Awful Library Books: Canada. Young Giant of the North by Adelaide Leitch, T. Nelson (London, New York), 1964, 223 p.

Nicholas Osborn is the founder of SquareAmerica.com: “Square America is a site dedicated to preserving and displaying vintage snapshots from the first 3/4s of the 20th Century. Not only do these photographs contain a wealth of primary source information on how life was lived they also constitute a shadow history of photography, one too often ignored by museums and art galleries. Or at least that’s what I tell people- more accurately, the site is a catalog of my obsession with vintage photographs. For the last eight years or so I’ve spent countless hours digging through boxes of old snapshots at flea markets (mostly here in Chicago and in NYC) and too much money buying photos on eBay.” (read more) Follow his blog. Consider buying his book.

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“Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) was a 20th century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States, where Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine over more than four decades. (Wikipedia)

Read “The History Behind Norman Rockwell and the Saturday Evening Post Covers” over at the Norman Rockwell Museum of Vermont website.

Martin Klasch’s blog. / My  Christmas Treasury Belongs to… A vintage illustration set by Tales of Whoa.