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- 03:11, 1 April 2024 Wild West shows (hist | edit) [20,140 bytes] Robinr78 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Header|Wild West shows 03/24}} {{Westerns sidebar|Media}} thumb|right|350px|''Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World'' - Poster showing cowboys rounding up cattle and portrait of Col. W. F. Cody on horseback. c.1899. '''Wild West shows''' were traveling vaudeville performances in the United States and Europe that existed around 1870–1920. The shows began as theatrical stage produc...")
- 02:55, 1 April 2024 Western comics (hist | edit) [20,317 bytes] Robinr78 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Header|Western comics 03/24}} {{westerns sidebar}} '''Western comics''' is a comics genre usually depicting the American Old West frontier (usually anywhere west of the Mississippi River) and typically set during the late nineteenth century. The term is generally associated with an American comic book genre published from the late 1940s through the 1950s (though the genre had continuing popularity in Europe and persists in limited form in American comics today). Wester...")
- 01:27, 1 April 2024 Lists of Western films (hist | edit) [3,718 bytes] Robinr78 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Header|Gainsboro 03/24}} This is a '''list of notable Western films''' and '''TV series''', ordered by year and decade of release. For a long-running TV series, the year is its first in production. The movie industry began with the work of Louis Le Prince in 1888. Until 1903, films had been one-reelers, usually lasting 10 to 12 minutes,<ref>{{Cite web |title=8mm Film Reel Sizes Explained for Regular & Super 8 Film Footage |url=https://...")
- 23:38, 31 March 2024 Western American Art (hist | edit) [18,238 bytes] Robinr78 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Header|Western American Art 03/24}} {{Westerns sidebar |Media}} '''Western American Art''' includes artistic work which depicts the subjects related to the Western American region, and was treated as impoverished, unwanted and unworthy art before the twentieth century, during which period it achieved respectability as a rewarding region for studying.<ref>Prown 1992, p. 1.</ref> The term holds a characteristic of narration that is different from the Modern art w...")
- 23:36, 31 March 2024 Western fiction (hist | edit) [38 bytes] Robinr78 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Header|Western fiction 03/24}} {{Westerns sidebar |Media}} '''Western fiction''' is a genre of literature set in the American Old West frontier and typically set from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Wister |first1=Owen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cIr4DwAAQBAJ&dq=Western+fiction+is+a+genre+of+literature+set+in+the+American+Old+West+frontier&pg=PT2 |title=Big Book of Best Short Stories - Specials - Western 2: Vol...")
- 23:33, 31 March 2024 Western film (hist | edit) [24,337 bytes] Robinr78 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Header|Western film 03/24}} {{Westerns sidebar |Media}} The '''Western''' is a film genre defined by the American Film Institute as films which are "set in the American West that [embody] the spirit, the struggle, and the demise of the new frontier."<ref name=":2" /> Generally set in the American frontier between the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890,<ref name="oxford">{{Cite book |url=https://books.goo...")
- 23:28, 31 March 2024 Westerns on television (hist | edit) [23,590 bytes] Robinr78 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Header|Westerns on television 03/24}} {{Westerns sidebar |Media}} '''Television Westerns''' are TV programs with settings in the later half of the 19th century in the American Old West, Western Canada and Mexico during the period from about 1860 to the end of the so-called "Indian Wars". More recent entries in the Western genre have used the neo-Western subgenre, placing events in the modern day, or the space Western subgenre but...")
- 21:29, 31 March 2024 Cigarette card (hist | edit) [8,149 bytes] Robinr78 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Header|Cigarette card 03/24}} thumb|right|250px|{{bc|Robin Roberts trading card<br>(my 2nd cousin and name sake)}} '''Cigarette cards''' are trading cards issued by tobacco manufacturers to stiffen cigarette packaging and advertise cigarette brands. Between 1875 and the 1940s, cigarette companies often included collectible cards with their packages of cigarettes. Cigarette card sets document popular culture from the turn of the centu...")
