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Getting Agricultured
Last night’s adventure was going through a 41 pound lot of The Country Gentleman magazines published between 1915 and 1927.
Here are some of the covers (and one random ad portion) I uncovered while going through this rough but rather large lot.
prelude to adventure
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Continue readingIt shouldn’t look this pretty, but it is.
The December 1937 Fortune magazine cover.
Light ’em up!
The December 1939 Fortune magazine cover.
I think that’s an old-timey knife switch to turn power on and off in the lower right quarter, but I’m not 100% certain.
I need to subscribe to This Meeting Could’ve Been an Email magazine.
Anyway, here’s Wonderwall.
A peacock “has angels’ feathers, a devil’s voice, and the walk of a thief.”
It’s been quite a week, so here’s the cover of my copy of January 1934’s Country Life magazine. The masthead has some design issues but the artwork is sublime.
That’s life.
Just an awesome photo take long before Photoshop was a thing.
I dug a bit looking for a Google image search match to see if I could find the photographer’s name, but alas. If I ever find that out, I’ll let you know.
Stayin’ alive. Stayin’ alive. Well, more like tryin’ to stay alive and failin’, but that’s harder to sing.
What is that strange toy? It can’t possibly be based on a real plane, can it?
Yes. Yes it can. The “small, tubby airplane” is the Gee Bee! Also described as “A Cute But Dangerous Airplane” and the “Fastest and Most Dangerous Airplane in the World“.
Want one? As of May 2019, you can for the low, low price of only $899,000!