A Vintage Handmade Child's Miniature Cook Book Drawn by Hand. 4" x 6" with hand written recipes and some clipped from magazines of the time. Circa 1940 - 1945. Drawings and instructions by Carol Birkett with help from her friend Patty. 22 pages. Collection Jim Linderman
Vernacular photograph of an Anonymous Folk Art Carver. This photograph is not signed and has no identification of the maker. Looks to be fine work. I'm showing a detail, but there isn't much information cropped. This backyard rocker (rain or shine?) should have the work seen. In the folk art world, an artist often becomes recognized decades later in photos. Scanned images online often work as well as printed ones in newspapers, but if any of the following here knows the work? He was working when JFK was facing down a Ruskie, it appears.
Backyard photograph of an anonymous folk art carver, no location, circa 1965?
Collection Dull Tool Dim Bulb / Jim Linderman
Scenes from a Texas Immersion Baptism. Each stamped on reverse 1927 San Antonio. Photographer Carl D. Newton. Collection Jim Linderman
A pair of vernacular snapshots of a sand sculptor at work near the turn of 19th century. The location is likely Ashbury Park or Atlantic City. There were several skilled sand builders working the New Jersey Shore around 1915. I suspect this is either Jas. J. Taylor (who was known for his depictions of Cupid) or Lorenz Harris. Harris was apparently an African-American artist and one of several who displayed their work for tips. This boardwalk tradition was eventually banned from the beaches in 1944. Postcards of the era (both real photo postcards and more widely sold printed versions) were common. This pair are among the few actual snapshots which have turned up. More information on the art and artists is found HERE in the magazine of the American Folk Art Museum. Note monkey gazing at his reflection in a mirror!
African-American Folk Art Sand Sculpture from the New Jersey Shore Pair of Snapshots c. 1915
Collection Jim Linderman courtesy Invisible Commute.
Georgia Folk Artist R. A. Miller paints a Snake.
Original Photo Jim Linderman c. 1995
Freckles the Vent. Composite materials over wood frame. Circa 1960. Collection Dull Tool Dim Bulb. Books and Affordable Ebooks by the author HERE.
Time and Death. Pair of salvaged Fraternal Society Paintings from a Banner. Likely early 20th century. Oil Paint on Linen. Signed as M. K. Mengle. Collection Dull Tool Dim Bulb
Antique Folk Art Drawing 19th Century Naive Therorem Urn with Flowers. Pennsylvania origin. Pencil on Paper. Signed Job Wagner dated 1883. 6" x 7".
Collection Dull Tool Dim Bulb
A duck walking man.
Original Snapshot no date (c. 1935?)
Missouri Lee Jellum Photo Shop.
Collection Dull Tool Dim Bulb
Vintage Amateur Original Drawings for Famous Monsters of Filmland Magazine submitted by a boy. Famous Monsters was started in 1958 and ran until 1983 with 191 issues. Later, a revival from 1993 brought it back and it continues today. These drawings were submitted for publication in a "submitted by fans" section of the magazine. While I do not know if any were printed, the editor Forrest J. Ackerman kept this collection for decades in his private collection until passing. There are some 50 drawings which reveal a young talent under the spell of prominent monsters (and monster films) of the 1950s and 1960s.
Collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb
Vintage Folk Art Birdhouse with Galvanized Steel Roof, a metal perch and a leather belt. Circa 1950 Collection Dull Tool Dim Bulb.
Three Big Bears Antique Folk Art Bear Masks. Height 16" - 18"
Collection Dull Tool Dim Bulb / Jim Linderman
Reefer Madness Comics is hilarious! Craig Yoe and Steven Thompson have pulled together over 200 pages of rare comic book parables from the 1940s and 1950s in full color! Plus a few later "public safety" comic book warnings to the nation's youth. This in the era of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions the Third, our miniature porcine "law and order" top gun. He won't get the joke, and he wouldn't understand the value or humor of these vintage "don't do it" publications. Full of horror stories and comic book illustrator's attempts to show the effects of the first toke on Satan's Cigarettes. Dreamy! That is, until they are hooked.
I write this on 4/20 day. Another year of celebration and mourning for the 1,522,579 who were arrested for stinkweed in the United States last year. 84% were arrested for possession only. This while 22 states have lenient marijuana laws and others have medical licenses for those who need treatment. How about this? 200,000 students have lost their federal financial aid eligibility because of drug convictions. Local police budgets benefit, of course.
Want to set a kid out on his future in the job market with a drug conviction? That is like recruiting for the cartels.
Reefer Madness Comics includes an informed historical essay and some twenty full stories from the past for (currently) $13.59 on Amazon. You will not regret the purchase. This book is hilarious, and your friends caught up in the dope menace will think so too.
Craig Yoe is HERE.
Reefer Madness Comics on Amazon is HERE
A Folk Art Carved Parsnip! From "American Scenery Lake George Views Stereoview card
Lamson and Smith Photographers. 19th Century. Collection Jim Linderman
Thanks to Invisible Commute.
