Folk Art Handmade Original Paint Greenhouse Sign Retro Vintage

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Hand Painted Sign for Star Greenhouses Big Rapids, MI. Hand cut letters and stars, original paint. Approx. Five feet long. Circa 1950 - 19...

Painted by Hand Envelope Cachet works which correspond to each city from which they originate! Unusual Art

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I firmly believe everyone should have a hobby, and this gent certainly did. In every town he would stop and paint the a work to represent it...

Three original drawings by Basil Merrett c. 1945 - 1950 Collection Jim Linderman Dull Tool Dim Bulb the Blog Outsider Art Art Brut Christmas

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Three hand-drawn Christmas pieces by Basil Merrett drawn while confined at the mental hospital Bedlam in London c. 1950. Other “occupants”...

Beatnik wannabee anonymous snapshot.

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BEATNIKS! Well, beatnik wannabe privileged white folk with a mural, anyway. They must have recently read a Life Magazine expose on the “Be...

Bizarre Real Photo Postcard of a group of strange paintings. RPPC

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A bizarre real photo postcard seemingly depicting a life gone wrong through 4 paintings. Some allegorical tale of which I do not know.I gue...

Calamity Ice Bombs and the Coming Super Man. D.W. Matter Marches from Hell

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The Coming World-Wide Calamity was originally published in 1943 and sold for a dime. There isn’t anything remarkable about it except the co...

Real Photo Postcard of Uncle Sam. Circa 1920 collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb

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Real Photo Postcard of Uncle Sam. Circa 1920 collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb

Sewing Card Set hand stitched 1927 Schoolgirl Art

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A Sewing Card Set created by 4th Grader Miss Lillian Ethel Wandel in 1927. The set was commercial (although the box indicates only an inven...

Soap Carving of a Prison and Prison Yard made from Ivory Soap c, 1930

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Prison (and prison yard) hand-carved from a bar of Ivory Soap. Circa 1930. Collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb #soapcarving. #iv...

Captain Hadacol and the Hadacol Bounce 25 cents off token

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America still runs on snake oil, but not like the good old days. Every few years, some criminal chemist discovers and markets a concoctio...

Thanksgiving Drawing from a Scrapbook circa 1940 Collection Jim Linderman

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Thanksgiving Drawing from a Scrapbook circa 1940 Collection Jim Linderman

Obsessive Portrait Drawings by Miss Daisy a Shut-in Outsider Artist

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Several years ago I received a package of over 200 original drawings by an elderly woman who drew one a day for a long time. Her caretaker ...

Bettie Boop and other drawings by Evelyn Anonymous 1935

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Some things I scan just because they should be preserved. 7 Drawings by Evelyn Unknown dated 1935 include Betty Boop and some early vamp...

Antique carved folk art “jumping man” articulated figure with original leather string

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Antique carved folk art “jumping man” articulated figure with original leather string 14” tall c. 1940 collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool...

Vixen Books of the 1950s. Vintage Sleaze from Greenwich Village and Gil Fox. (en excerpt from Times Square Smut by Jim Linderman)

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Vixen Press founder Gilbert (Gil) Fox was a Greenwich Village denizen. Mr. Fox had quite a circle of friends. Perhaps no one has paid atten...

Justin McCarthy “Jitney Jessie the Episode of Bessie the Beautiful Bandit” by Justin McCarthy c. 1920 - 1925

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“Jitney Jessie the Episode of Bessie the Beautiful Bandit” by Justin McCarthy c. 1920 - 1925 In a serial format of 13 drawings Justin McC...
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Big Nipper the RCA Dog

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Giant “Nipper” the RCA dog stands guard over the Kalamazoo Humane Society building in 1979. (Standing with him is my dog Crispus…RIP) Nipp...

Dr. Locke Famous Phony Faith Healer? Nah...Foot Doctor! 1933

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I'm a little busy today, so no story, though I am sure there is a good one. Just a few real photo postcards of a "faith healer...
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Bettie Page unseen amateur stereoview photographs c. 1955

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When I was doing research for my now out of print book Camera Club Girls (mostly the story of Bettie Page and the plethora of women who p...

George Laithwaite of Canada Concrete Sculptures Folk Art Environment

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It’s the cement garden of George Laithwaite in Canada created from 1912 to 1952. At the garden, historical figures consort with figures fr...