Erotic Folk Art Nude Reclining Woman Relief Carved Sculpture
11" x 21"
Collection Jim Linderman
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Erotic Folk Art Nude Reclining Woman Relief Carved Sculpture
Erotic Folk Art Nude Reclining Woman Relief Carved Sculpture
11" x 21"
Collection Jim Linderman
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SOUNDS FROM THE AIR! New Book by Jim Linderman available from Blurb.
The NEW Book by Jim Linderman is SOUNDS FROM THE AIR! It explores the power of vintage photographs to show that which is not there! Visions of sound waves and the magic of radio is told in 78 pages of anonymous photographs. The language of ether revealed! $19.99 paperback, $8.99 instant PDF download.
Facing the Sun Family Portrait circa 1940 Michigan Vintage Snapshot
Facing the Sun Family Portrait circa 1940 Michigan
Collection Jim Linderman Books and Ebooks available HERE
Drilling Down in a Vintage Photograph. Stories inside a Photo
Drilling Down in a Vintage Photograph. Stories inside a Photo.
Flynn's has The Evening Graphic, the Dispatch, the Tribune, The Observer, the World, the Telegram and the Sun. Take your pic! Plus Baseball Magazine for the fellas and Screen Romances for the gals.
Hmm. Judge Crater is missing on one paper. That will date the rack. 1930. Political operatives croaked him. Two women he was involved with left town quick when he went missing, and a third was murdered. His safe deposit box was empty. The third woman, a prominent hooker (who entertained Crater) had mob ties and was a friend of Jack "Legs" Diamond. They rubbed her out like bug. She had been set to testify about graft, and Judge Crater's coat was found in her apartment after she was deep-sixed. The scandal eventually led to the collapse of crooked mayor Jimmie Walker.
The Judge was never found, but was declared dead in 1937. For years after, "Judge Crater, call your office" was a gag for comedians. He is still missing.
HEY! It's Jeanette MacDonald on the cover of Screen Romances! October 1930. It's the first issue! She was on plenty of magazine covers back then. She was quite an item, holding a secret torrid love affair with Nelson Eddy for years. I guess. I dunno. A super popular redhead, a good singer and a starch conservative. Of course she had numerous flings, and she ended up married to Gene Raymond, who was arrested three times for having sex with men. It appears to have been an arranged marriage, but it stuck. He was once arrested in a vice raid on a "homosexual nightclub" and once after physically abusing the actress, Nelson Eddy rushed over and kicked his ass. Oh Jeannette…whey didn't you marry Eddy? I wonder if her complicated life was the motivation for founding of the magazine.
What else do we have in the press. Car crash, sports shit. You gotta know your team to place your bets. Then and now betting on your team was an expensive pastime for some. All in all, 1930 was a cruddy time. The depression, illegal booze, segregated everything…and the mob was growing like Microsoft and Apple did in the 1990s.
Here is the Baseball Magazine. October 1930 also. The big article in this issue was the invention of night baseball! They thought it was a fad.
Collier's (up on top, but hidden) was a weekly, so it's not clear what was on the cover.
As for Flynn's Stationary, it was apparently founded in 1901. After having retail operations for decades, is now primarily a web-based business. If this is the same company, the location here could be 43 East 59th Street, from which they operate now. On the other hand, the way retail space changes in NYC, this cute little shop could have been anywhere. With all the sunglasses on display (not to mention children's sand toys…) I was guessing this was a shop on the way to the beach… but then voila, it could be a block from Central Park! One would enter the park on the south east side, near the pond. I image in plenty of nanny's stopping to pick up some toys for junior and some shades. Too bad their location is now sullied by being a stones throw from Trump Tower…Shudder. Still a guess, but possible. I have no idea if Flynn's operated a chain of stores or where this one was. This shop could have been one of a dozen for all I know. Who does a promotional photo without showing the address? The Topic Sign Company who commissioned it. They don't care. It's just another page in their press kit…the photo was printed on linen and has punched holes for a book.
Back then the famous Central Park Sheep Meadow HAD SHEEP. On the other hand, it was also the depression and out of work men lived in shacks (and desperation) in the park. Known as "Hooverville" I can only hope it never comes back. Period photos show a pretty sparse and sad place at the time. I'm not sure it was appropriate for kids except scruffy urchins. I have walked on the rock here...it's still there. Hooverville's were all over the country. When it happens again, Hooverville will be composed of "the middle class" and the city will put up charging stations for your phone.
