Thanks Chris, I found that pretty amazing, I had never seen most of those ads before. Makes you realize we've probably only scratched the surface of the commercial graphics that were out there promoting race recordings. It's reassuring that people are turning up 'new' stuff from back then.
It's interesting that the style and rendering is more homegrown than the Chicago Defender classics we've all seen. Probably the images that have become famous was the more technically rendered material which is probably why it was preserved. However the more amateur fringe stuff is equally interesting, well actually maybe even more so, IMO
Not to mention the context... who lived in that house, that they would plaster the fireplace with crazy newspaper ads for blues records?? Another destination for the wayback m/c.
