With a skeleton on top and a whole family of faces below, this is one wonderful pole. It was built in 1904, created for Matt Larkin on the northwest coast (possibly by the Haida tribe) but then altered upon arrival in Albany, New York. The skeleton on top was added, as were the gentlemen around the middle (friends of the owner, who it is said was "father of the jukebox" ) and mounted on the grounds of his Burden Lake estate.
No actual tribe is identified, but it is certainly what we might call a marriage of cultures. Possibly Northwest origins with touches of Northeast drinking buddies? As you can see in my worn postcard, it is huge, dramatic and preservation worthy regardless.The pole stood until 1958 when a storm brought it down. 20 years later it went to the Marian E. White Anthropology Museum, who received it in 5 pieces. The museum contains one million artifacts with a concentration on Woodland tribes such as the Seneca. Being a composite project at best, and a "genuine Native American fake" at worst, the totem pole seems to be an anomaly. Maybe that is why restoration has been taking decades...a low priority? But then the museum world moves slow...The biggest pieces are displayed in the museum, others are still being worked on.
The laborious process is documented HERE with a really cool picture of the pole you can click on to to check progress.
Anonymous Photograph circa 1935? Collection Jim Linderman
Seems simple enough. On Reverse Elderblossom Wine
Handwritten recipe card, no date
CLICK TO ENLARGEI gave my Frank Wendt photographs to the International Center of Photography in NYC for a forthcoming show, but found a scan I made of an anonymous one man band he photographed. Wendt was an understudy of circus freak photographer Chas. Eisenmann who took over his studio and worked in the Bronx and later New Jersey.
Cabinet Card by Frank Wendt Untitled "One Man Band" circa 1890? collection International Center of Photography
Cooked to Perfection by Convection! A lovely Florida model sits on an induction coil apparatus in order to demonstrate skillet heat waves.Original Press Photograph 1939 Collection Jim Linderman
A group of Startling Detective Magazines I keep in a library periodical box behind me, just like in a real library! No, I do not keep them in date order. So that these were all published in the 1950s by Fawcett publications, a company founded by Wiliford "Captain Billy" Fawcett in 1919 is a good story, but I wanted a better one. So I fished around.My definition of genius is putting something old to a new use. Patterson Smith qualifies. Why? He uses his enormous database of True Crime magazines to help family members, genealogists and collectors find grisly tidbits from the tons of pulp produced from the 1930s to the 1990s. Now personally, If I were doing some family research I would selectively NOT include this source. Some of the goobers in these tales don't belong in any family, certainly not mine. But there you go. An enormous resource, as just one issue here includes 14 lengthy stories, all true, and each has dozens of names, though I am going to guess Mr. Smith doesn't index the names with an asterisk. You know...the names changed to protect the innocent. Check THIS out. Group of Startling Detective Magazines, 1956-1957 Collection Jim LindermanDULL TOOL DIM BULB / VINTAGE SLEAZE BOOK CATALOGFor MORE sleazy pulp of the past follow Vintage Sleaze Art the BLOG on Facebook.Vintage Sleaze
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