Vintage Our Leader Toy Soldier Broom Label 1930s-1940s Art Deco Marching Band Chromolithograph NOS Advertising Art 🧹 mid_century_advertising the schoolhouse

the schoolhouse

The entire state of Wyoming

or home bar or recreation room styled in a mid-century American mode

The main vulnerability is the printed surface

Vintage Our Leader Toy Soldier Broom Label 1930s-1940s Art Deco Marching Band Chromolithograph NOS Advertising Art 🧹 mid_century_advertising the schoolhouseWhat Survives When Everything Was Made to Be Thrown Away? There is a particular kind of wonder that comes over you when you hold something that was never supposed to last. Not a portrait painted for posterity, not a commemorative medallion struck for a veteran's mantelpiece but a broom label. A rectangle of printed paper engineered to be pasted onto a wooden handle in a hardware store stockroom, sold to a housewife or a janitor, and swept into