Some drawings from a 2011 sketchbook:
Yesterday I discovered and joined Retronaut, the web-site of my dreams, chock-a-block with bizarre photos from the past, going way back to the invention of photography until the 1990s.
My personal favorites are the "Banner Ladies", who - from what I can gather - where the some of first "sandwich board" advertisers - you get the feeling from the photograph that this was a totally new kind of job for women. I love everything about these photographs but the way the clothes are ornamented especially blows my mind. Hanging dolls off a dress is definitely one way to get peoples' attention:
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