Outside Office!

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Can we work outside today?  Looks like the college newspaper staff is taking the show on the road. Original photograph Dull Tool Dim Bu...

Plein Air Portrait Painters

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Two aspiring illustrators apply their craft outdoors.  Enjoy the Summer! Original Real Photo Postcard inscribed on the reverse wit...

Summer Post! Link to hundreds of Dull Tool Dim Bulb images from last ten years.

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LINK to Dull Tool Dim Bulb posted images from the last ten years on MOSAIA: http://www.mosaia.com/feeds/46551934645b8111baf20d0228b011f471b...

Antique Wood Folk Art Toy with Original Paint

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Antique Wooden Folk Art Toy with Original Paint.  A sliding motion toy depicting cartoon figures from the early 20th century.  12" ...

The Unknown Superhero

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The Unknown Superhero.  Anonymous watercolor on paper circa 1950  collection Jim Linderman.  NOTE:  The Amazing Devlin Thompson located...

Satan and Adam Memories and a New Documentary

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I used to see Sterling Magee play on 125th Street in Harlem. No, not the Apollo...the STREET. Mr. Magee was also known as Satan from...

Barefoot Charlie Hasse Builds a Nite Club in Wisconsin

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Barefoot Charlie Haas had big feet and big pine trees growing up inside his Barefoot Charlie's Nite Club. There is a photo of ...
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Outsider Art Folk Art Sculpture The Catskills Prepare for War

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Outsider Art Folk Art Sculpture  The Catskills Prepare for War!  Said to be from New York State.  Circa 1930 - 1950?  Original Snapshot ...

Black Sideshow Minstrels of Nashville: Jerri Jackson and the Hi Steppers of 1952 R&B Rock and Roll

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The High Steppers of 52!  The unknown sideshow photographer kept good notes too.  Seldom does a photograph caption squeeze in so m...

Vintage Figural Croquet Game Wicket Folk Art

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Vintage Figural Croquet Wicket Folk Art.  22" tall.  Victory Products, Muskegon Michigan.  No Date (circa 1935 - 1940?)  Original p...

Ted Terry and the Sawtooth Range Riders Travel to New York on a Bull Named Hitler

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Ted Terry started out as someone else .   He was born Dallas Edgman but GIVEN to a family in Canada!  I had no idea one could give away ...

Jumbo the Elephant has a Drink and Goes to the Opera

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There was a real Jumbo (original name, Mumbo Jumbo) who passed away in 1885.  Later, Jumbo became Dumbo, a slur created by D...

Love During Wartime Hand-painted Duffel Bag with Pinup

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Pacific Theater Duffel Bag with painted by hand with Pinup.  Circa 1945. Collection Jim Linderman From the continuing series Love Duri...

Below Average Folk Art Calligraphy on a Trade Card

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It looks like the young Gregg boy is practicing his calligraphy on the job...and he swoons for Sarah. 19th Century Trade Card with c...

Antique Shaking Hands Memory Help Sewing Card

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Shaking Hands Memory Help Sewing Card, unfinished.  Printed "child's work" template. Cook Publishing 1909.  Elgin, Illinois...

Underwater Ballet Vernacular Photograph

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"Vicki" takes an air break.  Original snapshot, no date, circa 1960.  Thanks to BOX LOT on Facebook.

Robert Howell Folk Art Yard Show Outsider Artist Virginia c. 1993 photographs Jim Linderman

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Robert Howell Yard Show Outsider Artist  Virginia c. 1993 photographs by Jim Linderman

Folk Art Wood Loiterer circa 1920 Real Photo Postcard

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Folk Art guard named "Sourdough" watches over the shop.  Real Photo Postcard c. 1920 Seattle  Scenic Photo Publishing Co. Col...

The Hand Painted Signs of Joe Light, Memphis TN Southern Folk Artist Original Photographs by Jim Linderman

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Joe Light was an African-American man from Tennessee, but he called himself an American Jew.  He spoke his views to the neig...

Cyanotype Machines of Blue

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  Did you know restaurant menus NEVER use blue ink? It is because blue has been shown to decrease the appetite. Think abo...