These are relatively strange Mutoscope cards, in that their allure is less obvious than other more typical examples, which often depict women with skirts flying up in the air. Since I already explained what Mutoscope cards are in a previous post, I won't do it again. If you didn't read it (or can't remember), you should really check out this previous post.
Saturday, May 1, 2010
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I hadn't read your blog about mutoscope--I will go there now--these are spectacular!!!
ReplyDeleteThey really are classic works of art in their way. We would call that airbrushing today, but I don't know what the tinting process was then..maybe mutoscope, right?
ReplyDeleteThey look really classic :) Beautiful indeed.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I got your card thank you very much. I posted in my blog already here.
I finally got the 'shoulder...arms!' text as a reference to the military drill call, a little slow this weekend... I'm sure that the Mutoscope pix were very popular with soldiers.
ReplyDeleteThanks, anonymouse...I never did get that, until you mentioned it.
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