#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #JamesBingham #PerryMason #mensfashion #suburbanhouse #CrimeFiction #1950s
ideas of comfort and style go far beyond what we’re able to offer today. That’s why we print the picture below. ...’ LIFE, March 27, 1944
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The Airlines of The United States
*The Saturday Evening Post*, March 25, 1944.
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #JamesBingham #airtravel #airlineindustry #employment #WW2
#OTD in 1944
‘Jobs . . . and the Air Age’
Illustration by James Bingham (1917-1971)
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‘Philadelphia - The Heritage Whisky’
*Collier’s*, March 24, 1945.
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‘Chagrined a little that we have been hitherto able to produce nothing in this way of use to mankind; and the hot weather coming on, when the electrical experiments are not so agreeable, it is proposed to put an end to them for this season, somewhat humorously, in a party of pleasure on the banks of the Skuylkill. Spirits, at the same time, are to be fired by a spark sent from side to side through the river, without any other conductor than the water; an experiment which we some time since performed to the amazement of many. A turkey is to be killed for our dinner by electrical shock, and roasted by the electrical jack, before a fire kindled by the electrified bottle; when the healths of all the famous electricians in England, Holland, France, and Germany are to be drank in electrified bumpers [toasting glasses], under the discharge of guns from the electrical battery.’ http://oll.libertyfund.org/quote/389
#OTD in 1945
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‘Benjamin Franklin’s electrical picnic in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, 1749’
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Illustration by James Bingham (1917-1971)
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DETAIL
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #JamesBingham #barbershop #barber #airlines #airtravel #aviation #WW2 #airplane
#OTD in 1944
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‘How Great the Promise!’
Illustration by James R. Bingham (1917-1971)
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Western Electric - A Unit of the Bell System Since 1882
*Collier’s*, March 12, 1949
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#THISWEEK in 1949
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‘What makes it worth having’
Illustration by James R. Bingham (1917-1971)
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #JamesBingham #telephones #WesternElectric #BellSystem
3 #March #WorldWildlifeDay
“Black magic” against #sharks. Capsized in shark-filled waters, the luckless fisherman sees around him the dark fins and ugly snouts of the man-hungry marauders of the sea. …’ #Illustration by #JamesBingham (1917-1971).
*The Saturday Evening Post*, Dec. 10, 1949
‘“What a mess,” Kitty Baylor said. “What have you done about Harrod, Mildred? You didn’t tell him the truth?”’
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #JamesBingham #EarleStanleyGardner #PerryMason #womensfashion #interiordesign #interiordecoration #1950s
‘Perry Mason held Mildred’s hand for a moment, looked at her searchingly, and said, “You’re certain you’ve told me all of it, Miss Driscoll?”’
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‘Perry Mason knew his beautiful client was living a lie, but he didn’t know how dangerous that lie was . . . .’
The Saturday Evening Post, February 8, 1958
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#OTD in 1958
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Illustrations by James R. Bingham (1917-1971) for
“The Case of the Footloose Doll”
by Earle Stanley Gardner
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Detail: airport
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‘In 1931, 1932...'
'In 1936, 1937...'
'In 1941, 1942...’
‘More people ride on Goodyear tires than any other kind.’
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The Airlines of The United States
*Collier’s*, January 13, 1945
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#OTD in 1945
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‘Will All Mail some day Go by Air?’
Illustration by James Bingham (1917-1971)
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #JamesBingham #mail #USPS #airmail #stagecoach
‘NOTE: The girl art in this series appears to be by Fritz Willis’ image and note from http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/10/19/what-no-bath-salts-changing-perceptions-of-homoeroticism/
‘True Towel Tales No. 4 . . . as told us by a sergeant in the Tank Corps’
Cannon Towels. LIFE, January 13, 1944
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#OTD in 1944
‘Tank Corps’
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Illustration by James Bingham (1917-1971)
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*The Saturday Evening Post*, January 7, 1956
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#OTD in 1956
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‘Nadine confessed to John that she had taken the cyanide from his laboratory. He tried to reassure her.’ #Illustration by James R. Bingham (1917-1971)
#illustrationartists #JamesBingham #WomensFashion #MensFashion #interiordesign #interiordecoration #1950s
#OTD in 1946
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‘The Season to Be Jolly’
Illustration by James R. Bingham (1917-1971)
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #JamesBingham #ChristmasTree #ChristmasArt #Natale
#Holidays
Illustration by James R. Bingham (1917-1971)
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*The Saturday Evening Post*, December 10, 1949.
#OTD in 1961
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Illustration by James R. Bingham (1917-1971) for ➡️
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In #DECEMBER 1955
Illustration by James R. Bingham (1917-1971)
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*The Saturday Evening Post*, December 1955
‘Philadelphia - Birthplace of Tradition’
*Collier’s*, November 25, 1944
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#OTD in 1944
‘America’s first successful air flight, Philadelphia’
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Illustration by James Bingham (1917-1971).
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #JamesBingham #balloon #aviation #Philadelphia
#OTD in 1943
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‘21 NAMES YOU'RE GOING TO KNOW BETTER.’’
Illustration by James Bingham (1917-1971)
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