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Faked old photos

This old time cover art slays me.

1930s publicity shots, 1870s make believe.

From the photo book Vintage Photographs of Arcane Americana

Does this 1889 bonnet head lady look like anything to you?

Hint:

Here’s the source book, including the old sheet music:

From ephemerastudies.org:

A giant buffalo-shaped building projected for the 1901 Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, NY.

Names of medicine show pitchmen:

1. Doc Zip Hibler
2. Mad Cody Fleming
3. Widow Rollins
4. Sergeant Poulos
5. Pens Patterson
6. the Canadian Kid
7. Sox Clark
8. Ask-Me Dodge
9. the Ragan Twins (Mary and Madaline)
10. Paperman Dell
11. Sir Tom Rogers
12. Doc El Vison (“Lord Dietz”)
13. Population Charlie
14. Professor Mayfield
15. Joe “Fine Arts” Hanks, the punkmugger

(From Jimmie Rodgers: The Life and Times of America’s Blue Yodeler)