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Chapel in the Winter Woods
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Sheet Music Cover • J. Packer Litho • London • 11″ x 14″ • c.1850
Chalkboard Advertising
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Magazine Advertisement • for Clarence Crane • Garrettsville, Ohio • 11″ x 14″ • c.1925
Canadian Club Sign
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Store Counter Sign • for Canadian Club Tobacco Co. • 12″ x 16″ • c. 1925
Bullfrog Brand Carbon Paper
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Carbon Paper Box Top • for Newton-Rotherick Mfg Co. • Chicago • 9″ x 12″ • c.1900
Brock Fireworks
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Magazine Advertisement • for Brock Fireworks • Hertforshire, England • 10″ x 12″ • c.1925
Bovril Lady
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Advertising Trade Card • for Bovril Co. • Paris • 3″ x 5″ • c.1900
Black Knight Lochinvar
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Citrus Crate Label • for Gold Buckle Assn • East Highlands, California • 10″ x 10″ • c.1930
Black And White Rag
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Sheet Music Cover • Jerome Remick pub • New York City • 10″ x 12″ • c.1920
Be Strong Like a Lion
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Postcard • Czechoslovakia • 3″ x 5.5″ • c.1910
Beggar Children
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Advertising Trade Card • Stock Card • 4″ x 5″ • c.1885
Baltimore Oysters
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Advertising Die Cut • for Platt & Co. • Baltimore • 4″ x 6″ • c.1890
Art Nouveau Border
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Design Sample • Borders and Designs • 6″ x 8″ • 1900
Arcadia Clipper Ship Card
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Clipper Ship Card • • Watson & Clark • Boston • Glidden & Williams Line • 5″ x 7″ • c.1850
Angel in the Snow
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Lithographic Poster • Bruno Hessling Litho • Berlin, Germany • for Farben Fabriken, Hamburg • 10″ x 18″ • c.1920
A Garden Dance Music
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Sheet Music Cover • Sam Fox Publishing Co. • Cleveland, Ohio • 11″ x 16″ • c.1905
African Battle Design
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Book Illustration • 6″ x 8″ • 1930
Illustrations,Prints
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Illustrations,Prints
Fishing Party from The Rucker Archive
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These guys are going to have fun fishing. And – they have everything they could possibly need for their expedition. Showing it all off before the goods ever get used,…
Long Ago In Detroit – The Brown Family from The Rucker Archive
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When I first purchased a photo album from the 1880s, I did not know that the African-American members of that family were named Brown. But I did know that they…
Is This The First Cuban Baseball Card? asks The Rucker Archive
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This Cuban baseball card has me intrigued. The card shown, featuring a photo of the Almendares Blues – or Bando Azul, was advertised as a cabinet card, and indeed the…
Frontier of Lithograph Promotion from The Rucker Archive
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This is one of my favorite kind of lithographic promotion products – a tobacco crate label. Hordes of examples by the Hoen Litho Company of Richmond, turned up years ago…
Baseball player Marty Marion Flying In
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Baseball player Marty Marion takes advantage. The ball has come in – one bounce right smack in the palm of Chicago Cubs third baseman Stan Hack. Fleet footed Marty Marion…
Speed Skating
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I love photos of athletic events forgotten in time including speed skating. Those games and the photos they generated can be as appealing and handsome as any from big-time sports…
A Simple Baseball Tintype of Fremont Base Ball Club circa 1870s
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A simple baseball tintype of nine players lined up in an Iowa field, but so nicely composed, and taken outdoors, too. So many tintypes were made in the studio that…
Slavery Exposed! repost of Abolitionists Trade Cards Set
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Slavery exposed in this abolitionists trade cards set out of New Zealand is being re-posted in light of the recent film “Twelve Years a Slave”. We lived in Saratoga Springs…
Santa Claus on the Cover
Newspaper cover illustration
Check Out The Sylphs
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Recently I was able to select some photographs from a large collection of visual marvels including two Sylphs. I never had a photo of Sylph before; I never new of…
Camera Catches a Mudhens Meeting?
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The cameraman appears to have interrupted some kind of meeting taking place before a Mudhens baseball game in Toledo. The man with the papers appears to be laughing off the interjection,…
Selling Santa
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Poor old Santa Claus is nothing but a tool for merchants. This appears to have been true all the way back to his earliest days in the mid-19th Century. Originally,…
Sphinx Hi Jinx
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Cabinet card 1880
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