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                  The Johnson Automatic Perspective Machine

Mark [1] hired me to do some HTML (HyperText Markup Language) work for his
company [2]. Basically, jazz up some pages for a demo of his product,
Seminole [3]. So I figured some graphic images, a logo-type deal, would be
nice for the hypothetical, Internet enabled toaster we're doing for a
demonstration (later on, we might add a consumer grade router type device,
but I'm still getting used to his templating system and working with what
he's done so far). I'm not that graphically savvy to create logos and whatnot
so I decided to check the net to see if there were public domain clip art
that could be appropriated.

[A Sextant] [4]There does exist a nice body of public domain clip art, but
not much that is accessible by website. Sure, there are websites that will
sell you CDs and books of public domain clip art (such as Dover Publications
[5]), but they don't make it directly available via their sites.

But I did find two [6] sites (Images in the Public Domain) [7] that had some
Victorian/Edwardian era clip art.

I have a thing for late 1800/early 1900 line art.

[Stem-Winding Gear] [8]During the 80s, Wendy's [9] design motif was turn-of-
the-century and all the counter and table tops where decorated in old
advertising. I used to love reading the various advertisements and gaze at
wonder at the line art. The intricate detail. The cross hatching. The various
line weights. Beautiful stuff.

And now I'm drooling over Heck's Pictorial Archive of Nature and Science [10]
(which inspired many of the O'Reilly [11] book covers), Heck's Pictorial
Archive of Military Science, Geography and History [12] and Heck's Pictorial
Archive of Art and Architecture [13].

Drool. Drool. Drool.

[Idle Wheel] [14]But guess what Ftrain [15] should showcase (besides the
Johnson Automatic Perspective Machine, write for particulars to Shaw &
Johnson, Tampa, Fla) but hundreds of magazines (Making of America) [16] from
the late 1800s to early 1900s, with tons and tons of public domain
Victorian/Edwardian clip art. All online.

Drool.

[1] http://grumpy.conman.org/
[2] http://www.gladesoft.com/
[3] http://www.gladesoft.com/products/seminole/
[4] gopher://gopher.conman.org/gPhlog:2004/01/13/sextant.gif
[5] http://store.doverpublications.com/
[6] http://www.oldtimeclipart.com/clipart/frame_cat_w_mechanic.html
[7] http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/public/public_domain.htm
[8] gopher://gopher.conman.org/gPhlog:2004/01/13/watch.gif
[9] http://www.wendys.com/
[10] http://store.yahoo.com/doverpublications/0486282910.html
[11] http://www.oreilly.com/
[12] http://store.yahoo.com/doverpublications/0486282902.html
[13] http://store.yahoo.com/doverpublications/0486282546.html
[14] gopher://gopher.conman.org/gPhlog:2004/01/13/gears.gif
[15] http://ftrain.com/TufteVsBloom002.html
[16] http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/index.html

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