CHOOSING THINGS . . . by different artists

color samples for kitchen or bathroom counter tops   "Make up your mind,  damnit"

      

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1940 plastics ... women's eye wear       see full size

      

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1700s wealthy land owners throughout Europe would have a 'hermit' live permanently on site where they could be fed,  cared for,  and consulted for advice or viewed for entertainment ... the garden hermit huts above were available commercially

      

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a Moriz Jung illustration       see full size

      

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a knife with 80 blades and tools,  at the 1851 World's fair

      

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from a Hanna Barbera 'Magilla Gorilla' animation,  1963

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1967 supermarket cleaning products       see full size

      

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there were 80 London window-deaths in the year 1884,  but a new 

window could be cleaned from indoors       see full size

      

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a 1907 department store

      

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a 1973 playground design ... children avoided this structure

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"She Looked Clean but ..."     1945 venereal disease warning

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a 1965 supermarket shopper

      

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"New York Elevator Men"   by Drew Friedman

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"New Models"    an H.R. McBride 1933 illustration       see full size

      

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 1945 ... the post-war plastics industry grew fast,  as did off-gassing and leaching of chemicals

      

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a boy chooses to ignore warnings about a carving knife in an 1800s schoolbook

      

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a Wayne Thiebaud painting       see full size

      

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an Oscar Cahén illustration,  1952 Canada       see full size

      

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1960 colors for public washroom stalls,  from an industry catalog

      

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1890s beggar types    "The Lubberly Tramp,  The Unwholesome Tramp, 

 The Abject Tramp,  Mrs. Tramp"       see full size

      

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a railway crossing in a Walter Molino illustration

      

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"Blind"    a Charles Rodrigues cartoon       see full size

      

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Pushwagner art       see full size

      

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"It's been awful for business,  Mrs. Schultz,  but it was Charlie's last wish." 

a Gahan Wilson cartoon

      

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1941 clear color heels       see full size

      

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1969 hairstyles

      

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the artist Liu Bolin is painted to match his background in this photograph

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a J. Bernard Partridge illustration