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Feature illustration, “A Long-Playing Medicine”LIFE magazine, June 10, 1957

“Paradises Lost,” illustrationVenture: The Traveler’s WorldJune 1964 (premiere issue) Thanks to Mike Baehr of Fantagraphics.

The Newspaper Archive offers a massive online database of regional papers. It claims to have archived 895 million articles published in 747 cities over 240 years. In case you’ve run out of things to read on the web, here’s a bottomless library. I bought a ten-day pass to search for Jim Flora illustrations. Easy, right? Well, yes and no. NA’s search engine uses OCR to find word strings in old newsprint that’s been erratically scanned….

Flora-related stuff on the web: Dan Pearson of the Pioneer-Press (Illinois) reviews the Lake County Discovery Museum‘s exhibit: “Flora’s Art is Full of Fun.” Story includes interviews with LCDM’s Steve Furnet and your Florablogger. “Scribbler,” based in San Antonio, blogs about Vintage Books My Kid Loves, including Flora’s Kangaroo for Christmas and Grandpa’s Farm. Flora illustratrations for “Will Robots Make People Obsolete?” Parade Magazine, 1959, posted at the Paleo-Future blog. And download some Flora WFMU…

Look magazine, December 27, 1955

Detail, “Ohio,” illustration for Container Corporation of America Fortune magazine, 1947

Spot illustration, Research & Engineering, April 1956

Illustration, “The Challenge of Frontier Products Development”Research and Engineering magazine, cover detail, July 1956

“Industrial Research in Europe 1955” Research & Engineering magazine, cover elementOctober-November 1955

Illustration, “Human Engineering: Tailoring the Machine to the Man” Research and Engineering magazine, February 1956

Esquire magazine, September 1954

The cover of the Weekly, anyway (print edition, September 19-25 issue), in conjunction with the just-opened exhibition at Fantagraphics Bookstore/Gallery. The illustration is a detail from Flora’s 1954 RCA Victor LP cover Shorty Rogers Courts the Count. The Weekly’s Fall Arts section includes this nifty Flora cavalcade and a dozen interior spot placements: