Blanch Ackers African-American Artist from Arkansas, Michigan.

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Blanch Ackers moved from Arkansas to near Detroit, Michigan in 1943. In 1985 she found employment in a Foster Grandparent program and was ...

True Crime Dull Tool Dim Bulb. Lurid Drawings by a Young Woman Underworld True Crime Stories

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Two lurid drawings by a young woman in 1947. These come from an album of original art (and a few tracings?) with the initials M.R. Lets ass...

Back to School Drawings. Students from the 1950s draw the Family at Dinner collection Jim Linderman

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Well, the assignment is "My Family at Dinner" and the paper is manilla. I like to think of these drawings as being on the cusp o...

At the Circus. Vintage photographs of Circus Performers and Trainers from the Jim Linderman Collection

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Most of these antique circus photographs have appeared on the Dull Tool Dim Bulb blog before, each with a story and some documentation. Th...

Antique American Folk Art Drawing Woman with Umbrella Anonymous late 19th Century Collection Jim Linderman

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Arthur S. Mole The Nine O'Clock Hour of Prayer or the Living Clock Hour of Prayer Mass Panorama 1915 RPPC Collection Jim Linderman

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The Living Clock is a lesser known "mass panorama" photograph staged and photographed by Alfred S. Mole in 1915. This real phot...

Folk Art Handmade Postcard Teddy the Bear dated 1908

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Folk Art Handmade Postcard Teddy the Bear dated 1908 Felt with cut paper letters and a hand painted applique. Collection Jim Linderman

Meet the Beatles Amateur Fan Drawings

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Group of four (of course) amateur drawings of the Beatles. Anonymous. dated 1968. Collection Dull Tool Dim Bulb

Outsider Art from The Seaside Psychiatric Hospital in Waterford Ct circa 1950-1970

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Tempura or watercolor paintings on paper said to have been produced by a patient at the now abandoned Seaside psychiatric hospital in Water...

Shopping for Pueblo Pottery Roadside Vendor Original Photograph c. 1930 collection Jim Linderman

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A pair of travelers stop to shop for early 20th Century Pueblo Pottery of unknown tribal affiliation. The enlarged photo might allow someon...

A curious Folk Art Watercolor Painting c. 1900 Collection Jim Linderman

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A curious Folk Art Watercolor Painting c. 1900, likely from Pennsylvania. On scrap paperfound in a scrap book. Anonymous. Collection Jim ...

Young girl in a foreboding Background Foreground Backdrop vintage photograph

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Quite a photo setting...a wonderful photograph sent here for my birthday from a collector who has a better eye then I! It looks scary, but...

African-American Yard Show Outsider Art Folk Art Environment Assemblage Art Alabama c. 1993

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Original photographs of a previously undocumented African-American Yard Show taken in the early 1990's by Mary Klein and Jim Linderman...