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lronlacy.bsky.social @lronlacy.bsky.social · 5h

For #OCTOBER 2001
‘The End of All Things’
#JohnHowe (b. 1957)
Cover #illustration for Christopher Tolkien, *The End of the Third Age* (1998)
Reproduced *Tolkien Calendar 2001* (HarperCollins) for October
#illustrationart #illustrationartists #JRRTolkien #TheLordOfTheRings #LOTR

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lronlacy.bsky.social @lronlacy.bsky.social · 5h

For #OCTOBER 1991
‘The Dark Tower’
John Howe (b. 1957)
*The Tolkien Calendar 1991* (Unwin Paperbacks) for October
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #JohnHowe #JRRTolkien #TheLordOfTheRings #LOTR

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lronlacy.bsky.social @lronlacy.bsky.social · 5h

In #OCTOBER 1961
Closing the XXII Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev speaks in favor of unity and brotherhood among peoples. October 1961.
#USSR #NikitaKrushchev #XXIIPartyCongress

lronlacy.bsky.social @lronlacy.bsky.social · 5h

“Series opener” by Charles Einstein
‘This was it - Ben’s first World Series game. And for all the sports writers and the fans knew, he wasn’t even in it.’
*Collier’s*, October 14, 1955
#illustrationart #illustrationartists #DomLupo #baseball #WorldSeries #lockerroom

lronlacy.bsky.social @lronlacy.bsky.social · 5h

#OTD in 1955
‘The look the manager gave Ben said, I won’t tell these writers one word - they’d never understand’
Illustration by Dom Lupo (1919-2013) for ➡️
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #DomLupo

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lronlacy.bsky.social @lronlacy.bsky.social · 5h

and the steady parade of wonders it creates. ...’
Dietzgen - Precision Equipment & Supplies for Engineers, Architects, Draftsmen, Surveyors and Scientists. October 1955
#Dietzgen #engineering #equipment #engineers #architects #draftsmen #surveyors #scientists

lronlacy.bsky.social @lronlacy.bsky.social · 5h

In #OCTOBER 1955
‘Your life has been touched by their magic’
Illustration by ‘#RUDI’
🧵👇
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #industrialsublime
‘... Few people stop to realize how much their *own* lives have been bettered by America’s vast engineering talent ➡️

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lronlacy.bsky.social @lronlacy.bsky.social · 5h

#OTD in 1952
‘American flame thrower units advancing toward tunnel entrance. Battle of Triangle Hill. October 14, 1952 to November 25, 1952.’
#KoreanWar

Image & caption from https://www.extrastory.cz/mediatorch.html?galItem=44501&galAlbum=3842&source=6973&galTag=

lronlacy.bsky.social @lronlacy.bsky.social · 5h

‘Peng Dehuai, left, commander of the Chinese Communist Forces meets with Kim Il Sung, premier of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea...’
#PengDehuai #NorthKorea #KimIlSung #KoreanWar #DPR #PRC #NorthKorea

From Brigadier General Edwin H. Simmons, USMC (Ret), ‘Chapter 4: Frozen Chosin U.S. Marines at the Changjin Reservoir’ in *U.S. Marines in the Korean War*, ed. Charles R. Smith (History Division, United States Marine Corps, Washington, D.C. 2007) 209-342, p. 214.

lronlacy.bsky.social @lronlacy.bsky.social · 5h

#OTD in 1950
#China, for now covertly, intervenes in the #KoreanWar
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‘#YaluRiver, #Andong, 14 October, 1950. 334th Regiment, 119th Division, of Fifteenth Chinese Field Army crosses the Yalu. The CCF moved great numbers of battle-hardened veterans into #NorthKorea, undetected.’

Image from https://gs.ctrip.com/html5/you/travels/315/3804067.html
Caption from http://www.koreanwaronline.com/arms/yalu1.htm

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lronlacy.bsky.social @lronlacy.bsky.social · 5h

“One Touch of Miracle” by Richard Carlson
‘To the really good people of the world something wonderful does happen now and again. As in this story. And then you feel good all over.’
*Good Housekeeping*, October 1946

lronlacy.bsky.social @lronlacy.bsky.social · 5h

In #OCTOBER 1946
‘There’s no law anywhere that says you can’t make love while you’re waiting for a hitch’
👇🧵
Illustration by Jon Whitcomb (1906-1988) for ➡️
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #JonWhitcomb #mensfashion #womensfashion #1940s

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lronlacy.bsky.social @lronlacy.bsky.social · 5h

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lronlacy.bsky.social @lronlacy.bsky.social · 5h

2: ‘“You know what that means?” asks the somber beauty. “Yes, I do,” answers Aleta calmly. “It is not the fashion for an empress to have any living rival. And then, too, you will want revenge on Prince Valiant.”’

