U R B A N . . . by different artists, part 3

a Robert Crumb cover for Weirdo Magazine,  1990

              

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a 1935 illustration of 1890 New York       click image twice for full size

           

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a Walter Molino illustration

             

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Erich Kettelhut,  1925       click twice 

             

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Jun’ichirō Sekino art,  1900s       click twice

           

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Jun’ichirō Sekino

           

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Jun’ichirō Sekino

   

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"Beefy Cheesy Glory"     Ben Tolman art       click twice

           

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Ben Tolman       click twice

           

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 1973 U.K.       click twice

           

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1973 U.K.       click twice

           

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Edmund Dulac,  1939

           

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  outside a 1930s cinema       click twice

           

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 Raoul Hausmann 1920 design       click twice

   

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an Ed Emshwiller illustration

           

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Ben Tolman       click twice

           

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Henri Le Sidaner art,  1903       click twice

           

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an Eric Drooker illustration       click twice

           

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a Charles Sheeler 1951 photograph

            

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Brecht Evens art,  1986

             

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Brecht Evens

   

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Brecht Evens

           

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Hans Poelzig architecture       click twice 

             

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"...old men and women were searching in the garbage thrown in the mud" 

from the writer Jack London's 1903 photographs of London       click twice

            

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Walter Schnackenberg       click twice

           

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a 1929 dirigible over a city

             

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Max Yavno 1947 ... 'Muscle Beach' in Los Angeles       see full size

       

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the U.K. pavilion at Expo 2010 in Shanghai       click twice

   

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a Bob Peak illustration

           

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W.O.J. Nieuwenkamp

              

LAW & ORDER . . . by different artists, part 2

a 1936 fingerprint ... yours perhaps?  Can you account for your whereabouts yesterday?

     

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 Bill Elder parodied the old radio show 'Dragnet' for 1950s MAD comics

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"You!  You're the hatchet killer,  Whittaker!"    a late 1960s Gene Colan horror story

for either Creepy or Eerie Magazine

     

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a future police vehicle by Frank Tinsley       see full size

     

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family visiting day at an 1888 prison,  USA

     

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a George Cruikshank drawing,  England       see full size

     

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1822 prison work,  England

     

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official punishment in 1890s China       see full size

     

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1801 China       see full size

     

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apparently the wrong joke by John Buckland Wright

     

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R. Crumb ... two undercover police arrest each other at a sex workers convention

click twice

     

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1876 police equipment,  USA       see full size

     

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1876 Police Equipment,  USA       see full size

     

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an Al Parker 1959 illustration of a Canadian Mounted Policeman 

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Maximilien Luce art,  1894

     

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a lunatic aslyum in 1892 Montreal Canada       see full size

     

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"His prey was now struggling frantically"     a Frank C. Pape illustration

     

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an Antonio Rubino illustration       see full size

     

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"Put a tiger in your tank"     a Bob Jones illustration for Esso gasoline

     

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a 1961 Dodge police car       see full size

     

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a 1971 Gilbert Shelton underground comic for hippies "Tricky Prickears" ... a blind & deaf

policeman who's a cross between Dick Tracy and Richard Nixon thinks 

he's criticizing an audience at the United Nations

     

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a prisoner by Jack Kirby       see full size

     

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1650s Puritan law USA,  from an 1898 book

     

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official persecution in a Hans Tegner illustration       see full size

     

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"Guilty."    a 1957 cartoon by B. Tobey

     

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the misbehaving child is told to stand in the corner ... a Walter Crane

1880s illustration       click twice

     

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1910 illuminated license plates

     

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"I smell fear."    a National Lampoon cartoon about a

USA taxation investigation       see full size

     

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a Tom Lovell illustration

     

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a William Mortensen image ... Edgar Allan Poe's version of the Spanish Inquisition