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The Cornell Widow
The Cornell Widow was a humorous student-ran magazine at Cornell University. It was first published on October 4, 1894 and continued until financial problems shut it down in 1962. The magazine's name...
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Film Poster Paintings from Ghana
In the 1980s video cassette technology made it possible for “mobile cinema” operators in Ghana to travel from town to town and village to village creating temporary cinemas. The touring film group...
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Programs of Boar's Head Dramatic Society
"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 solely...
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Theatre Magazine
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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Japanese Postcards of the Russo-Japanese War
"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...
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George Cooke Caricatures
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...
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Collages of Wilfried "Sätty" Podriech
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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Year of the Monkey Postcards
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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Relating to Quacks, Quackery and Nostrums, Part 1
"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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More from the 1905-1906 Russian Underground Press
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 Blood...
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Avant-garde's Letterhead
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. Elaine Lustig...
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¡Feliz Día de los Muertos!
Muerte en cruceta; by Lola Cueto, 1947La bohemia de la muerte; anonymous, 1958El crepusculo de la noche, in Tricolor no. 35; July-August 1924El Hospital Juárez - (Ironia); by Carlos Neve, 1951detail of...
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Elaine Lustig Cohen
Yesterday TheSilverLining posted some great links to Elaine Lustig Cohen works. Here are some more of her works that I have not seen posted elsewhere.A Type Specimen page, 1950"Elaine Lustig Cohen (b....
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Lumpenball Flyers by Franz Wilhelm Seiwert
'Lumpenball' is a popular(?) type of ball in Germany where guests come dressed in ragged and tattered clothes.2. Lumpenball am Fastnachtssonntag im Industriehof (Second Ragged Clothes Ball on Carnival...
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Swiss Museum Posters
All posters are from the Swiss Posters Collection (note the watermark in the bottom-right).by Claude Kuhn; Natural History Museum of Bern, 1985 (see more by the amazing Claude Kuhn ---> [link]...
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Simplicissimus
There are already a lot of illustrations from this famous German political-satire magazine floating around the blogosphere, but a few more wont hurt. Here are some of my favorites:-see most of the...
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Zenit - Зенит (1921 - 1926)
"In February 1921, in Zagreb, the poet Ljubomir Micić launched Zenit, an international magazine for art and culture, as it said in the subtitle; around its zenitist poetics and aesthetics, the magazine...
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Women, Snakes and Stalkers: South Asian book covers
This is a dual post with Will, from the great A Journey Around My Skull. All of these magnificent covers come courtesy of Quinn Dombrowski's impressive South Asian books project, in which she...
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Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov Theatre Posters
I came across a worn Russian book of Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov’s theatre posters, called Teatralʹnyĭ plakat N. Akimova. The book was published in Moscow in 1963 and is now out-of-print, but can be...
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From the Netherlands Architecture Institute
From various collections at the Netherlands Architecture Institute's website.City on Pampus, Megastructure, by H. Klopma and J.B. Bakema, from the architectural firm Van den Broek and Bakema, drawing,...
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Chinese Book Covers
While checking out my town's new rare/used book store, Logos Books, I found this book of a collection of works from China's 'Central Academy of Arts & Design'. The full (and awkwardly translated)...
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Alvin Lustig miscellany
Beverly Hills High School Commencement, 1942Philately in Europe brochure, 1939Incantation, Textile Design, 1947 [via] (see it in fabric form at Alki1's flickr ---> [link])Christmas card,...
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Selections from the Intl. Exhibition of Calligraphy
There are already a few posts about from this incredible exhibition, including one by the great BibliOdyssey, but I couldn't help but post a few more.Ruslan Naiden - Signs list #1 (Paper, ink, pen,...
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La revista Nexos
Nexos is a monthly cultural magazine published in Mexico City. The magazine was started in 1978, and is not related to the South American Nexos Magazine published by American Airlines. Following are...
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Qué caso tiene
Another big thanks to for Borr who identified Rogelio Naranjo as the artist of much of the work in the last post on Nexos magazine. I went searching for more of Rogelio Naranjo's work and found scans...
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