Pacific Theater Duffel Bag with painted by hand with Pinup. Circa 1945.
Collection Jim Linderman
From the continuing series Love During Wartime on Dull Tool Dim Bulb
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Love During Wartime Hand-painted Duffel Bag with Pinup
Pacific Theater Duffel Bag with painted by hand with Pinup. Circa 1945.
Collection Jim Linderman
From the continuing series Love During Wartime on Dull Tool Dim Bulb
Below Average Folk Art Calligraphy on a Trade Card
It looks like the young Gregg boy is practicing his calligraphy on the job...and he swoons for Sarah.
19th Century Trade Card with calligraphy and animal drawings.
Collection Jim Linderman
Antique Shaking Hands Memory Help Sewing Card
Folk Art Wood Loiterer circa 1920 Real Photo Postcard
Folk Art guard named "Sourdough" watches over the shop.
Real Photo Postcard c. 1920 Seattle Scenic Photo Publishing Co.
Collection Jim Linderman
The Hand Painted Signs of Joe Light, Memphis TN Southern Folk Artist Original Photographs by Jim Linderman
Joe Light was an African-American man from Tennessee, but he called himself an American Jew. He spoke his views to the neighborhood by messages posted on his house and shop. Later, he was encouraged to paint. Small works are seen mounted on his antique shop, and a number of paintings owned by the Souls Grown Deep collection can be seen here.
Original Photographs of Joe Light Environment c. 1993 by Jim Linderman
Cyanotype Machines of Blue
Did you know restaurant menus NEVER use blue ink? It is because blue has been shown to decrease the appetite. Think about it. From the Waffle House all the way to the Four Seasons, every shade of bright, vibrant and fresh appears, but blue is a no-no.
in 1842 Sir John Herschel invented the cyanotype, but it was a woman named Anna Atkins who turned it into an art. In one of the most arcane activities I can imagine, and for some curious reason, Dame Atkins decided to collect algae and save them by laying each on light-sensitized paper, creating some 400 images which were published in the first book of photographs. So the very first photograph book was not only published by a woman, it was composed entirely of blue photographs of seaweed. Only 17 copies exist today.
Cyanotypes must be the least expensive photography technique, as the once ubiquitous "blueprints" used by architects and home builders were cyanotypes.
The most extraordinary property of the cyanotype is it's regenerative behavior. Like a starfish with an arm torn off, they come back! They lose their blue easily, but if a faded cyanotype photograph is stored in a dark environment, a good deal of the original color will return like magic. Maybe we should print money in blue?
Pages from an unidentified book of industrial cyanotypes, no cover or date. Circa 1920
Collection Jim Linderman
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