Image Dive 2

Japanese children's book cover found in the NDLibrary. "Katakana Otogi Banashi," 1925

Here's my first real post in a long time. I'm glad to be back.
This old-school image dive pretends that Instagram, Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest never existed. (And I've likely posted many of these images on my Instagram, Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest accounts in the past year.)


"Katakana Otogi Banashi," 1925 (link)





circa 1910 Japan. From the NDLibrary via yajifun





Kobayashi Kaichi (1896-1968) via one of these collections of his work (my scan)





Simizu Yosio for Kodomo no Kuni c1929





1925, "Taishin name stories" via NDLibrary




1935 Japan book binding, from a lost highway of the Internet Archive





Settai Komura, 1935, via Dassaishooku




Collage from Black Magazine, Japan c.1971 (my scan)




Sibylle von Olfers, endpapers for Bellaroontje, het woud-prinsesje, 1913 via Geheugen van Nederland
Floris Books has some nice reprints of her work in English (see IndieBound). Previously: When the root children wake up





Ernst Kreidolf, from Gnomes' Winter Journey (Floris Book reprint / IndieBound)
Previously: The Dream Garden





Ana Sender, based on the traditional Russian tale "The Wolf." Ana has some great book proposals on her site.





Nika Goltz via Book Graphics






via In the Heather Bright. Aesop’s Fables translated by John Warrington, illustrated by Joan Kiddell-Monroe (London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1961). Previously: Forgotten Illustrator Joan Kiddell-Monroe.





Ivar Arosenius (1878-1909), dated 1908, from an expired auction listing





Willy Pogany (Hungarian-American, 1882-1955), "The Circe," expired auction listing





From Ali Winstanley's studio visit with the great Estonian artist Jüri Arrak
Previously on this artist





Jozef Jankovič, Seriograph, 1970 via Robert Beatty's Toilet Paper Cosmos archive





"Unelma" - postcard circa 1905
From an exhibit at the Finnish Museum of Photography
Only found through Kuriosas





From a set of posters for The Mysterians





Pangolin from “Zoologia typica“ (1849) via the Smithsonian


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Contribute $10 and receive a postcard pack as a thank you.
I'm making postcards of my favorite images from the archives -- vintage oddities and also the work of the living. (The creators were kind enough to give permission.)
The first set of 10 designs (the "December 2017 edition") is now gone. Thanks! The February 2018 will be available soon. Contribute now and I'll make sure you get one.





Postcard Pack 1.2 (Feb 2018 edition)
For United States $10.00 USD
Outside the US (includes extra shipping fee) $12.00 USD







Preview of 8 of the 10 cards in the February 2018 postcard pack. Includes work by CAZA, Mahendra Singh, Bette Burgoyne, Lewis Heriz, Alenka Sottler, Samplerman, and Julian Montague.


Previously: Image Dive 1
This post first appeared on January 22, 2018 on 50 Watts