SOLD Sumo Wrester Shot on Screen, Mid 20th Century Annotated Snapshot antique American wirework The sleeping dog

The sleeping dog

I might guess 1920s based on the unearthing of King Tut's tomb in 1922 and the Egypt-mania that occurred around it

plus terrific black and white text illustrations by W

I found these together in a ziplock bag

SOLD Sumo Wrester Shot on Screen, Mid 20th Century Annotated Snapshot antique American wirework The sleeping dogI love a snapshot of a television screen, pointing us to a single second in time, and bringing us straight into the content on what's playing, while also delivering a lot of information in what surrounds it; a TV is nothing if not a frame. And a Sumo wrestler at the center of a mid century American television screen sure feels like an apt portrait of the culture. Perfectly, simply captioned, as if looking toward the future and imagining a time when