T U B E S . . . by different artists

A person in a tube has very few options.  There are two directions at best,  and visibility is limited.

Will the tube lead to freedom? . . . or a dead end . . . or even an endless loop?
     

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a 1928 chair by architect Mies van der Rohe ... the frame has one of those endless loops,  we wouldn't want to be stuck in there

     

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 a Frank Tinsley illustration,  1950s       see full size

     

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 a 1922 cylindrical "photo-anamorphosis" mirror

     

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Gail Brodholt art       see full size

     

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a bedroom clothes rack,  1900

     

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Iván Navarro 2019 art       see full size

     

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at the 1939 World's Fair

     

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Erik Nitsche,  1960  "General Dynamics"

     

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1932 cigarettes

     

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"showing the eye end"    the Great Paris Telescope,  1903       see full size

     

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1965 sealed tubes containing Canada Dry soft drinks ... this was just before the
pull-tab revolution of canned drinks

     

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a Niagara Falls 1911 daredevil with his barrel for going over the falls
  ... many of these stories didn't end well       see full size

     

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an 1886 flute

     

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a 1966 John Alcorn illustration

     

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the New York pneumatic train in 1870
         

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a 1930 Percy Trompf poster: 
"AUSTRALIA - The tallest trees in the British Empire - Marysville, Victoria"

     

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1851:  "Sectional Diagram of the proposed Tubular Submarine Railway
between France and England"       see full size

     

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a Burlington Socks ad:  "The following socks are being brought to you in living color."
 (a reference to the 1968 NBC television slogan)

     

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a B. Wiseman cartoon about a circus strongman

     

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an 1885 pipes alphabet       see full size

     

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an 1885 bamboo alphabet       see full size
     

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a 1929 radio tube in the Crosley Receiver
     

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a bass guitar amplifier tube,  early 1970s

    

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a 1931 hay fever cure:  "a mercury-vapor lamp in a quartz rod,  small enough to

pass up the nose and sunburn it's inside . . ."
     

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a 1954 television stop-motion animation for cigarettes ...

"LS/MFT"  (Lucky Strike / Means Fine Tobacco)
     

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a mid-century apartment building
     

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Stefan Żechowski art       see full size

    

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1955 Gleem toothpaste       see full size

    

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1923 factory glass ... blown tubes are cut into flat sheets

    

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a Walter Nehmer illustration
   

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a 1965 Murano vase