The Game of Medicinal Herbs

Jeu d’Herbes Medicinales par Kneipp [Germany, c. 1905]

A board game based on alternative medicine theories promoted by the Catholic priest Sebastian Kneipp (1821-1897) who became known for his herbal remedies.

Schwimm, Schwamm, Schwumm

Illustrated plates from a German primer on swimming.

Carl Purkart, Vorschriften für den Schwimmunterricht (München, 1826)

The crowd outside the bordello

A peepshow (or kullisentheater) by Martin Engelbrecht, circa 1750,
showing the exterior of a bordello (Das Bordell).
Hand-colored copper-engraved sheets, made in Augsburg, Germany.

Playing Card sample book (Germany)

A saleman’s sample book for a line of playing cards produced in Northern Germany, circa the early 1950s.

 

Kaputt-nik!

Three issues of a radical and far-out magazine, Charlie Kaputt, from Berlin, 1968.

Truth in Advertising

Posters from Die Deutsche Werbegraphik (Berlin : Verlag Francken & Lang, 1927)

Urban puzzle

A wood block, lithographed puzzle featuring scenes of world cities.
Publisher unknown, ca. 1880s, possibly made in Germany. 

Money makes the world go around, the world go around, the world go around . . .

German banknotes designed by Herbert Bayer, 1923

 

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notgeld
and: http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/5373/notgeld.htm
and: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Bayer