The Flynn's photo is credited to M. Baer Salov from Montclair, NJ. It appears most of his work was done in the big city. A shutterbug working stiff who didn't amount to much. A similar photo by Salov on ebay now is shown below.
More of Salov's work is shown in the Montclair Public Library site
A Lending Library! I suppose even then the big New York Public Library was a pain. The Mid-Manhattan branch, which opened far later, provides quick access to circulating books now, but then? I'm not sure what the circulation policy of the big library was then. Let's borrow one from Flynn's. I imagine pickings were slim at the shop…but it is a good idea to get customers inside.
They developed film…as did everyone before digital. Drop it off, a day or few later, pick them up. A fine Kodak promotional sign.
The "Erected by The Topic Sign Company" inscription on the photo is odd. This hardly looks like an erection. More like a haphazard window display anyone could do.
Tradition Cigar was a Philadelphia company. A striking Tradition Cigar display which shows both cowboys and indians loved the brand. Those filthy stogies were a big item then, and appropriately the shop gives them an entire window. Tradition was owned by Bayuk (the parent company name) but they had more luck with Phillies. THEY were so popular other companies kept stealing their brand. The oval painted signs atop each window were placed by the Garcia Grande cigar company.
Flynn's photograph by M. Baer Salov 1930. Collection Jim Linderman
Flynn's has The Evening Graphic, the Dispatch, the Tribune, The Observer, the World, the Telegram and the Sun. Take your pic! Plus Baseball Magazine for the fellas and Screen Romances for the gals.
The Judge was never found, but was declared dead in 1937. For years after, "Judge Crater, call your office" was a gag for comedians. He is still missing.
What else do we have in the press. Car crash, sports shit. You gotta know your team to place your bets. Then and now betting on your team was an expensive pastime for some. All in all, 1930 was a cruddy time. The depression, illegal booze, segregated everything…and the mob was growing like Microsoft and Apple did in the 1990s.
As for Flynn's Stationary, it was apparently founded in 1901. After having retail operations for decades, is now primarily a web-based business. If this is the same company, the location here could be 43 East 59th Street, from which they operate now. On the other hand, the way retail space changes in NYC, this cute little shop could have been anywhere. With all the sunglasses on display (not to mention children's sand toys…) I was guessing this was a shop on the way to the beach… but then voila, it could be a block from Central Park! One would enter the park on the south east side, near the pond. I image in plenty of nanny's stopping to pick up some toys for junior and some shades. Too bad their location is now sullied by being a stones throw from Trump Tower…Shudder. Still a guess, but possible. I have no idea if Flynn's operated a chain of stores or where this one was. This shop could have been one of a dozen for all I know. Who does a promotional photo without showing the address? The Topic Sign Company who commissioned it. They don't care. It's just another page in their press kit…the photo was printed on linen and has punched holes for a book.
A Lending Library! I suppose even then the big New York Public Library was a pain. The Mid-Manhattan branch, which opened far later, provides quick access to circulating books now, but then? I'm not sure what the circulation policy of the big library was then. Let's borrow one from Flynn's. I imagine pickings were slim at the shop…but it is a good idea to get customers inside.
The "Erected by The Topic Sign Company" inscription on the photo is odd. This hardly looks like an erection. More like a haphazard window display anyone could do.
Flynn's photograph by M. Baer Salov 1930. Collection Jim Linderman
Black Beauty Anonymous African-American slide photographs from West Coast
Collection Jim Linderman
Elvis : The Last Tour The Last photos and Why the King NEVER performed outside the US Original Photos Collection Jim Linderman
Elvis : The Last Tour The last photos and Why the King NEVER performed outside the US.
The king is not looking too well here. A group of never published photographs found in Michigan. Indeed Elvis played Michigan several times during his end times. Having been pushed to the limit by fame and his crooked, greedy manager Col. Tom Parker. He was near collapse. Sure enough, he dropped. Elvis spent a week in the hospital from April 1 to April 6, 1977, but a few weeks later there he was again. A night in Detroit. A night in Ann Arbor. One in Saginaw. A show in the hockey rink in Kalamazoo. BACK to Saginaw a week later for another gig.
