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Showing posts with label fighting. Show all posts
November 19, 2015
November 16, 2015
This Porcineograph
I am not sure if this is charming or horrific.
The Forbes Lith. Mfg. Co., Boston - 1876 - Library of Congress
December 28, 2013
Civilian Conservation Corps Map
The best thing about this map - and there is much to be praised - has to be the two CCC guys holding the shield. We need to reintroduce art to public works.
Schenectady, NY - 1937 - Grems-Doolittle Library Connection
November 20, 2013
Hunt Bowman in Lost World
Whole lot to chew on in this cover, from the one woman jet tank to the skeleton armed sword fighter. And check out that castle behind them, squirting purple goo as it collapses. A lost world, indeed.
Planet Comics No. 58 - 1949 - Pulp Covers
Wild Oats
That is the least sexy sex movie poster I have ever seen.
S.S. Millard - 1950s - Wrong Side of the Art
October 22, 2013
April 27, 2013
The Liberation of Andromeda
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A story in three parts: with winged feet, Perseus flies in to kill the monster Cetus and rescue his future bride, to the celebration of the crowd. My sister is in Rome, a bride herself, honeymooning. They sent me this postcard and said it reminded her of my dreams. And here it is for you.
Piero di Cosimo - 1515 - @ Wisdom Portal
April 19, 2013
Rambles Through Our County
I can confirm that Florida is 90% swamp and alligators. Please, do not come here. We will fight the alligators for you.
Educational Game from Schaefer & Weisenbach Litho. - 1890 - @ Big Map Blog
August 14, 2012
On Its Own Turf
Are you out of your cotton pickin mind? Oh, hell no.
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which I do not mean to keep borrowing from,
but the photos he posts are just so good.
July 8, 2012
Soldaderas
Popular entre la tropa era Adelita
la mujer que el sargento idolatraba
que ademas de ser valiente era bonita
que hasta el mismo Coronel la respetaba.
1940, artist Antonio Gomez R.
from The Pictorial Arts
January 7, 2012
Planet of the Knob Heads
Why? Why do they want human women so very badly? Robots, aliens, creatures from black lagoons, they all want those Earthly babes.
Cover of Science Fiction Magazine
1939, illustrator Frank R. Paul
from Ski-Ffy
October 20, 2011
Jiu Jitsu for railway officials
I bet you can't tell which one was the actual jiu jitsu champ.
Uppsala, Sweden
1944
from DigitaltMuseum
October 13, 2011
Plate I
War and information, all of civilization.
The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion (1861-1865). Part I. Volume II
1876
October 8, 2011
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This is what my house will look like when the war gets this far. Except without the guns, because I only have the typewriters.
Oliver typewriter ad
1908
July 5, 2011
La Femme Amphibie
There is something about old illustrations of crocs and gators that I really love. They look so very lizardy - almost like dragons - in our imaginations. They're much bulkier in real life, though every bit as interesting.
French Circus Poster
late 1800s/early 1900s
from Layman's Layout
May 17, 2011
Hell yes.
This somehow makes Empire Strikes Back even more awesome. I want to see the movie someone would make based on this poster.
Hungarian movie poster
artist Tibor Helényi
from SW:TOR,
seen at Sci-F-O-Rama
April 6, 2011
February 27, 2011
Gives Oneself Over
I'm not familiar with the story this illustrates, but I can't stop looking at it. He looks very calm for someone wrapped in a cobra at Kali's feet in the middle of bloody battle.
Postcard purchased in India
from Sci-Fi-O-Rama
She did her homework in parked cars!
Well, if you're going to show the Actual Birth of a Baby!, best to do it in color.
Movie Poster
1967
from Wrong Side of the Art,
but seen on I Love Hot Dogs
February 23, 2011
Never a dull match with a Dusek
“In Boston, Rudy watched Brother Ernie wrestle an Irishman named Dan O’Mahoney. When O’Mahoney got the decision, Rudy jumped into the ring, tried to assault the referee, started a free-for-all among the seconds. In Camden, N. J., a few nights after the bout in Boston, Ernie wrestled Gino Garibaldi. A spectator in the balcony hurled down a chair which hit Ernie on the head. He was hospitalized.”
And yet they look so relaxed.
The Dusek Riot Squad, aka The Nebraska Riot Squad, aka The Dirty Duseks
early 50s, photographer Irving Penn
from The Heavy Light
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