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Gus Frederick
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Gus Frederick is a native Oregonian. He is by training a multimedia artist. Through his self-publishing organization "Liberal University Press," he continues to create visual books featuring different aspects of Oregon history.
Yesterday I posted this one to Facebook and they took it down with a posted virtual "hand slap!" Said it "Violates Community Standards..." :-)
January 22, 2025 at 6:52 PM
"Arbitration in a Strike" by Homer Davenport, 1899. From Davenport's second collection titled "The Dollar or the Man? The Question of To-Day" 1900. I sent you a copy of my annotate edition. Did you ever receive it?
January 4, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Guess who won that honor in 1938?
December 12, 2024 at 11:58 PM
A "Retrofitted" meme from Alex:
December 11, 2024 at 12:37 AM
"Buzz Windrip" is a literary analog from a 1935 novel...
December 11, 2024 at 12:35 AM
"Buzz Windrip" is a literary analog from 1935:
December 11, 2024 at 12:02 AM
FWIW, "Buzz Windrip" is a literary analog from 1935...
December 10, 2024 at 11:48 PM
Oregon cartoonist Homer Davenport (1867-1912) did this great cartoon in 1897 that pretty much explains the concept from the Guilded Age:

The Dingley Tariff Act of 1897, introduced by U.S. Representative Nelson Dingley, Jr., of Maine, (shown here as a shopkeeper raising the prices of his goods).
December 10, 2024 at 11:35 PM
Universal Mental Liberty:
December 10, 2024 at 7:57 PM
History through cartoons: From Homer Davenport's second book "The Dollar or the Man? The Question of Today," first published in 1900. This piece is titled "Arbitration in a Strike."
press.liberaluniversity.org/dotm00.php
December 6, 2024 at 12:36 AM
Yup...
December 5, 2024 at 11:24 PM
December 4, 2024 at 11:36 PM