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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.

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Rolling Stones Tongue Logo and the Sweet Taste of Joy Coincidence or Conspiracy?

Now that I am reading Keef's autobiography, linked at right and recommended highly, I've been thinking more about the Rolling Stones...

New and Notable Photography History Books Available from Michigan MIPHS Members Bill Rauhauser and Janice G. Schimmelman

(click to enlarge) THREE new books are available from members of the Michigan Photographic Historical Society (one of the more active histo...

Agfa Screen Test! Snapshot Contest from the Great Depression

Agfa used to be a film, now it is an "imaging corporation" I think. Same old story...spin-offs into divisions, eventual bankrupt...

Cowboy Band

Anonymous snapshot, circa 1920? Collection Jim Linderman

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Bump and Grind WAY too Early (At the Circus in Black and White #22)

Child labor laws seem not to have applied to carnival sideshow grinds during the 1930s as this photograph attests. The young dancer can not...

Folk Art Sign of the Egg Rolling Out the Beatrice Trade Sign

Anonymous Snapshot, circa 1940 Collection Jim Linderman

Kekuku's Coo Coo Blues The Invention of the Slide Guitar and the Blues in Hawaii

In 1903 W. C. Handy was waiting for a train in Mississippi when saw and heard "A lean loose-jointed Negro...plunking a guitar beside me...

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 s...

The Stunt Dive Terminal Velocity Surface Tension Carnival Sideshow Photograph and the World Record Dive (and Lofty Rockett)

Terminal Velocity. Our object is falling so fast here that when I negotiated a price with the vendor we both lamented the stuntman wasn...

Folk Art What's in YOUR Yard

Anonymous Undated Snapshot Collection Jim Linderman

The Photo Booth an Instant History Before Warhol and After

The first photo booth was installed on Broadway in 1925 or so, then after 30 years of waning popularity they were lugged to the dump, then A...

I Bid You DO MY WILL Hypnosis Pulp Graphics

Whoa! Someone messed up the hypnosis entry on wikipedia! A bunch of gibberish the likes which wore me out before I got to the meat. I...

License Plate Collection of Harvey Wilson (Cosmo Kramer the Assman)

License Plates used to be made by the same folks who "turned big rocks into little rocks" and lived in the "Graybar Hotel...

Hand-painted FLO-PAQUE salesman sample card

If I am not mistaken, Flo-paque used to be a brand of Floquil, which if I am not mistaken again, was purchased by Testor's...the folks w...

Homemade Handmade Folk Art Amateur Stereograph Stereoviews of E. C. Allen and Andy Warhol 3-D

Let's face it. 3-D motion pictures are just an excuse to ignore a plot and they always have been. Not only are documentaries filmed und...

The Early Gigantic Upskirt Silver Foam Soap and the Clean Billboard

Silver Foam Granulated Soap seems to have "left the (grocery) building" and joined the league of dead brands, but it certainly was...

What's in YOUR Yard Folk Art Figures Litter Landscape

Assorted Yard Jigsaw Figure Snapshots circa 1950 Collection Jim Linderman

At the Circus in Black and White #21 Calcutta Monster 1957

Original Photograph 1957 Collection Jim Linderman

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