Beautiful page from St.Nicholas Magazine by Walt Kelly creator of the comic strip Pogo and Disney Animator you can see some influence from Harrison Cary with this crowd shot.
Cross-section of a Parisian house, 1885. From LA NATURE—REVUE DES SCIENCES ET DE LEURS APPLICATIONS AUX ARTS ET À L’INDUSTRIE.
Karl Arnold
Some Beautiful Music Sheet Covers by Einar Nerman from made between 1912-1932 I love the simplicity of these many artist think detail is needed to make art pieces good but Nerman’s designs are examples of how less is more the strong simple character designs,simple one color backgrounds that blend into the characters and beautiful staging.
Beautiful covers by kinda forgotten cartoonist Don Herold an early master of minimalism in cartooning a lot of his drawings take whatever is being depicted and boil them down to the simplest shapes to near stick figure proportions but you can tell he knows how to exaggerate the simplicity to make good gags.
1920 Alice Delysia in costume for "Afgar", a musical comedy which enjoyed a lengthy run in both London and New York. From The Jazz Age, FB.
Early modern girls as portrayed by Katsuzi Matsumoto. Japanese Girl's Magazine "Shoujo Gaho" prize-winning postcards.
'To the country where the cherry blossoms bloom and my mother lives'.
松本かつぢ 初期のモダンガール 少女画報の懸賞絵葉書。
『櫻咲く母います國へ』
Ernesto Garcia Cabral