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lronlacy.bsky.social @lronlacy.bsky.social · 5h

is summoned to the apartment of Sadonia, Donardo’s empress. “So you are Aleta of the Misty Isles; Donardo loved me in his fashion, until you came. Then he had eyes for none but you. Donardo did not return from that raid last night, so it might be that now my son is emperor!”’

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lronlacy.bsky.social @lronlacy.bsky.social · 5h

#OTD in 1945
Prince Valiant, art and text by Hal Foster
From No. 453 - October 14, 1945
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1: ‘Synopsis: The morning after Prince Valiant took Donardo prisoner Aleta ➡️

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lronlacy.bsky.social @lronlacy.bsky.social · 5h

#OTD in 1944
(cowboy band)
Cover of The New Yorker, October 14, 1944
Victor De Pauw
#TheNewYorkerCover #VictorDePauw #rodeo

lronlacy.bsky.social @lronlacy.bsky.social · 5h

of war. New ships . . . re-conditioned ships . . . freighters . . . tankers . . . men-of-war - all are speeding men and materials to the points where they can hit the enemy where it hurts. ...’
#BridgeportBrass Company
October 1943
#copper #alloys #WW2 #industrialsublime

lronlacy.bsky.social @lronlacy.bsky.social · 5h

In #OCTOBER 1943
‘To Hit where it Hurts’
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Illustration by Ralph Crawley
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #RalphCrawley #industrialsublime #shipbuilding
‘The strategy of attack is now turning the tide ➡️

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lronlacy.bsky.social @lronlacy.bsky.social · 5h

Photograph by Alfred Palmer (1906-1993), Office of War Information (OWI).
👉ALT
#WW2 #AlfredPalmer #OWI #NorthAmericanAviation #defenseindustry #B25bomber #assemblyline

Alfred Palmer/OWI/LOC
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2011/08/world-war-ii-the-american-home-front-in-color/100122/
‘Alfred T. Palmer (1906-1993) was a photographer best known for his photographs depicting Americana during World War II as an Office of War Information photographer from 1942 until 1943.’ Wikipedia

lronlacy.bsky.social @lronlacy.bsky.social · 5h

In #OCTOBER 1942
👇🧵
‘An employee in the drill-press section of North American's huge machine shop runs mounting holes in a large dural casting, in Inglewood, California, in October of 1942.’

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lronlacy.bsky.social @lronlacy.bsky.social · 5h

In #OCTOBER 1940
‘Mr. Leatherman, homesteader, shooting hawks which have been carrying away his chickens, Pie Town, New Mexico’
Color transparency by #RussellLee (1903-1986) for the #FarmSecurityAdministration October 1940
#PieTown #NewMexico #homesteading #farming

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2178344115/in/photostream/

lronlacy.bsky.social @lronlacy.bsky.social · 5h

In #OCTOBER 1940
‘Mr Leatherman, homesteader, coming out of his dugout home, Pie Town, New Mexico’
Color transparency by #RussellLee (1903-1986) for the #FarmSecurityAdministration October 1940
#PieTown #NewMexico #homesteading #homesteaders #colorphotography #farming #TheNewDeal

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/fsac.1a34165/

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lronlacy.bsky.social @lronlacy.bsky.social · 5h

#OTD in 1939
(new family car)
Cover of The New Yorker, October 14, 1939
Perry Barlow
#TheNewYorkerCover #PerryBarlow #cardealer #showroom #Automotivedesign #autoshow

lronlacy.bsky.social @lronlacy.bsky.social · 5h

#Fortune for #OCTOBER 1939
Illustration by Antonio Petruccelli (1907-1994)
Cover of *Fortune*, October 1939
#FortuneCover #illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #graphicdesign #AntonioPetruccelli

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