Once again this Christmastide, it is the privilege of your helpful Richfield dealer to bring you holiday greetings in this booklet of best loved carols (from circa 1950s).
See more pages from Christmas Carols: In Song and Story…
Related post:
Christmas Carols from your Richfield Dealer
Richfield Christmas Carols
Illustration by Neil Boyle
Originally uploaded by Paula Wirth
Richmond Christmas Carols (and Christmas in the Early West)
‘Tis the season for holiday ephemera, starting with this excellent little booklet of carols from Richfield Oil Corporation. The richly illustrated centerfold tells (questionable) legends of how Christmas was celebrated in the wilderness of the Early West.
The illustrations are by the Canadian-born illustrator Neil Boyle (1931-2006).
More illustrations from the book of carols…
See record cover illustrations by Neil Boyle on Leif Peng’s blog, Today’s Inspiration, and read Boyle’s bio at the Lee Youngman Art Gallery…
Enjoy even more jolly vintage Christmas ephemera (and kitsch), in the flickr pool Vintage Christmas: 1945-1970…
I’m Yours For Tonight
Illustration by ‘Hap’ Hadley
Originally uploaded by Paula Wirth
Of all my ephemera collections, the one I am the most addicted to is my vintage sheet music collection. It’s truly massive.
One of the issues I always had with scanning my collection is that most scanner beds are too small to scan a piece of sheet music in one go. If I wanted a scan with no major cropping, I had to do two scans and tile the piece together in Photoshop. (The same went for large magazine pages, like the Post).
Let me just sing the praises of Photoshop CS3 for a moment. The new Photomerge feature is a godsend. No more must I do all that layering, rotating, color matching, blending and merging by hand — the new feature makes it so easy, and totally seamless. Thanks, Adobe!!! Now I have no excuse for not scanning all my larger pieces!
This gorgeous piece from 1932, I’m Yours For Tonight, with a lovely female closeup paired with a smoking male silhouette, is illustrated by ‘Hap’ Hadley Studio (born Alvan Cordell Hadley).
For more of my collection, see my Vintage Sheet Music set. For more submissions, see the Vintage Sheet Music flickr pool.
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