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What 1977 Looked Like, According to a Transfer Wall
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Star Wars in May, Elvis in August, Saturday Night Fever in December — and the transfer wall had all of it, hanging next to beer jokes and a 1910 railway poster.
The Fish and the Bicycle: The Women's Movement on a 1970s Shop Wall
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Six sheets in our holding are about women's lives — including the fish and the bicycle, printed twice. Nobody made them as politics. They made them because they sold.
How to Date a Vintage Iron-On Transfer (When There's No Copyright Line)
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Most transfers carry no date. Six methods for working out when one was printed — copyright lines, property debut dates, dead brands, print technique, slang, and what isn't on the sheet.
R. Crumb, 1967: A Transfer That Predates Zap Comix
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The earliest dated sheet in our holding is a 1967 R. Crumb design — printed a year before Zap Comix made him famous. The transfer trade wasn't waiting for things to become famous.
Maxfield Parrish on a T-Shirt: The Antique Poster Line Nobody Remembers
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Eight sheets in our holding reproduce commercial art that was already fifty years old when printed — Maxfield Parrish, Enoch Bolles, two railway posters and a Victorian seed catalogue. Somebody was doing this deliberately.