Indian Apple Glove Company Santa, Size 8. Circa 1930. Collection Jim Linderman
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Indian Apple Glove Company Santa, Size 8. Circa 1930. Collection Jim Linderman
Holiday Rush got you Down? Try Derck's Simple-Fyer
It doesn't matter if your problems involve determining the "small end of a reamer" or the "thickness of a Woodruf key size" the Simple-Fyer is the answer. Body Drill? Basic OD of a screw? Threads per inch or fine versus coarse? A cardboard disc with multiple circles, any Christmas problem involving sines, cosines, tangents, cotangents, secants or even CO-secants are no problem with the Simple-Fyer. This year, save time with Derck's. Only one dollar at all Cardboard Gauge Dial stores!
Derck's Gauge Dial, 1943. Collection Jim Linderman
Striking Photographs by John Stryker. Fast Modern Action Pictures of the Rodeo
The modest little postcard folder I found here opens up a striking world...Stryker's world! A regional photographer who deserves to be rediscovered, John A. Stryker obtained his first camera in 1916 while occupied as a penmanship teacher and was soon attracted to more adventurous activity. Stryker began photographing the local cowboys and rodeos. I don't know what type of lens he used, but these images would almost qualify him to take pictures in a war zone with combat pay. Kodak thought so as well and used one of his pictures in an early advertising campaign. Stryker also used his voice to advantage at the rodeo. Blessed with a barreling baritone larger than those rodeo clowns hid in, it is said he could be heard 3/4 of a mile away without a microphone. So while taking pictures, he became a rodeo announcer and was soon hired by no less than the Ringling Brothers to announce acts!
After years traveling with the circus, Stryker retired to Fort Worth and spent the rest of his life taking pictures. In addition to many postcards, he sold images for restaurant place mats and through mail order. The images here are from "Stryker's Famous Rodeo Folder Number Three" and the postcard book became a catalog for selling enlargements at $1.00 each, but "if special, made to order glossy prints are wanted for reproduction, advertising and publicity" one is instructed to write for prices. He sold photos up to 40 x 60 inches in size and would "travel anywhere to make up-to-date pictures of rodeos, ranches, historical sites...and individual poses of fine cattle, horses or mounted people" and at one time, his inventory contained 1200 photos.
Stryker's work is held in the Lamb collection at the National Cowboy Museum and in thousands of postcard collections. I based much of the above on the history provided in Buffalo County Historical Society newsletter by Mardith Anderson.
"Famous Stryker's Collection of Modern Fast Action Pictures" postcard folder circa 1950 Collection Jim Linderman
Boys on Top RPPC Real Photo Postcard
"NOKO" Real Photo postcard Anonymous c. 1900? Collection Jim Linderman
Carny in a Pork Pie Hat At the Circus in Black and White (in color)
What is cooler than a slim strutting carny in a pork pie hat? One in COLOR! An exceptional exception to my "at the circus in black and white" posts. This a snapshot pasted on a page of circus scrapbook. Circa 1950? A tall drink of water, our slim striding sideshow side hand!
As a further aside, if you like sideshow folk, my Wondrous World of Frank Wendt site has some splendid examples, as does the Fringepop site.
Carnival sideshow Photograph, anonymous. Circa 1950. Collection Jim Linderman
Things to Make Crepe Paper Buffalo Bill Cody
May Houser and her Buffalo Bill (to whom I am proudly related (!) constructed from crepe paper and discarded ladies gloves. Prizewinner!
Original Press Photograph, 1946. Collection Jim Linderman
Where Babies Come From: Competing Illustrations Dull Tool Dim Bulb
BOTH illustrations appear in the May 1957 issue of Sexology: Sex Science Illustrated Volume 23 Number 10.
Where Warhol got the Heinz ?
Hand-drawn tracings from 1927 Heinz Kindergarten Book "Pictures to Trace" Collection Jim Linderman
Fooled and Fooled Again Design of Magic Japan
Japanese Card Trick circa 1950, collection Jim Linderman
"How He Looked" Place your Head Here Remnant
The remaining portion of a "place your head here" box from Holy Land environment in Waterbury, Connecticut.
Original Photograph (detail) Jim Linderman 1994
Odd Fellows Redwork Fraternal Lodge Quilt 1907
I don't collect folk art anymore, but who can help looking...and I certainly couldn't leave it in the pile I found it. A nice, in fact, quite nice signature Odd Fellows fraternal quilt with all the appropriate symbols, each of the TWENTY squares proudly made by the wife of one of the members. This was made for display in the lodge, not for warmth, and some squares are better executed than others giving it a lovely primitive appeal. Sorry it was too cold to take it outside and photo it properly. Real folk art isn't often seen these days. I put it on ebay where I will break even and someone who appreciates my find will hopefully display it properly.
Redwork Fraternal Odd Fellows Quilt, Dated 1907, Michigan Lodge.
Horrors in Wax # 14 The SECOND Wax Oswald!
Another installment in my Horrors of Wax series, and this one is my SECOND Wax Oswald. So which Wax Oswald did the dirty Dallas deed? Neither...but there certainly were at least two Oswalds made of wax, and to prove it to all you conspiracy buffs here they are, BOTH IN THE SAME PLACE AT THE SAME TIME! The other post focuses more on Wax Jack Ruby. Click Blue subject heading below to see the entire "Horrors of Wax" series.
"Wax Oswald patiently waits for triangulation fire signal from Umbrella Man" (my title) Wax Museum Postcard, circa 1965 Collection Jim Linderman
Sparse Circus (At the Circus in Black and White)
Click to enlarge. Hard to believe, but I THINK they've set up a ticket booth, so they're CHARGING for this ride. Snapshot, circa 1925? Likely Michigan. Collection Jim Linderman
Jim Linderman "Best Art Books of the Year" Oxford American
HERE Oxford American selects Jim Linderman and Lance Ledbetter Take Me to the Water for "Best Art Books of the Year" column. A subscription to this magazine would be well received by anyone, I have admired and read it for years, in particular the music issue.
The Greatest Masterpiece and The Missing Painting
Circa 1935 postcard with "missing painting" gummed insert "canvas" to affix a picture of a loved one (or to mail a picture of yourself to one) Unmailed. Colllection Jim Linderman
The Bizarre Erotic Outsider Art of B. E. RIDDICK
Examples of the outsider art by African-American Outsider Artist B. E. Riddick, who drew on flattened shopping bags and other paper circa 1970
Ta DA! Flipped Mirror RPPC from ANITA
Pretty hot, eh? Dearest Anita flipped it over for me! She's the BEST. We've corresponded, she is a bright young woman with a splendid eye and splendid blog and seemingly splendid life! Follow!
Novelty Reverse Risque Real Photo Postcard RPPC
Now HERE is an unusual real photo postcard. I apologize for not having mirror software...you'll have to lug your computer over to the mirror in the hallway. Caption reads "SOME CALVES AT THE ROPING CONTEST July 4th Dewey OK" but what appears to depict some hooves passing a fence is in fact some lovely legs of well-heeled women taken from under the grandstand bleachers. I suppose in 1911, it was so taboo to show dames gams, they had to resort to this convoluted deception. Note: Photoshop has a mirror effect, reverse technique which will allow one to "flip" an image. If anyone out there has the time, mail it back to me and i'll post it!
Real Photo Postcard Dewey Oklahoma 1911, Collection Jim Linderman
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