Spring Longing. Mattress Swing Hammock South Carolina Circa 1992 Original Photograph by Jim Linderman
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Mattress Swing Hammock Spring Longing photo by Jim Linderman
Spring Longing. Mattress Swing Hammock South Carolina Circa 1992 Original Photograph by Jim Linderman
Schoolgirl Handmade Sewing Instruction Book Antique Vintage Old
Mid-20th Century Sewing handmade sewing class book. Mixed-media. Collection Jim Linderman
Vintage Gem Duplicator Grainy Pinup Girls on Colored Paper
Likely created by a Gem duplicator which was sold out of St. Louis. A crappy little machine no larger than a hankie box. It was marketed as a way of "making your own postcards" in the 1940s, I believe. These could have been run off on a competing product. It isn't too hard to find the mechanical duplicator in a box on the web, but actual prints are less common. These are good examples of cheap home technology meeting the gals and gams of post-war folly. They have a nice "etching" like shading.
Group of home duplicator pinup girls on paper Collection Jim Linderman
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Trio of Handmade Folk Art Marble Game Boards made by the same hand circa 1955
A trio of folk art game boards by the same hand. Odd to see three like this together now… but they collectively make up a "mid-century modern graphic" oddity for the wall. Cabin decor class! Circa 1955? Each just over 16" x 16.
A commercial version of the game was manufactured in 1960, but I am going to guess guys had been making this marble game for decades in the basement. Hobbyist and woodworking magazines were full of this kind of thing around the 1950s. But how were three boards by the same hand re-assembled into one collection 50+ years later?
I speculate each was eventually given BACK to the maker long after they were gifted. Maybe Pop made a set for each of his kids? All found and assembled into a collection by a picker? All three have bread board ends, which were hand built, and all drilled with the same precision. Each shows different use and wear, each has age and all three were found together at an antique shop. One has a taped "rules" sheet affixed still.
Trio of Handmade Folk Art Marble Game Boards circa 1955 Collection Jim Linderman
Mysterious and Thrilling Atomic Energy Circus with Dancing Static Girl
Well, it's not really Atomic Energy which makes the little guys twirl, it's static. Still, static seems to be a powerful force! It's ripped the panties right from the paper-thin dancing woman! Thrilling! "Mysterious" Sorta like Fukishima!
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Big Blly Cox and his Football Friends Art from the Sports Trades
Anonymous crayon drawings of football players, circa 1950 Collection Jim Linderman
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Vintage photographs of mystery and science. In SOUNDS FROM THE AIR
one will find pictures of the invisible. The presence of audible waves
as captured by anonymous photographers. Mysterious and beautiful
visions in sepia. The language of ether. Collected and curated, the
pictures generate the buzz of static without making a noise. 78 pages.
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Vintage Shoe Design by Lucien Guilbert Circa 1940 - 1950 original drawings Spring forward in Style!
Vintage SHOE FASHION ILLUSTRATION SKETCHES BY LUCIEN E GUILBERT. Prolific Shoe Designer of the 1940's and 1950's. The designer worked out of St. Louis during the 1940s and 1950s. Monseuir Guilbert designed shoes for high-end stores including some in New York City such as Nordstroms, Lazarus, Lord & Taylors and similar department stores as well as small specialty shops. Some 150 drawings were sold in a lot several years ago. Collection Jim Linderman
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Long lost childhood craft? Antique Folk Art paper cut colorful whatever!
Folk Art paper cutting colorful whatever! I don't know a name for the technique. Paper cutting for sure, as the top portion was folded and cut...then glued atop a second piece of paper which seems to have been painted first. Paper stained glass! If there is someone out there with a name for this (or these) let me know. Maybe a school teacher who was working around the turn of the century?
Collection Jim Linderman
Woman with Trombone Folk Art Carving Anonymous
Woman with Trombone Folk Art Carving highly reminiscent of the pieces carved by Earl Eyman. Just over 6 inches tall. No Date.
