Three BIG Bears Folk Art Bear Masks Collection Jim Linderman

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Three BIG bears. Handmade Bear masks circa 1965 (Anonymous) Springfield Missouri Collection Jim Linderman BROWSE AND ORDER BOOKS AN...

Primitive Fraktur 19th Century Jefferson County, PA West Liberty Clearfield County Collection Jim Linderman Folk Art

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Detail only from a dated 1883 Fraktur drawing (with letter on reverse) from a gent to his wife.  The portion shown is 1/4 of the piece,...

Photograph of a Misnomer! Clean Coal Occupational Photograph

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  An original cabinet photograph of a hard and brutal life.  Circa 1915 or so, location unidentified, of a group of coal miners and their...

YARD BIRDS Clacking Pecking Wooden Chicken Toys (and one of Plastic) Folk Art Peckers

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CLICK and CLACK Despite zoning regulations, I've put chickens in the yard, but they are my sister's.  I am b...
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Wooden Folk Art Carved Bald Butler Standing Figure Collection Jim Linderman

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My garden now has both scarecrow AND butler.  I need only sit on the porch and ring for strawberries. Standing Folk Art Butler figu...

Petroliana Cities Service Oil Company and a Blue Checked Dress American Pickers and Image Advertising

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Here is one for those guys on American Pickers who are always looking for oil cans.  I am going to guess the blue embellishment was do...

Mell Kilpatrick Update Photographer of Automobile Crashes and Inventor of the Dashboard Camera (UPDATE)

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Mell Kilpatrick Untitled (Automobile Crash Scene) collection Jim Linderman Pleasant words have come from the Mell Kilpatrick website HER...
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Physical Culture the Macfadden Way Digital Media and Preserving the Past

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  I have written about nutty eccentric and WAY before his time Bernarr MacFadden before, and will link at the end of this p...

Dull Tool Dim Bulb The Newsletter 2013

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  Total hit count for the Dull Tool Dim Bulb series of blogs is now well over three million.  Go figure.  Read on...   First of all, a...

Damn nice Duds Dude Tenderfoot Fashion Cowboy and Cowgirl Range Fashion!

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Cowboy Poseurs all dressed up in their weekend duds!  Tenderfoots.  Drugstore Cowboys. Good color though...Cowboy Joe and Cowboy...

Anderson Johnson of Newport News Artist Singer Preacher

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The congregation of Reverend Elder Bishop Anderson Johnson numbered in the thousands, but they were virtually all painted b...

19th Century Wooden Carved Folk Art African-American Man

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Folk Art Carved Wooden Man.  Pine, likely southern American, circa 1860-1880  21"  Doll.  Collection Jim Linderman

Turn of the Century Show Business Portly Gents Vaudevillians RPPC

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A portly pair of buffoons battle bellies in Chicago at the stage door, circa 1900.  Play unknown.  Yiddish theater?   Real Photo Postcar...

Whorls DNA Fingerprints and Bernice Pepperling

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Whorls DNA Fingerprints and Bernice Pepperling. Are all fingerprints unique?  Well…if you've been following here long, you ...

Patrotic Peace Parade Plywood Float! World War Two Dove of Peace Folk Art

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  Initially I thought this was a somewhat primitive church piece from a somewhat primitive alter, but it didn't take me long to...