Just doing my regular thing and getting once again obsessed by Jean Fouquet's work. He's doing this in the 1450s. My god.

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The Naughtiest Girl is a series of novels written by Enid Blyton in the 1940s–1950s. Elizabeth Allen is a spoiled girl whose misbehavior causes her to be sent to Whyteleafe School. In the middle of her first term, she discovers how lonely she was and starts to behave.

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Seagull Seagull... a beautiful selection of poems by New Zealand’s folk poet James K. Baxter, written the in 1950s. Illustrated by 🌊🦐 "Gorgeously illustrated and with poems for all seasons, this is a lovely anthology" writes

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Charley Harper bird silk screen prints sold through the Ford Times magazine, 1950s.

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Woman Holding Baby c.1955 by Eva Frankfuther, German-born British artist, notable for depicting the immigrant communities of the East End of London in the 1950s.

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The name "daguerreotype" correctly refers only to one very specific image type and medium, the product of a process that was in wide use only from the early 1840s to the late 1850s.

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Massimo Campigli, '50s. The painting at left was shown @ the 1950 Biennale dominated by Rivera and Siqueiros. An instance of how craft imaginaries slip so easily between ideological positions - these rest awkwardly btw. Rivera's heroic workers & Sironi's right-wing primitivism.

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June Christy was the epitome of the vocal cool Jazz movement of the 1950s. Her hits included "Shoo Fly Pie & Apple Pan Dowdy", the million-selling "Tampico" & "How High the Moon" After her death, she was hailed as "one of the finest and most neglected singers of her time

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Cosmetics ads from the 1950s.

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An Alphabet full of Illustrators...B is For…Henry Matthew Brock...who, by the 1890s, was a popular and prolific Illustrator. He worked until his eyesight failed in the 1950s. He worked mainly in pen & ink, with colour tinting...

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An Alphabet full of Illustrators...B is For…Henry Matthew Brock...who, by the 1890s, was a popular and prolific Illustrator. He worked until his eyesight failed in the 1950s. He worked mainly in pen & ink, with colour tinting...

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Feel free if you want to use this as your wallpaper ☺️👋 I just made it today. Don't you love how pretty fashion in 50s.

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This character right here, the blonde girl? 14. The characters making advances on her? In their 50s.

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TEENA, by Hilda Terry (1914-2006), the first woman allowed to join the National Cartoonists Society. So well-drawn: so lean and elegant. The actions and emotions of the loose-limbed teens are clear, their poses free from the stiff clichés usually seen in teen comics. 1950s.

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L’IL ABNER greeting cards. 1950s. Art by Frank Frazetta.

Creator Al Capp, Frazetta, and Bob Lubbers were by far the best trio who worked on the comic. Later on, when nobody wanted much to do with him anymore, Capp had trouble finding talented assistants, and the art suffered.

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Eric Hobsbawm, Peter De Francia, c.1955
both members of the Geneva Club in the mid-1950s.This club was an opportunity for left-wing artists and intellectuals to meet. Those who attended their gatherings also included J.D. Bernal, John Berger, Paul Hogarth Derrick Greaves.

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New members for my growing collection
The Klas Horn class was a pair of improved Ehrensköld class destroyers built in the 1930s and operated until the late 1950s. The armament arrangement was identical to Ehrensköld, only the superstructures of the ships had been updated.
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More spot illustrations for this paper arts & crafts booklet from the 50s.

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MORT SAHL (1927-) Comedy groundbreaker Mort Sahl, appeared onstage sitting on a stool with a rolled-up newspaper in his hand & talked in normal conversational tones—delivering not gag lines but caustic commentary on the political leaders, popular culture starting in the 1950s.

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Jewelry advertising in the 1950s.

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