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Jim Linderman blog about surface, wear, form and authenticity in self-taught art, outsider art, antique american folk art, antiques and photography.

Horrors in Wax # 14 The SECOND Wax Oswald!

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Another installment in my Horrors of Wax series, and this one is my SECOND Wax Oswald. So which Wax Oswald did the dirty Dallas deed? Nei...

Sparse Circus (At the Circus in Black and White)

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Click to enlarge. Hard to believe, but I THINK they've set up a ticket booth, so they're CHARGING for this ride. Snapshot, circa ...

Jim Linderman "Best Art Books of the Year" Oxford American

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HERE Oxford American selects Jim Linderman and Lance Ledbetter Take Me to the Water for "Best Art Books of the Year" column. ...
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The Greatest Masterpiece and The Missing Painting

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Circa 1935 postcard with "missing painting" gummed insert "canvas" to affix a picture of a loved one (or to mail a pict...
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The Bizarre Erotic Outsider Art of B. E. RIDDICK

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Examples of the outsider art by African-American Outsider Artist B. E. Riddick, who drew on flattened shopping bags...
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Ta DA! Flipped Mirror RPPC from ANITA

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Pretty hot, eh? Dearest Anita flipped it over for me! She's the BEST. We've corresponded, she is a bright young woman with a spl...

Novelty Reverse Risque Real Photo Postcard RPPC

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Now HERE is an unusual real photo postcard. I apologize for not having mirror software...you'll have to lug your computer over to the m...

WORK

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Illustrations by Nellie Farnam and Clarence Biers, 1939.

A BIG HAND of Giant Cards

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Fred Kaplan at the National Bridge Tournament 1938 Original Press Photograph 1938 Collection Jim Linderman

Busy Workers Homemade Biblical Postcard

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Handmade Postcard with Biblical Phrase and Applied Cut-out (Busy Work?) Collection Jim Linderman Also posted on old time religion blog.

Sherman Alexie The Hardy Boys and Kindle

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So I saw Sherman Alexie on Colbert. He is a great writer with more guts in him than just about anyone I can think of, and if you don't ...
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Battling Queens of the Bronx Bad Girl Warfare Gang of the Fifties

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Anonymous illustration from "Battling Queens" a short story by an anonymous writer, circa 1950, which describes a female shoplifti...

Playing with a Marked Deck

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6" x 10" Photograph of marked cards, cropped, dated 1928. Evidence Photograph? Hand embellished dated 1928 collection Jim Linder...
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GRAMMY NOMINATED Jim Linderman, Lance Ledbetter

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December 3, 2009, Take Me To The Water: Immersion Baptism In Vintage Music And Photography 1890–1950 
Steven Lance Ledbetter & ...
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Things to Make Paste Paper Pin

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Instructions not necessary
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Gals Gams Garters the BOOK

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Selected Pages from Gals Gams Garters Dull Tool Dim Bulb Books (#2)

The Heartbreaking Home Health Care Scrapbook of Miss Ruth Miller

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A testimony to loving, respectful care compiled by Ruth Miller, who earned her Red Cross badge and then some. These images from her homemad...

Confidence man and Confederate in Cahoots with a Co-Conspirator the Clairvoyant Criminal. (And Carnac)

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Those of you old enough to remember Johnny Carson's "Carnac the Magnificent" might understand this photo. The master talk sh...

Tijuana Bibles for slightly more Polite Company The Risque "joke" Book

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All these examples, I believe, were published by the Ceagee publishing company in the 1940's, although none have publisher imprints or d...

Open Air Baptism Under the Lights Georgia 1938, a Christmas Gift Suggestion and a Milestone!

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Dull Tool Dim Bulb will receive hit number 100,000 today though I only added the counter in August 2009. The figure includes all my sleaz...
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