In the late '60's I worked for Bell Labs for a few years managing a data center and developing an ultra high speed information retrieval system. It was the days of beehive hair on the women and big mainframe computers. One day I took a camera to work and shot the pictures below. I had a great staff, mostly women except for the programmers who were all men. For some reason only one of them was around for the pictures that day.
From Harry Clarke to 1890's storybooks, if you're looking for unique images or clipart for use on your web pages or in other design or craft projects you've come to the right place. There's a treasury here at Grandma's Graphics that you probably won't find anywhere else online. Some of these graphics are quite large and take time to load, but be patient, they're worth the wait.
Below you’ll find the celebration of retro and vintage design — ads, illustrations, book covers, pins and posters from 1920-1980s.
Images from Japanese psychiatric medication advertisements : 1956-2003
Below is a category list of the billboards that I have. These billboards haven't been seen by anyone for as many as 50 years. They are all original and never been used.
A couple of space colony summer studies were conducted at NASA Ames in the 1970s. Colonies housing about 10,000 people were designed. A number of artistic renderings of the concepts were made. These have been converted to jpegs and are available as thumbn
A complete set of the 1968-1974 Alcoholics Anonymous comic strips
A selection of front covers of books by William S. Burroughs
old clothes are cooler, but not always cheaper. men were smaller then, these clothes might just fit
a great bunch of things to try to steal ideas from