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POSTCARDS FROM THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY:
AN ARCHIVE OF SOURCE IMAGES

Nov 13

portal

July 29, 1907, Massachusetts

A green lawn.

April 12, 1911, Ontario

A heavily retouched green lawn. During an artist panel lecture at Allegra La Viola Gallery last weekend (the topic was Dungeons and Dragons), one of the artists noted how mid-19th century illustrators emphasized the colossal proportions of a place by reducing the height of the figures by half. It works in Guelph, too.


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