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Proto Porn book by Jim Linderman in THINGS Magazine
Things Magazine has run a nice little blurb on the book PROTO-PORN: The Art Figure Study Scam of the 1950s. Things is lovely, a magazine and weblog about objects, collections and discoveries... and this is much appreciated.
‘During the 1950s, under the quasi-legal rubric and ruse of “Art and Photo Figure Studies” hundreds of soft-core digest books featuring blurry photos of semi-naked women were sold by the truckload to a willing, greedy and needy consumer market’: the story of Proto-Porn: The Art Figure Study Scam, one of several publications by Jim Linderman, keeper of the (somewhat nsfw) Vintage Sleaze weblog. This is of course Taschen territory as well: American Pin Ups, Gil Elvgren, 1000 Pin-up Girls, etc. etc"
Things Magazine is HERE and highly recommended.
‘During the 1950s, under the quasi-legal rubric and ruse of “Art and Photo Figure Studies” hundreds of soft-core digest books featuring blurry photos of semi-naked women were sold by the truckload to a willing, greedy and needy consumer market’: the story of Proto-Porn: The Art Figure Study Scam, one of several publications by Jim Linderman, keeper of the (somewhat nsfw) Vintage Sleaze weblog. This is of course Taschen territory as well: American Pin Ups, Gil Elvgren, 1000 Pin-up Girls, etc. etc"
Things Magazine is HERE and highly recommended.
Prize Winners! Females Finish in First Place Tinted Tintype photograph collection Jim Linderman
A group of hand-tinted ribbon holders!
Prize winners Tintype Photograph circa 1880 Collection Jim Linderman
Prize winners Tintype Photograph circa 1880 Collection Jim Linderman
Two Fiddlers Fiddling Tintype collection Jim Linderman Ferrotype
A fine pair of fiddlers Tintype circa 1870 Collection Jim Linderman
World's Smallest Carvers! Engraved Copper Plate Folk Art Eagle
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A tiny copper plate engraving with a pennysworth of Honest Abe for size comparison. It occurs to me that engravers are actually carvers...very skilled carvers with a steady hand. I have yet to see a chain-saw engraving.
Copper decorative folk art hand engraving No Date Collection Jim Linderman
Fat Man Tintype Circus Sideshow or Just a Large Man? Collection Jim Linderman
Certainly the largest man I've ever seen fit onto a tintype. Sideshow performer or just portly?
Tintype circa 1870 collection Jim Linderman
Fake Native American Band RPPC Real Photo Postcard collection Jim Linderman
Real Photo Postcard circa 1910 Collection Jim Linderman
The Albatross of Maine Charles Tower's Fantasy Bird from the Insane Hospital collection Jim Linderman
The Insane Hospital of Augusta, Maine opened in 1840, but much of it burned down ten years later. Since there were so many insane people in Maine (they turned down 100 applications for lack of space) they rebuilt in 1854. By 1900 they had over 1,000 inhabitants.
I do not know when Charles Tower was admitted, but this drawing and fantasy story about the Albatross of Maine was certainly done before 1900. You can read it, but I think it made more sense to Charles than it will to you.
Letter and Drawing by Charles W. Tower, Augusta Insane Hospital circa 1880? Collection Jim Linderman
School for Boys Graduating Class By the Numbers
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Someone went to plenty of trouble identifying all the young men here. A few gaps, but not bad. There are three boys named Morris, each further indicated by additional numbers on the reverse! (Morris number 2, Morris number 3...but I suspect they went by other nicknames, like "big" Morris and "stinky" Morris or something) The fellows in back graduated, and most of them went on to grade A schools.
Class Portrait, circa 1910? Original Photograph, 6" x 9" Collection Jim Linderman
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Wyoming Cowboys Roll into Town on a Float
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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.
Buyer Beware Folk Art This Little Piggy Went to Market
All sold within the last few weeks on eBay. These would fall into the "antiques made while you wait" category.
- This little piggy went to market,
- This little piggy stayed home,
- This little piggy had roast beef,
- This little piggy had none,
- And this little piggy went wee wee wee all the way home.
Rhoda Ann Sargent RIP 1886 Hair Folk Art Memorial Tribute Death
Rhoda Ann Sargent's Hair woven into a tribute. 1886 Collection Jim Linderman
Tintype Dog with Considerable Eyebrows Tintype Photograph collection Jim Linderman
A real pair of eyebrows on this li'l fellow. Perched on a birch stand, man's best friend.
Rack of Carnival Knock-Down Punks and the Great Bicycle Ramp Jump Collection Jim Linderman
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A big chunk of early carnival history on one photograph. A rack of knock-down targets sit underneath the giant wooden ramp of death for a bicycle daredevil above. I suppose one could take the time to squint at the signs and identify the location of this carnival which took over main street for a while, but what I here is already enough for me. Oh...and a nice ball toss target with a big mouth.
Madcaps Fingerama Musical Madness (I guess...)
Ladies and Gentlemen, give it up for THE MADCAPS and their original FINGERAMA !!!
Original Real Photo Postcard Date Unknown Collection Jim Linderman
Harlem History and Tan Pin Ups Teena, Vera and Dolores
One of the earliest significant ads I can find in a mass market
periodical offering nude photographs of African-American women.
(Or
even women of color...)
From a 1956 issue of Frolic Magazine. Scarce today, Frolic was printed
on cheap pulp but the covers were bright and vibrant to stand out on the
top shelf of shops. In 1956 the magazine was published every two
months with Luke Bailey as editor. Harlem was about 100 blocks north of
the editorial offices.
The photo sets offered here were common in the day, but to cater to a
race market was not. Mar-Mays photos MAY be yet another "branch" of the
enormous "Marr" or "Marno" distributor of countless figure study
digests documented as well as can be in the book
PROTO-PORN: The Art Figure Study Scam of the 1950s.
PROTO-PORN: The Art Figure Study Scam of the 1950s.
The ad here ran four years after African-American photographer Cass Carr
was arrested for organizing nude camera shots which used ethnic
models...and Bettie Page. Carr was a pioneer of sorts and lived in
Harlem. His studio was shut down by police as reported in Jet Magazine
in 1952. It is likely the photographs above came from informal (or even
illegal) amateur camera club models such as those used by Carr.
Ads from Frolic Magazine 1956 Text by Jim Linderman
Pet Cemetery ? Real Photo Postcard collection Jim Linderman
Mystery. Pet Cemetery? Garden layout? Any guesses?
Real Photo Postcard circa 1900 Collection Jim Linderman
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Good Boy (Dog) Toy Kraft Company Pull Toy
Thanks to a friendly follower, what I thought was a craftsman toy project from a kit or hobbyist magazine turns out to be a manufactured product made by the Toy Craft company in Wooster, Ohio. See post on Collector's Weekly HERE. Great paint and wonderful wear.
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