Colonel Tom Parker took 50%.
You know the protocol. There were a few shows cancelled due to "intestinal flu" or "toothache" but he rolled on. He died several months later.
He was performing well enough, some say. Live gigs on the 1977 tour were captured for a concert film and albums. When Dr. Nick had him jacked-up with as many drugs as Elvis took, he could get through a show. The concert film was canned, as it showed a man clearly on the brink, but greed caused it to be released not long after his death. Greed.
Why did Elvis NEVER PLAY OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES? Other than three or so gigs in Canada (back when a passport was not required to cross the border) Parker never once put the King on display unless he was on American soil. At least one offer of a million dollars in Australia was turned down. Can you imagine if he had played Japan? 20 sold out shows in a row in any Japanese venue. Europe?
Colonel Tom Parker was an illegal Immigrant who feared he would not be able to return to the US if he left. That was the reason. Some even speculate he was "on the run" from a murder he committed in Europe as a young man. He was Dutch born. He made it to the US and claimed he was born in West Virginia. He never had a passport. A manager on the lam.
Original Unpublished Photographs of Elvis 1977 Anonymous. Collection Jim Linderman Each signed on the reverse "E C"
Old Michigan Handmade Ice Fishing Decoy Folk Art
Old Michigan Ice Fishing Decoy Folk Art Circa 1940? Likely Michigan origin.
Collection Jim Linderman
Large Antique Church Revival Banner Folk Art Teaching Tool Circa 1925 Collection Jim Linderman
Books on Folk Art by the author available for purchase or preview HERE
Outsider Art African American Yard Show Sculpture Alabama c. 1990 Photographs by Jim Linderman Television in the Driveway
Outsider Art African American Yard Show Sculpture Alabama c. 1990 Photographs by Jim Linderman Television in the Driveway high atop a pole. See also the BOOK and EBOOK by Jim Linderman In-Situ: American Folk and Outsider Art in Place available HERE.
Fifteen Reasons The Second Coming is Near Frederick Childe Revelation Chart Teaching Tool 1927
Prophecies of Daniel and revelation compared: Being an outline of chart lectures given by Frederick W. Childe 1927. Chart Insert Collection Jim Linderman
Vintage Photograph Navajo Rug Seller and Rough n' Tough Tenderfoot
Navajo rug seller shows his wares to what I can only suspect is a tenderfoot. I have written the story of the "Drugstore Cowboy" before on his blog...I am going to guess Jasper here traveled from out east to see the desert, and I am going to also guess his feet hurt from his stiff new boots. His crisp new Stetson makes the mountain look small. I don't blame him, it's still a wonderful and magical trip. A few nights in Santa Fe and environs will change your life.
Do those chaps even fit in the touring car? "Put the front seat down, dear...my chaps won't bend at the knee" Jasper seems to be interested in pawn jewelry too.
Navajo rugs are among the most beautiful objects of art ever produced. While they may have taken a woman months to make, the return was small. Still, it provided a meager living.
Original snapshot (detail) circa 1930s Collection Jim Linderman
Thanks to Curley's Antiques
Erotic Folk / Outsider Art by Asa "ACE" Moore circa 1935 Early Visions of Black Sexuality
Asa "Ace" Moore African-American outsider artist who created erotic and sexual works in ink and pencil during the 1930s. Certainly in private. Personal visions of his own, and produced during a time when even African-American's questioned their own beauty. As such, these are likely among the earliest depictions of sexuality and eroticism by a Black artist in the United States. It took as long as 1974 for Vogue Magazine to put an African-American model on their cover, and even Hefner resisted until 1971. Racism was so extreme and brutal in the 1930s, images of Black sexuality were virtually unknown. In 1968, when James Brown sang "Say it Loud, I'm Black and Proud" he was literally convincing his own race of their worth...and that was 30 years after these drawings were created. Some are far too risque to allow here...but Mr. Moore created at least 38 works. Some appear on the Museum of Uncut Funk site HERE
Drawings by Asa "Ace" Moore circa 1935 Collection Jim Linderman
FLASH GORDON GROWS A BEARD and Drawing Outside the Line
FLASH GORDON GROWS A BEARD and Drawing Outside the Line. Original period crayon embellishment to Flash Gordon coloring book 1968 Collection Jim Linderman
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