- 21:13, 31 March 2024 Trading card (hist | edit) [10,073 bytes] Robinr78 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Header|Trading card 03/24}} thumb|right|250px|{{bc|Robin Roberts trading card<br>(my 2nd cousin and name sake)}} A '''trading card''' (or collectible card) is a small card, usually made out of paperboard or thick paper, which usually contains an image of a certain person, place or thing (fictional or real) and a short description of the picture, along with other text (attacks, statistics, or trivia). There is a wide variation of different...")
- 21:11, 31 March 2024 Trade card (hist | edit) [8,523 bytes] Robinr78 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Header|Trade card 03/24}} A '''trade card''' is a square or rectangular card that is small, but bigger than the modern visiting card, and is exchanged in social circles, that a business distributes to clients and potential customers, as a kind of business card. Trade cards first became popular at the end of the 17th century in Paris, Lyon and London. They functioned as advertising and also as maps, directing the public to the merchants' stores (no f...")
- 21:04, 31 March 2024 Lyon (hist | edit) [2,739 bytes] Robinr78 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Header|Lyon, France 03/24}} '''Lyon''' (Franco-Provençal: Liyon), traditionally spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, 391 km (243 mi) southeast of Paris, 278 km (173 mi) north of Marseille, 113 km (70 mi) southwest of Geneva, 58 km (36 mi) northeast of Saint-Étienne. The City of Lyon had a population of 522,000 in 2023 within its small mu...")
- 20:38, 31 March 2024 Commercial art (hist | edit) [3,881 bytes] Robinr78 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Header|Commercial art 03/24}} 200px|thumb|right|{{bc|Andy Warhol, Campbell Soup}} '''Commercial''' art is the art of creative services, referring to art created for commercial purposes, primarily advertising. Commercial art uses a variety of platforms (magazines, websites, apps, television, etc.) for viewers with the intent of promoting the sale and interest of products, services, and ideas. It relies on the iconic image (pictorial...")
- 19:50, 31 March 2024 Norman Saunders (hist | edit) [41,228 bytes] Robinr78 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Header|Norman Saunders 03/24}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Saunders, Norman}} {{Infobox artist | color = lightblue | name = Norman Saunders | image = 1953Saunderspose.jpg | caption = Saunders and wife Ellen posing together to model a 1953 Western fiction cover painting. | birthname = Norman Blaine Saunders | birthdate = {{dob|1907|1|1|mf =y}} | birthplace = Minot, North Dakota, U.S. | deathdate = {{dod|1989|3|7|1907|1|1}} | death_place= | nationality= Ameri...")
- 13:38, 31 March 2024 Antonius (hist | edit) [784 bytes] Robinr78 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Header| 11/23}}{{DEFAULTSORT:}} '''Antonius''' is a freelance illustrator with a long background in fine art, particularly drawing. The fetish subculture has always been part of his visual influences through the works of Clive Barker, Hanz Giger, Hans Bellmer to name a few. For this bondage series he exclusively worked with real people in private sessions. He is very interested in capturing the most intimate instants before they disappear, akin to catching a lightning...")
- 12:24, 31 March 2024 Swiss Jim (hist | edit) [766 bytes] Robinr78 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Header|Swiss Jim 03/24}} The real name for this artist is unknown, he used the pseudonyms Jim of Swiss Jim, which might mean he was Swiss. The artist actively collaborated with publishers Irving Klaw and Edward Mishkin. The real identity of the artist has always remained a mystery, even to Klaw, but one collector knew that the artist was originally from Geneva. The artist was a technical draftsman for a design firm, and also worked under the pen name Gil. The artist di...")
- 05:26, 30 March 2024 Neck entry (hist | edit) [684 bytes] Robinr78 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''neck entry''' garment, generally a catsuit or leotard, is one which has no zip so the wearer must enter through the neck opening. The absence of a zip may make the garment look better. If the neck opening is wide, there is usually little difficulty getting the garment on or off. However, this can be more challenging if the opening is tight, especially if there is a polo neck. Copious amonts of dressing aid and the assistance of another person may...")
