The antique advertisement depicts a rectilinear grid of long, broad, intersecting streets stretching for two miles between navigable rivers to east and west, and a mile from north to south.
Doll fragments, wallpaper, plastic animals, Jesus, Madonna and Elvis heads, superhero toys, electric and mechanical parts, antique photographs, magazine advertisements: all this and much more go into the mix and are arranged with an unerring design sense.
Mr. Tefteller lives in rural Oregon but spends much of the year traversing the country for fresh stock, placing "Records Wanted" advertisements in antiques catalogs and The Farmer's Almanac.
By this time, in 1931, Cornell had accumulated a stash of comparable images: advertisements, fashion shots, antique prints, art-history reproductions, photo spreads of singers and starlets.
Another, more meaningful connection, often made, is to Balthus, whose frozen figures in awkward poses borrowed from antique book illustrations and magazine advertisements to convey a similarly sly, sour melancholy.
Interpol and auction houses around Europe have been alerted and advertisements placed in antiques trade publications to alert dealers.
Collectors will find antique bottles, jars, pottery, jugs and advertisements on sale, as well as experts who can give appraisals.
