

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Amateur Impalement Art Knife Throwing and a Tarpaper House

There isn't a trick to knife throwing...you just practice. A LOT. On very rare occasions there may be a magician who uses knives coming from behind the board, and there is a trick to the blindfold finale...but for the most part, all that is involved is a good knife and hours of work. No easy solutions, kids. The fellow here is lucky...not only has the amateur missed him, but he is stationary. Obviously, our thrower in training has not yet made a tarpaper "wheel of death" to match his house.

Because their names are as wonderful as those adopted by mobsters, here is a list of famous impalement artists.

Texas Slim and Montana Neil
The Great Throwdini
Che Che Whitecloud
Lash and Steel
The Great Cindini
Jack Dagger
Joe "Brokenfeather" Darrah

Original Anonymous Photograph, circa 1940 Collection Jim Linderman

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

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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

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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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