Featured in it is a poster advertising the December 1895 issue of Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine. Designed by Joseph J. Gould, it shows a holly-festooned woman carrying the latest issue of the magazine as the snow swirls around her:
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Special Delivery: Railway Express Agency
Take a look at this colorful poster, designed by Robert E. Lee, a California-born painter and commercial artist who lived in New York City, and published in 1929. The company advertised on this poster, the Railway Express Agency (REA), was an American package delivery service. Operating between 1918 and 1975, they used railroads as one mode of transportation. The poster shows another leg of the REA’s national network, the delivery truck. The scene in the poster’s foreground, of a Railway Express employee delivering a package, is repeated as a poster on the side of the delivery truck. So, the poster itself is repeated as an advertising poster over and over within the poster! For Good Order Delivery Use Railway Express…
From Apples to Autumn Leaves
When searching in the Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC), one fascinating image can often lead to another. That is what happened when I was looking for apple images for the latest Flickr album How Do You Like These Apples? I included this Currier & Ives lithograph from the Popular Graphic Arts Collection in the album: Apples. Lithograph by Currier & Ives, 1868. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pga.04717 I also found the image below when searching for “apple” in the Popular Graphic Arts Collection in PPOC. Although this print is titled American Autumn Fruit, it was retrieved in my search because it was cataloged with the subject heading apples, along with grapes, watermelons, berries, pears, and plums: American Autumn Fruit. Lithograph by A.J. Nurre,…
Send In the (Baseball) Clowns
My latest Flickr album, focusing on images of brass instruments, includes a photograph of Nick Altrock and Al Schacht playing sousaphones: Nick Altrock & Al Schacht, 10/5/24. Photo by National Photo Company, October 5, 1924. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/npcc.12298 This photo and others in this blog post were taken when both men were a part of the Washington Senators organization. Both men had professional baseball careers, and were coaches when most of these photos were taken, but they are probably more remembered for their antics as baseball clowns. Altrock and Schacht would entertain the crowd with their comedy routines before and during games. Here you see Altrock wearing a giant glove and a tiny hat. One of his oversize mitts is now a…