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Two New Additions...
Two new additions to the vintage photo collection arrived this morning: a delightfully happy looking young man showing off his long-johns and a rather beautiful soldier (sadly unidentified) from WW1...
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London Pride 1979 Marks Stonewall 10th Anniversary
I am just about old enough to remember when Pride marches were demonstrations and not street parties... I am not old enough to have been involved in London Pride 1979. Ten years after the Stonewall...
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A Boy in the House by Mazo de la Roche
A Boy in the Houseby Marzo de la RocheMacmillan, London: 1953This is a novella telling the tale of a thirteen year old boy called Eddy from an orphanage who has been given to two elderly sisters, a...
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Laurence Scarfe illustrates Old Dave's Hut
Just when I thought I was done with Laurence Scarfe, having blogged about his lovely illustrations for a book called Three Ghosts a few days ago, I was browsing the 'vintage' books section of a local...
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Christ's Hospital Empire Day Cricket 1919
Sometimes it is not so much the front of a postcard that makes it memorable but the back. This is a real photo postcard of Maine House of Christ's Hospital School in Horsham in their distinctive...
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Ephemera: The Bibliography of Oscar Wilde by Stuart Mason
Bits and pieces of publishers' ephemera are always fun, particularly if they relate to a book or author that interests you. Not a few literary discoveries and bibliographical 'points' have been dug...
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Leon Underwood at The Pallant Gallery
This above is Leon Underwood (1890-1975). I confess I had never heard his name before yesterday when R and I swept into Chichester on a sunny bank-holiday afternoon and, on a whim, decided to see what...
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Catalogue: Jacques Simonot Photographs
A new catalogue from Callum James Books: Jacques Simonot Photographs. From the introduction: Jacques Simonot (1925-1982) was a cornerstone of a groupof photographers who did a lot of work documenting...
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Happy Birthday David
It's not often that one comes across a piece of ephemera relating to a same-sex relationship and I can only assume that this amazing little piece of card is one such. I'm sorry that the photo is poor,...
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Ralph Chubb "The Visionary"
I am very grateful to long-time friend of Front Free Endpaper, Paul, for sending a copy of an article he found about Ralph Chubb. First though, he informs me that there is a connection between Leon...
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100 Year Old Lightning
Photography is often defined in terms of capturing a fleeting single moment in time or capturing light... Is it possible that this photograph is a visual definition of photography. A flash of lightning...
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Two by Albert Wainwright
It's always nice to be able to add a couple of Albert Wainwright images to the internet. These come from the catalogue of an exhibition of his work held in 1986. The top is called "Hullabaloobalay"...
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Erté Illustrates a Gay Romance
I don't know enough about the complete oeuvre of Romain de Tirtoff, better known as Erté (from the French pronunciation of his initials) to say whether he did much by way of gay-themed illustration,...
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Vintage Swimwear for a change...
For those of you, myself included, who might have feared that my collecting of young men in vintage swimwear has stalled... here is the latest to fall on the mat. I know they are almost certainly a...
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Frank Meadow Sutcliffe and the Cunard Poster
Frank Meadow Sutcliffe is remembered mainly now only by the residents of Whitby, where he lived and did nearly all his photographic work, and by aficionados of early photography. His portraits of the...
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Things That Fall From Books #19: Saints
Well, we haven't had one of these Things That Fall From Books posts for over a year - shame on me - it's not that things have stopped falling, just that I've stopped scanning them quite so much!...
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Salomon van Abbé illustrates Tanglewood Tales
I am sure that the Childrens' Illustrated Classics series published by Dent Dutton in the 1950s and 60s must have featured here before but I'm blowed if I can find it. They are great books: solidly...
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Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice
Since its appearance in the 2004 film "Closer", Postman's Park, hidden away a short walk from St Paul's Cathedral in London, has had plenty written about it in print and on the internet. There are...
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Charles Mozley Illustrates Tom Sawyer
Unlike so many of the illustrators of the second half of the Twentieth Century, Charles Mozley (1914-1991) is rather well served by the internet by dint of having been celebrated posthumously in an...
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1921 Swim Team
Don't they look proud!? And why not? I rather proudly rescued this nearly 100 year old photograph from the internet this week and have added it to the vintage swimwear collection.
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