Home Fallout Shelter, 1960
Home-based nuclear fallout shelters combined everything that magazines needed in the 1960s to attract readers: fear, home remodeling, and the opportunity for […]
Author: Lee Wallender
Deception, influence, fakes, illusions, themed environments, simulations, secret places, secret infrastructure, imagined places, dreamscapes, movie sets and props, evasions, camouflage, studio backlots, miniatures.
British DeHavilland Comet Passenger Jet, 1950
In 1950, easy passenger jet travel was still a dream that could excite the public. The deHavilland Comet was still in […]
Wright Cyclone Engine World War 2 Aircraft Cutaway, 1945
This was a fictional Second World War aircraft meant to illustrate the Wright Cyclone engine (located in the engine cowling, #10) on […]
British Artist, Illustrator G.H. Davis
Like most magazine illustrators of the early to mid 20th century, little is known about George Horace Davis. From a site dedicated […]
Illustrator Stewart Rouse
Stewart Rouse was, for a period, a staff artist at Popular Science. The magazine bio (February 1946) described Rouse as a “lanky […]
WWII Fighter Plane Cutaway Showing Gravity Suit, 1945
A cutaway within a cutaway. Drawn by Stewart Rouse, this illustrates a generic WWII fighter plane peeled back to show the pilot […]
Futuristic Car Cutaway, 1940
In 1940, it was asked if we might be driving a car like this in only two years. The novel cutaway turned […]
Home Nuclear Bomb Shelter, 1961
This cutaway of a home-based nuclear bomb shelter from 1961 was designed by the Office of Civil Defense to be built for […]
Quonset Hut / House Cutaway, 1946
A gorgeous picture of a Quonset hut from 1946, touted by Popular Science as a possible “stop gap” to the immediate post […]
Walker Bulldog T-41 Tank Cutaway, 1951
The Walker Bulldog tank was named after General Walton Walker who served in World Wars I and II and the Korean War. […]