A little while back, I posted about an online archive of jazz LPs. I was thrilled to come across a similar collection of classical record sleeves. Love it.
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Vintage Vanguard: ジャズレコード館
February 21, 2008 – 7:48 pm
Check out Vintage Vanguard‘s great online archive of record sleeves for albums by various jazz musicians. Nice use of color, image placement and typography in some of these LPs. In case you were wondering, “ジャズレコード館” translates from Japanese to English as “Jazz Record Mansion.”
Square America: What Was On (1957)
January 28, 2008 – 12:56 am
I’ve been meaning to post about this for a while. Over on Square America (a great archive of snapshots and vernacular photography), there is a collection titled What Was On (1957). 48 Photos of women on TV taken late at night by a lonely photographer in 1957. Encrusted with 50 year old dust and emulsion [...]
Charles Van Schaick: Wisconsin Death Trip
January 20, 2008 – 12:43 pm
L: Twin Infants in Coffins, 1886 R: Portrait of Man with Small Beard, 1897 © Charles Van Schaick / WHS Many of you know that Andy Adams is the editor behind the daily photography blogzine Flak Photo. What many of you might not know, however, is that Andy also has done work for the photographs [...]
Things Magazine and the Pelican Project
January 10, 2008 – 10:24 pm
T: 1930, 1940, 1950 B: 1960, 1970, 1980 © Pelican / Things Magazine I’m not sure where I saw this first, so I’ll just link to the original source. Things Magazine presents the Pelican Project – an archive of covers of Pelican (now Penguin) books from the 1930s to the 1980s. What a great image [...]
Shorpy
January 9, 2008 – 12:13 am
Shorpy at work, November, 1910 © Lewis Hine Shorpy is the “100-year-old photo blog” named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a young “greaser” on Bessie Mine of the Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Co. in Alabama (photographed by Lewis Hine late in 1910).
Specific Things
September 5, 2007 – 6:57 pm
If you found yourself enjoying Alec‘s Jump The Sandwich shenanigans, you may also enjoy the many wonders of Specific Things. I’d love to highlight all of the “specific things” that the website features but, well, that’s what the site’s for. Alas, here are a few samples from two of the collections: Teams Called The Pirates [...]
Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog
April 11, 2007 – 8:42 pm
First flight, 120 feet in 12 seconds, 10:35 a.m.; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina © John T. Daniels AMP reminds us that, as surfers of the interweb, we have FREE digital access to the entire Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog. Instead of Phoogling, maybe we could do some Phlibrary-of-congressing? Just a thought. Search [...]
