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the most important job of CONTROL is maintaining a semblance of normalcy for our
everyday life ... we hire people to perform that function,  and we don't like interruptions

    

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George Tooker art

           

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"central tube room - for cash and charge transactions"

pneumatic tubes moved money in some large 1938 retail stores

      

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a 1960 illustration of medical gases by Erik Nitsche

    

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1893 hair pins in a box in a carton in a room in a store on a street in a town in a country on Earth
        

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this is interesting:  the entire audience is silent,  and has been asked
to look away to one side ... a few look at the camera

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a 1991 illustration ... tighten or loosen the machine heads to tune the strings     

     

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Wacław Szpakowski art ... one continuous line      see full size

     

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a Joseph Kuhn-Régnier fashion illustration, 1923
    

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1883 posture straighteners  ". . . their constant use will correct any unsightly and unhealthy stoop, that so many of our young girls acquire from close attention to study."
     

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this ship mooring rope is four inches thick
     

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1600s door keys

     

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a Harvey Dunn illustration

     

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a gate at the 1900 Worlds Fair in Paris
     

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Dr. Seuss's 1950s children's book  "If I Ran the Zoo"
    

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an 1868 school bully

      

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an illustration of an orchestra conductor
     

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a Lill Tschudi linocut print      see full size

              

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a Frans Masereel woodcut
      

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"Yes, these will do nicely"     a Gahan Wilson cartoon

    

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"Wolcott's Instant Pain Annihilator"   it controls pain,  and then it controls you
      

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Sascha Schneider,  1899?
       

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1800s printers used etched copies of photographs for publications.

Franklin Booth as a boy thought these images in magazines were pen

drawings, and learned to copy the photo-etching appearance.   

He became a successful illustrator with his unique style,

seen above      see full size
     

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a Harry Rountree children's illustration
     

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time rules us all . . . a Ronald Searle drawing
        

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a James Wyeth watercolor illustration of a NASA control room 

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Wallace Smith,  1922

                 

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a Bernard Villemot poster illustration
     

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a 1934 Howard Baer cartoon illustration
     

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at the controls in 1963,  comedian Phillis Diller

        

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