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3: ‘Picking up a leathern bucket Val leaps into the sea -- ‘
#PrinceValiant #HalFoster
while Prince Arn’s rescue ship is delayed by the second sea-rover. In desperation Val seizes the “Singing Sword,” cuts loose the sail and destroys the rudder.’
‘Without shield or armor Val stands facing certain death at the hands of the enraged pirates.’
#PrinceValiant #HalFoster
#OTD in 1960
@SatEvePost
‘You’ll never know how exciting ice cream can be until you taste Foremost Carousel’
Illustrator unknown
#OTD in 1944
Cover of The New Yorker, August 5, 1944
Barbara Shermund
#TheNewYorker #BarbaraShermund #beach #beachlife #beachbody #suntan #tanning
After WW2 the BIS developed rigorous and systematic technical plans for #spaceexploration, complete also with rocket, lunar module and space suit, expanding on projects they had developed in the late 1930s (drawings and illustrations by #RASmith).
#spacetravel #spacestation #BIS
#OTD in 1872
‘The women's day at the free bath-houses - waiting for admittance.’
Harper's weekly August 3, 1872
Harper's Weekly, collection of Maggie Land Blanck.
#illustration #illustrationart #NewYorkCity #tenementlife #bathhouses
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In #AUGUST 1906
‘I should like to make my own living.’ Illustration by William Thomas Smedley (1858-1920) for Sarah Barnwell Elliott, “Hybrid Roses”, Harper's magazine, August 1906
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #WilliamThomasSmedley #womensfashion