John Brown

John Brown Takes the Abolitionist Oath, 1846,  Daguerreotype, by Augustus Washington, photographer, politician, Liberian, born United States, 1820 or 1821-1875.  John Brown, American, abolitionist, freedom fighter, 1800-1859.

Kin-der-Kids

Kin-der-Kids cartoon, 1906, by Lyonel Feininger, American, painter, photographer, cartoonist, 1871-1956.

They Fight Their Pursuers Still Nude

 
An illustration from The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is known as the Realms of the Unreal of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion,  novel and illustrations by Henry Darger, Jr, American, 1892-1973.    Exact date of novel and illustration unknown.  Water color on paper.

Anna Akhmatova

Portrait of Anna Akhmatova, 1914-1915, by Nathan Altman, artist, stage designer, born Natan Isaevich Altman, Russian/Soviet, 1889-1970, oil on canvas.  Anna Akhmatova, pen name of Anna Andreevna Gorenko, poet, translator, Russian/Soviet, 1889-1966.

He Who Gets Slapped

Lon Chaney, American, actor, director, born Leonidas Chaney, 1883-1930, as Paul Beaumont/He in He Who Gets Slapped, 1924, directed by Victor Sjostrom, Swedish, 1879-1960.

Steeplechase, Coney Island

Steeplechase, Coney Island, 1926, by Milton Avery, American, 1885-1965, oil on canvas.

A Hitch Hiker on the Pennsylvania Turnpike

Postcard published by Minsky Brothers & Co., Pittsburgh, PA, in business 1935-1948.  Exact date and illustrator unknown.  From my collection.