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March 18, 2013 8 notes
Happy 100th birthday John Cage. From a working notebook of Cage’s ca. 1970 I’m currently cataloguing: “I went to the Dr. He said, You should get your hair cut. The next day I went to the barber. My health remained the same.”

Happy 100th birthday John Cage. From a working notebook of Cage’s ca. 1970 I’m currently cataloguing: “I went to the Dr. He said, You should get your hair cut. The next day I went to the barber. My health remained the same.”

September 5, 2012 2 notes
MADAME SHERWOOD, Giant Lady [CDV, United States, ca. 1890]. “Height, 5 feet 8 inches; 7 feet around the waist, and 24 inches around the arm. Aged 31 years. Weight 675 pounds.”

MADAME SHERWOOD, Giant Lady [CDV, United States, ca. 1890]. “Height, 5 feet 8 inches; 7 feet around the waist, and 24 inches around the arm. Aged 31 years. Weight 675 pounds.”

September 4, 2012 11 notes
[Original Wire Service Photo of the Chelsea Hotel 1978]. Caption: “After Thomas Wolfe found you can’t go home again, he spent his last days at the Chelsea Hotel in New York. Mark Twain stayed there. So did Dylan Thomas, Bob Dylan, Brendan Behan, and Eugene O’Neill. Police say punk rock star Sid Vicious killed his girlfriend in their room recently there.”

[Original Wire Service Photo of the Chelsea Hotel 1978]. Caption: “After Thomas Wolfe found you can’t go home again, he spent his last days at the Chelsea Hotel in New York. Mark Twain stayed there. So did Dylan Thomas, Bob Dylan, Brendan Behan, and Eugene O’Neill. Police say punk rock star Sid Vicious killed his girlfriend in their room recently there.”

September 3, 2012 7 notes
POETS at Le Metro, Volume XVII - October 1964.

POETS at Le Metro, Volume XVII - October 1964.

July 18, 2012
[Original Raymond Pettibone flyer for Black Flag show at Baces Hall, Los Angeles, 1980]

[Original Raymond Pettibone flyer for Black Flag show at Baces Hall, Los Angeles, 1980]

July 17, 2012 32 notes
[Two photographs of an unidentified interracial couple, Oakland CA, ca. 1919]

[Two photographs of an unidentified interracial couple, Oakland CA, ca. 1919]

July 16, 2012 4 notes
[Flyer for a William S. Burroughs reading with Steven J. Bernstein at the Elliott Bay Co., Seattle WA, 1983]

[Flyer for a William S. Burroughs reading with Steven J. Bernstein at the Elliott Bay Co., Seattle WA, 1983]

July 13, 2012 2 notes
MAGIC ETCH A SKETCH SCREEN [Early promotional flyer, Ohio Art Co., ca. 1960]

MAGIC ETCH A SKETCH SCREEN [Early promotional flyer, Ohio Art Co., ca. 1960]

July 11, 2012 4 notes
[Program card from Andy Warhol’s memorial mass, April 1st 1987, St. Patrick’s Cathedral NYC]

[Program card from Andy Warhol’s memorial mass, April 1st 1987, St. Patrick’s Cathedral NYC]

July 10, 2012 3 notes
FRED’S PIGS [Promotional pamphlet to S. Fred Kerslake Jr.’s learned pig sideshow, Turners Falls, MA, ca. 1923]

FRED’S PIGS [Promotional pamphlet to S. Fred Kerslake Jr.’s learned pig sideshow, Turners Falls, MA, ca. 1923]

July 9, 2012 6 notes
[Reefer Madness Rally Poster, 1985]

[Reefer Madness Rally Poster, 1985]

July 5, 2012 1 note
[Annotated Photograph of Seven Young Boys in Blackface and Dresses, Captioned on Front in Autograph “Seven Little Pickaninies,” 1899]

[Annotated Photograph of Seven Young Boys in Blackface and Dresses, Captioned on Front in Autograph “Seven Little Pickaninies,” 1899]

June 26, 2012
BOING BOING No. 2 (Winter 1990). Mark Frauenfelder, Editor.

BOING BOING No. 2 (Winter 1990). Mark Frauenfelder, Editor.

June 26, 2012 3 notes
[Pre-publication marketing flyer for THE OUTSIDER magazine, Loujon Press, New Orleans, c. 1960]

[Pre-publication marketing flyer for THE OUTSIDER magazine, Loujon Press, New Orleans, c. 1960]

June 22, 2012
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