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1925 - [Post-Thanksgiving Troubles]

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Original Pen and Ink Cartoons on Artist's Board This is a great vintage cartoon showing repercussions from Thanksgiving festivities. This is a humorous work from the famed early 20th-century Californian cartoonist Frank Kettlewell and signed "Ket,"...


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1927 - The Fair of the Iron Horse Centenary Exhibition and Pageant of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad to be held at Baltimore . . . . 1927

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Celebrating 100 Years of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Interesting chromolithographic plan of the Fairgrounds for the Fair of the Iron Horse. The map is centered on the Court of Honor and illustrates the exhibition's major buildings.


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1927 - [Charles Lindbergh] Our Hero

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This work commemorates Lindbergh's journey from New York to Paris, the first solo transatlantic flight. Lindbergh's feat received an unprecedented amount of attention in the US and in Europe, and memorabilia such as this one was produced around the...


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1929 - [Charles Lindbergh - 1st Trans-Atlantic Flight - Printed on Linen]

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New York to Paris in 33 hr, 29 m is the name of this printed cotton textile depicting the solo flight of Charles Lindbergh from New York to Paris. Even before Lindbergh completed his 1927 flight, a cotton toile fabric was made by Passaic Print Works...


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1929 - [Charles Lindbergh] Spirit of St. Louis

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Spirit of St. Louis is the name of this printed cotton textile depicting the solo flight of Charles Lindbergh from New York to Paris.


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1929 - [Charles Lindbergh / New York to Paris View] Spirit of St. Louis

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Spirit of St. Louis is the name of this printed cotton textile depicting the solo flight of Charles Lindbergh from New York to Paris. At the left, the Lindbergh's plane flies over New York and past the Statue of Liberty. At the right, a view of...


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1930 - (Southern California Birdseye View) Dunsmore Poultry Ranch Ltd. Van Nuys, Cal.

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Breeding Chickens in the San Fernando Valley Finely executed advertising artwork for the Dunsmore Poultry Ranch of Van Nuys, California, likely drawn in the 1920s. On the left side of the coat of arms is a bird's-eye view looking westward from Van...


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1931 - [Santa's Telegram]

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Original Pen and Ink Cartoons on Artist's Board This is a great vintage cartoon reciting the many problems faced by Americans, Californians, and others on Christmas Eve, 1931. This is a great example of a work by the famed early 20th-century...


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1931 - Map Showing Isle of Pleasure

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Heinie Lawrence's Rare Allegorical Map of Drink from the Finals Days of Prohibition. Unusual pictorial map, celebrating the joy of drink, issued toward the end of the American Prohibition Era (1920-1933). The map is ornately illustrated with subtle...


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1932 - [Japanese Invasion of Manchuria] Far East / War Fever

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Origional artwork for political cartoon drawn by Dorman H.Smith, a poltical cartoonist who worked in Cleveland and Chicago for over 30 years. Among Smith's more noteworthy milestones, in1924 he accompanied Ernest Hemingway to Pamplona, Spain. For a...


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1932 - [Three Vintage Frank Kettlewell Cartoons]

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Original Pen and Ink Cartoons on Artist's Board This is a fabulous example of three cartoons by Frank Kettlewell, the renowned Oakland Tribune humorist. Like many of Kettlewell's works, each of these cartoons are surprisingly accurate in today's...


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1933 - Little Orphan Annie's Treasure Hunt.

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This is a 1933 Wander Company fantasy map board game of a treasure hunt featuring the radio show character Little Orphan Annie. The map traces the 'charted course' from the Start through several childhood obstacles faced by children that misbehave...


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1934 - Financial Irrigation of the United States By Funds Appropriated For Emergency Use Under The New Deal

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If Calvin Coolidge Could Be Brought Back To Life To View This Vast New Superstructure of Government He Would Probably Think Himself on Mars. Fascinating image intended to illustrate the flow of money spent by the Federal Government during the New...


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1934 - American Gullibility

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Original artwork for political cartoon drawn by Dorman H. Smith, a political cartoonist who worked in Cleveland and Chicago for over 30 years. Among Smith's more noteworthy milestones, in 1924 he accompanied Ernest Hemingway to Pamplona, Spain. For a...


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1935 - [Charles Lindbergh] Lindbergh Spirit of St. Louis

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Unusual portrait of Charles Lindbergh on linen, which was apparently intended a a do-it-yourself sampler. The item shows a pattern intended for embroidery, but only the left side of the Lindbergh's suit jacket has been stitched with black and blue...


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1939 - (Pro-Spanish Republic Political Broadside) [Lift The Embargo Against The Spanish Republic] President Roosevelt says . . .

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Anti-Neutrality / Arms Embargo Spanish Civil War Broadside Rare large political broadside, almost certainly printed in connection with the so-called National Conference to Lift the Embargo Against the Spanish Republic in late January 1939. The...