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January
01/30/2005
Indian Chiefs
These tobacco cards are from the Emergence
of Advertising in America: 1850-1920 from Duke University.

Sitting Bull
Performing Arts
in America 1875-1923
The Siamese Twins poster is from the Poster and Lobby cards section and Ruth
St. Denis is from the Photographs section.

Siamese Twins

Ruth St. Denis (1912)
World War I
and II Posters
This is a huge collection from the University of Minnesota Librarie.

WSS War Poster
American
Indians of the Pacific Northwest Collection

Cheyenne
Woxie Haury
Parastone
Mouseion collection
The Hiëronymus
Bosch figures are magnificent! I wonder how much they cost?

Helmeted Bird Monster From
The Garden of Earthly Delights (1516)
Felix Mas (Neurastenia)

Orchid
Galaxy Girls NYC
(Dr. Menlo)

A Galaxy Girl
Heritage Scrapbooks (Scout)

Jessie
Walker Smith image
Banned
Books Online
"Welcome to this special exhibit of books that have been the objects of
censorship or censorship attempts. The books featured here, ranging from
Ulysses to Little Red Riding Hood."
01/28/2005
John Evans Slide Show
John Evans created a collage a day for 37 years from scraps of paper,
posters, etc. that he found on the streets of NYC.

A day in the life of John Evans
01/26/2005
CherryVega's Gothic Lolita photos (kottke)
I posted an
article about the elegant Gothic Lolitas of Tokyo about a year ago.
These pictures were taken in Tokyo by CherryVega in the Summer of 2004.

An "Elegant Gothic Lolita"
01/24/2005
Geisha

Kimina works in Kyoto as a
geisha
01/23/2005
Currier
and Ives
These hand-colored lithographs from the Museum of the City of New York are
great. This is a great online museum!

First Republican Presidential
Campaign Lithograph (c) (1856)

The "Lightning Express" Trains: "Leaving the Junction" Frances F. Palmer
(1863)
Yang Ming-Yi Chinese
Paintings

Autumn Enveloping a House by the River (1975)
Zhenghua Wang Oil
Paintings

Nude (1988)
Life of the
People
"Realist Prints and Drawings from the Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Collection,
1912-1948 (LOC Exhibition)."

Boss of the Block (1939)
The Art of Yihang Pan

Peaceful Mind
Extravagant Crowd - Carl
Van Vechten's Portraits of Women (Life)

Jessica Tandy as Blanche DuBois
From A Streetcar Named Desire (1949)

Lena Horne (1941)
Hung Liu Artwork (Neurastenia)

The Last Empress (1988)
01/17/2005
Inuit Art From Cybermuse

Radiant Birds
By
Lucy Qinnuayuak 1982
Louis Agassiz Fuertes
Image Database
"The nation's most notable ornithological painter since Audubon." There are
over 2,500 illustrations in this Cornell Library database.

Indian in ceremonial dress 1902
National Academy Museum and School
of Fine Arts

The Birth of Our Flag
By Henry Peters Gray 1874
Reginald Marsh -
Artwork

High Yaller 1932
Shoen Uemura
This site has some large scans of Shoen Uemura's excellent prints
(pages 1-2).

Snow 1939
Caratulas de Josef von Sternberg (Penny Dreadful)

Marlene Dietrich
El angel azul 1930
Greetings
from Milwaukee (Scout)
Postcards from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee.

They gave me the glad hand in Milwaukee
Vintage Luggage Labels (Neurastenia)

The Grand Hotel
01/12/2005
Amusing America
(Plep)
From the San Francisco Public Library.

Lost in the Joy Zone Again
01/09/2005
Chinese Central Asia Art

Standing Bodhisattva Banner
9th Century China
David Hohn Illustration

The Snow Queen
Wang Qingsong
(Indigo Blog)
China Kaleidoscopes.

From Night Levels of Lao Li
RETROFUTURO (kottke)
Pages and pages of images about visions of the future.

This robot man has a mustache! (1939)
Irvin Penn (Neurastenia)

New Guinea (1970)
01/04/2005
Center for the Study of
Political Graphics (UI)

Health and Safety
Old Tokyo
(Plep)

Asakusa Postcard (1920)
01/03/2005
Women: Clothing and Dress
These are from the wonderful Picture Collection Online of the NY Public Library. You could
spend weeks looking at the scans on this site.

Color Study (1901)
by
Georges de Feure

Woman in Masquerade (1892)
Richard Baxter

No Water, No Moon (2004)
Built like a Woman by Sandra Broman
Art also by Richard Baxter.

Staying Alive
Chinami Nakajima (Cipango)

May The Japanese Iris
Zhong Biao (Burp)

2001
The Georgian Museum of Photography
This site includes 19th Century daguerreotypes to modern Georgian
photographs.

Annetta Andronikashvili
Women in Greek Myths (Plep)

The Pearls of Aphrodite
by Herbert Draper
December 2004
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