Vintage Ads: "I Love a Water Bed"


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Vintage Photos: Heja Sverige!


Photographer: Co Rentmeester, 1972, LIFE

I don't exactly know what this photo was supposed to illustrate but searching the LIFE photos for "polaroid" this was one of the results. A beautiful woman, probably Swedish, wearing a t-shirt with an image clearly Swedish. The typical red-painted Swedish cottage, the flagpole, the blue-and-yellow, trees...

This is also an image of Sweden...

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Vintage Design: Soviet Mayan Playing Cards


Soviet playing cards with Mayan motives.
Via El Burlador

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Vintage Comics: Splash


slightly cropped and adjusted panels

The Allen Bellman Splash Page Gallery

"Splash page or sometimes referred to simply as a "splash", is a full page drawing in a comic book. A splash page is often used as the first page of a story, and includes the title and credits. Splashes that are not on the first page of a story are sometimes called interior splash pages. Interior splashes may, or may not include titles and/or credits. A panel that is larger than others on the page is called a splash panel. A splash that appears across two pages of a comic book is called a "double splash" or a two-page spread. Rarely, splash pages will stretch over more than two pages; such multi-page spreads often take the form of fold-out posters." - Wikipedia

Comic Cover: Rex Dexter


The Fox Comic Covers 1939-1942

Ephemera: Miss Demontagia

Uploaded by thebrammer
Via the mäktig gåsen

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Swedish Actresses: Ingrid Bergman

Photo: LIFE (thanks Bibi!)
Ingrid Bergman
(1915-82)

"three-time Academy Award-winning and two-time Emmy Award-winning actress." / "a horrible example of womanhood and a powerful influence for evil."
- Wikipedia

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Related: The Swedish Actresses series
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PS ...and no, she wasn't related to Ingmar. Now, I'm off to watch Notorious.
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Ephemera: BP

From Martin Klasch
From Martin Klasch


I found this little BP phrasebook in an antique store the other day. Thought you might like it. The top image is the cover and the image below shows the few illustrations found inside the book.

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