Occupational Vintage Photo: Whiskey Still, Worker and Fiddle

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Occupational Vintage Photo: Whiskey Still, Worker and Fiddle.  Circa 1900.   Collection Jim Linderman

Best Film Opening Ever? Crime Without Passion

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    THIS is how to open a film.  Above is an original still photograph from the stunning opening of the film Crime...

Folk Art Morton Salt Girl. Early 20th Century Appropriation of Brand Images Outsider Art

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Here, Dorothy Hudgens recreates the Morton Salt Girl (invented 1914) in her presumably school age manner. The piece comes from a folder ...

Harry Bentz Cowboy Artist / Western Folk Artist

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 Among outsider art enthusiasts, The phrase "real deal" comes up often. Those who have become familiar with ...
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Love During Wartime Vietnam Edition. Pair of Snapshots

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Love during wartime, Vietnam Edition.  Identified as "house girls" on reverse.  Anonymous photographs, circa 1970 Collection Ji...

Trench Art with a Twist Hammered copper sculpture made from old copper stills after World War One

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Trench Art with a twist , but not all trench art was made in a trench. Generally, the term refers to art sculpture made from expended a...

Niuglo's Huge Camera! Mexican Pin up Photographer for Vea Magazine

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It's Niuglo's huge camera!  Largely a mystery, the staff photographer of Pin up magazine VEA was an unrecognized master. In thi...

A Big Mess of Old Folk Art Fish Carvings

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A hanging catch of the day!  Hand carved old folk art fish on the line.   Pine with applied eyes.  Each 12" long.  Circa 1940.  Col...

James J. P. Scott African-American Folk Art Totems, Lafitte Louisiana c. 1992 Photographs Jim Linderman

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James J. P. Scott African-American Folk Art Totems, Lafitte Louisiana c. 19 92 Photographs by Jim Linderman

Blind Artist and True Memory Painter Mary Drake Coles

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You might have heard the term "memory painter" as a slightly disparaging reference to artists who recreate pleasant rural s...
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A curious photograph. Orphans? Wards of the State?

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A real photo postcard from the turn of the century depicts three children with odd dresses.  The woman in charge is "Mrs. Davis...

African-American Quilt Drawings by Sarah Mary Taylor of the Delta

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A pair of interesting drawings by African-American Quilter Sarah Mary Taylor of Yazoo City, Mississippi.  Circa 1993.  Known widely for...

Bettie Page by Rudolph Rossi Original 8 x 10 photograph tinted by hand c. 1953

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Bettie Page by Rudolph Rossi Original 8 x 10 photograph tinted by hand c. 1953 Collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb

Antique Folk Art House Model of Medical Gauze and Plaster

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Antique Folk Art House Model of medical gauze and plaster.  Constructed over medical supply boxes. 13" tall.  Circa 1930 - 1940.  Th...

Precocious Prosthelytizers

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Young actors of the stage (or pulpit?) pose in pitch cards by photographer Frank Wendt Circa 1900, collection Jim Linderman

Antique Dollhouse Built by Uncle Joe

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Antique Dollhouse "Built by Uncle Joe" vernacular snapshot c. 1930 collection Dull Tool Dim Bulb

Anonymous Outsider Art / Art Brut found on the streets of Manhattan

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Anonymous Outsider Art / Art Brut found on the streets of Manhattan circa 1985.  Now lost.  Each was 18 x 24.  Order books and affordab...

Lonnie Holley Birmingham Alabama Outsider Art Environment Unpublished Photos c.1992

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Photographs of Lonnie Holley and his workshop at what has come to be known as the Birmingham Alabama Airport environment.  They...

Boy Evangelist Press Photograph with touched up Bible Charles E. Jaynes Jr. 1938

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Boy Evangelist Charles E. Jaynes Jr. and his hand embellished Bible. Original Press Photograph and paint 1938.  Photo by E. Stephen.  Col...

Walter Hale and the Beatniks

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A bizarre beatnik booklet from Beelzebub Books!  1959. Height of the non-existent beatnik revolution.  An unexpurgated expose of the ...