- 05:24, 30 March 2024 Moulded latex/sizes (hist | edit) [5,402 bytes] Robinr78 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Header|Moulded latex/sizes 03/24}} == Motivation == Low-cost moulded latex clothing items are often sold under various brand names, even when produced in the same factory. The reseller-supplied size tables are sometimes contradictory or vague. Some people, especially those with some body parts proportionally larger than the others, might be in doubt as to what size will fit them. Although they could order made-to-measure tailored latex clothing, finding cheap...")
- 02:45, 30 March 2024 Lupe Velez - IMDb (hist | edit) [5,311 bytes] Robinr78 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Header|Lupe Valez 02/24}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Valez, Lupe}} ; IMDb mini-bio Lupe Velez was born on July 18, 1908, in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, as Maria Guadalupe Villalobos Velez. She was sent to Texas at the age of 13 to live in a convent. She later admitted that she wasn't much of a student because she was so rambunctious. She had planned to become a champion roller skater, but that would change. Life was hard for her family, and Lupe returned to Mexico to help them out fin...") originally created as "Lupe Valez"
- 21:58, 29 March 2024 Sandra Dee (hist | edit) [15,526 bytes] Robinr78 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Header|Sandra Dee 03/24}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Dee, Sandra}} {{Infobox person | color = mistyrose | name = Sandra Dee | image = Sandra Dee 1959.jpg | caption = Dee in 1959 | birthname = Alexandra Zuck | birthdate = {{dob|1942|4|23}} | birthplace = Bayonne, New Jersey, U.S. | deathdate = {{dod|2005|2|20|1942|4|23}} | deathplace = Thousand Oaks, California, U.S. | deathcause = Kidney disease | education = University H...")
- 08:53, 29 March 2024 Sky Lopez (hist | edit) [3,081 bytes] Robinr78 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Header|Sky Lopez 01/21}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Lopez, Sky}} {{infobox pornstar | name = Stillwater, Minnesota, USA | image = Sky_Lopez_01.jpg | caption = |biographical data | birthdate = {{dob|175|12|23}} | birthplace = Stillwater, Minnesota, USA | birthname = Corrie Floris | zodiac = | hometown = | alias = Sky, SpringBreak, Sky Kallen, Skylar | ethnicity = | nationality = American | othername | education = Pacific Island...")
- 16:22, 28 March 2024 Lost film (hist | edit) [4,551 bytes] Robinr78 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Header|Lost film 03/24}} {{abridged|03/24|history of films}} thumb|right| [[Lon Chaney in ''London After Midnight'' (1927), whose last known print was destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire. A set of film production stills survives.]] A '''lost film''' is a feature or short film in which the original negative or copies are not known to exist in any studio archive, private collection, or public archive. Films can be wholly or partially...")
- 16:07, 28 March 2024 Her Gilded Cage (hist | edit) [2,614 bytes] Robinr78 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Header|Her Gilded Cage 03/24}} {{Infobox film | name = Her Gilded Cage | image = Her-gilded-cage-1922.jpg | caption = Film poster | director = Sam Wood | writer = Percy Heath | based_on = ''The Love Dreams''|Elmer Harris and Anne Nichols | starring = Gloria Swanson | cinematography = Alfred Gilks | distributor = Paramount Pictures | released = {{film date|1922|4|5}} | runti...")
- 03:15, 27 March 2024 I. Stanford Jolley (hist | edit) [3,974 bytes] Robinr78 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Header|I. Stanford Jolley 03/24}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Jolley, I. Stanford}} {{stack| {{Infobox person | color = lightblue | name = I. Stanford Jolley | image = ViolentYears_IS_Jolley.jpg | caption = Jolley in ''The Violent Years'' (1956) | birthname = Isaac Stanford Jolley | birthdate = {{dob|1900|10|24|mf=yes}} | birthplace = Elizabeth, New Jersey, U.S. | deathdate = {{dod|1978|12|07|1900|10|24|mf=yes}} | deathplace = Woodland...")
