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¡Feliz Día de los Muertos!

joel webb posted an article on - Nov 1, 2009, 10:15 pm
Muerte en cruceta; by Lola Cueto, 1947 La bohemia de la muerte; anonymous, 1958 El crepusculo de la noche, in Tricolor no. 35; July-August 1924 El Hospital Juárez - (Ironia); by Carlos Neve, 1951 ...
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Avant-garde's Letterhead

joel webb posted an article on - Oct 27, 2009, 11:53 am
The following are from Elaine Lustig Cohen and Ellen Lupton's book Letters from the Avant Garde: Modern Graphic Design, most of which came from Elaine Lustig Cohen's personal collection. Elain...
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More from the 1905-1906 Russian Underground Press

joel webb posted an article on - Oct 12, 2009, 7:53 pm
A few months back I posted images from 1905-1906 Russian revolutionary periodicals that I found at Yale University’s digital library. Recently I (accidentally) came across a related book called Bloo...
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Relating to Quacks, Quackery and Nostrums, Part. 1

joel webb posted an article on - Oct 7, 2009, 12:21 am
"Quack is a pejorative term, disparagingly, albeit sometimes defensively, applied by a member of the establishment, the orthodox, regular, professional, credentialed and accepted class to describe the...
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Year of the Monkey Postcards

joel webb posted an article on - Sep 5, 2009, 9:15 pm
About a week ago Amy at Aqua Velvet posted some remarkable Japanese Postcards from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Here are more Japanese postcards from the same collection, all related to the Year of...
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Collages of Wilfried "Sätty" Podriech

joel webb posted an article on - Sep 2, 2009, 11:22 am
I first saw the work of Wilfried "Sätty" Podriech a few weeks back at the California History Museum, which was showing his collages of Gold Rush illustrations. They were surreal and fantastic and I ...
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George Cooke Caricatures

joel webb posted an article on - Sep 1, 2009, 1:12 pm
George Cooke was a caricatures artist who drew Edwardian music hall performers for the Grand Theatre of Varieties, in Hanley Worcestershire. He compiled them in a series of albums. This is the fronti...
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Japanese Postcards of the Russo-Japanese War

joel webb posted an article on - Aug 21, 2009, 6:15 pm
"By the early twentieth century, convergent Russian and Japanese imperial ambitions in the Far East reached the boiling point over Manchuria. In February 1904 Japan attacked and sank much of the Russi...
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Theatre Magazine

joel webb posted an article on - Aug 19, 2009, 5:42 pm
Founded in 1900 as a pictorial quarterly called Our Players, it changed its name to The Theatre in May of 1901 when it became a monthly edited by Arthur Hornblow. Subsequently it was known as Theatre ...
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Programs of Boar's Head Dramatic Society

joel webb posted an article on - Aug 17, 2009, 10:08 pm
"The Boar's Head Dramatic Society of Syracuse University was initiated by a small group of students in the spring of 1903. This group recognized the need for an on-campus organization that was sol...
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Film Poster Paintings from Ghana

joel webb posted an article on - Aug 9, 2009, 5:16 pm

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The Cornell Widow

joel webb posted an article on - Aug 6, 2009, 10:48 am

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Magician Souvenir Programs

joel webb posted an article on - Aug 3, 2009, 2:00 pm
The Floyds: Magic and Mystery (1900s) Boughton (1907) Ray Newton: Mystic Entertainer (1910) Floyd (1910s) Bennett Springer: Conjurer (1911) Duval-Baldi Company (1920s) Marlo the Great (Cleveland...
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Tibetan Anatomical Paintings

joel webb posted an article on - Jul 23, 2009, 6:08 pm

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Lebanese Political Posters

joel webb posted an article on - Jul 20, 2009, 12:54 pm
The Progressive Socialist Party The Progressive Socialist Party The South - Lebanese National Movement (Anonymous, c. 1978-9) The Assault on Saida is an Assault on the National Resistance (Omran Ka...
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