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Mexican VEA Magazine for Pinups 1950s. Rare South of the Border Pulp Magazine.
Can anyone make a blog post which isn't political these days? To think a day would come (again…) when showing the Mexican people are just like us is necessary? Look. They had pin-ups just like we did! I am not surprised after the election, as we were given every indication the new choice of the Republican party was a horrid man. Still a whole lot of people voted against humanity, civil rights and equality. Still we should seriously work on fixing that. I don't pray much, but pray for the midterms. It might be our last chance.
I first wrote about and scanned some issues of Vea five years ago and have continued to pick them up when I can. So I am running the piece again below. Enjoy it. By the way, learn to get along with and appreciate everyone, will you? Jeez! Read these words and think about it this time. The United States is a nation of immigrants and what makes us special is that we care about everyone. Our culture, which is the greatest export we HAVE, wouldn't be what it is if we were not a melting pot.
VEA is a pretty hard magazine to find copies of these days. Vea
ran in the 1940s and 1950s, and when you figure in acid-based paper,
climate and censorship, you’ll know why they don’t turn up often. Do not
confuse it with Vea the Puerto Rican gossip magazine, or Vea which came
from Chile. Search hard and you will see a few issues on Fred
Seibert’s flickr stream, but that’s about it. I found a handful to
purchase recently, and I wish I had them all.
VEA was a weekly pulp periodical which ran for years but was
apparently often in trouble with the law, largely due to Niuglo’s spicy
muchachas. The magazine was a menudo of news, bullfighting reports,
pulp fiction (with illustrations that look like Charles Burns on peyote)
and breasts, which is where Nuiglo comes in. There is really nothing
to compare the magazine to in the states then or now, but it was similar
to the Folies De Paris et de Holllywood magazine from France which was
running the same time. Some of the Harrison mags like Whisper maybe.
Large format, large on style and striking today.
Flipping through them makes me think it is time for a 1950s Mexican
revival. The best reason to find some VEA is the pioneer Mexican
fashion and glamour photographer known only (but not known WELL) as
NIUGLO. Niuglo’s photos were so good they often graced front and back
cover simultaneous in vibrant candy colors, but the ones inside were
printed in burnt sienna brown. There was frontal nudity, a considerable
amount…but nothing below the waist.
Scarce and forgotten, but someone is paying attention. These are worthy of saving.
Bright scholar Ageeth Sluis recently wrote “Projecting Pornography and Mapping Modernity in Mexico City” for the Journal of Urban History which drew upon the images in VEA. A portion of the abstract reads: By analyzing depictions of female nudity as conversant with urban landscapes in the banned magazine Vea, the author argues that pornography connected Mexico City to transnational ideas of the early twentieth century that held that sexually liberated women were part and parcel of cosmopolitan modernity. Vea exemplified and fueled concerns over “public women” and helps scholars understand larger debates on the gendered effects of revolution, urbanization, and transnational currents of global modernity. NICE!
Bright scholar Ageeth Sluis recently wrote “Projecting Pornography and Mapping Modernity in Mexico City” for the Journal of Urban History which drew upon the images in VEA. A portion of the abstract reads: By analyzing depictions of female nudity as conversant with urban landscapes in the banned magazine Vea, the author argues that pornography connected Mexico City to transnational ideas of the early twentieth century that held that sexually liberated women were part and parcel of cosmopolitan modernity. Vea exemplified and fueled concerns over “public women” and helps scholars understand larger debates on the gendered effects of revolution, urbanization, and transnational currents of global modernity. NICE!
I’ve put in a note to Ms Sluis, and if additional information results I’ll be glad to add it.
Even better, an outstanding set of original negatives of erotic images which have been attributed to Niuglo
were discovered in 1996 and recently exhibited (in 2002) by photographer
Merrick Morton at the Fototeka Gallery in Los Angeles. Attributed might
be too strong a word, as it was speculation, and there were several
other “house” photographers doing the pinup photography for VEA.
Selected images of this cache were printed in editions and sold. The
certainly have the look, and they look wonderful.
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