Image Gallery & Licensing

We welcome visitors to browse the Rube Goldberg Cartoon Gallery -- for fun, laughs, and inspiration! We have a broad range of digitized images that are searchable by title and/or subject matter. All images are available for license.

All images are the property of RGI and must be licensed for usage. Fees are based on usage. All images available for licensing are in the Gallery sections below. Click on them to see the images.

Once you find the image you are interested in, click on the "Apply for License" button. Fill in the form to see the fee. Follow the prompts to pay for the image.

Our minimum fee is $300.00.

  1. A Portable Cigar Lighter That Works
  2. Auto Vote Counting
  3. Automatic Dishwasher
  4. Automatic Life-Saving Device
  5. Baseball Scores
  6. Be Your Own Dentist
  7. Beginner Bridge Players
  8. Closing the Windows While You are Away
  9. Contraption Bed
  10. Cut Your Own Hair
  11. Easy Way to Break in a New Pipe
  12. Enjoying the Air at the Seashore
  13. fish dig up bait
  14. Foolish Questions – No. 2,333
  15. Garage Door opener
  16. Garage Invention
  17. Get rid of mouse
  18. Getting the Time on the Radio
  19. Hair Cut Reminder
  20. Handy Self opening umbrella
  21. Happiness Machine for the Holidays
  22. Home Vacation Machine
  23. How to Get Rid of a Mouse
  24. How to Get Sand Out of Your Shoes
  25. How to Protect Yourself Against a Holdup Man
  26. How to Shut Off the Movie
  27. Idea to Keep You from Forgetting to Mail Your Wife’s Letter
  28. Ideas for Sunday at the Seashore
  29. Invention for When You Slip on a Scatter Rug
  30. Inventions for Movie-Goers
  31. Keep Shop Windows Clean
  32. Mail Wife’s Letters
  33. May I Have the Next Dance?
  34. Moth Exterminator
  35. No More Laundry Delay
  36. No More Old Maids
  37. No More Over Sleeping
  38. No More Unlucky Fisherman
  39. Only One Answer
  40. Painless Tooth Extractor
  41. Patent Fan
  42. Peace Today
  43. Pencil Sharpener
  44. Picture snapping machine
  45. Postcard Book Cover
  46. Realistic Radio Football Game
  47. RG_102 Wars only winner
  48. RG_104 The dumbness of it all
  49. RG_115 Fair Deal Planning Machine
  50. RG_133 New Career Machine
  51. RG_207 Figure nextpresident
  52. RG_210 Candidate to please
  53. RG_95 Why a primary
  54. Rube and Chairs
  55. Safety Device For Icy Pavements
  56. Safety Device for Walking on Icy Pavements
  57. Sand Out of Shoe
  58. Self Scrubbing bath brush
  59. Self Working Sunshade
  60. Self-Opening Umbrella
  61. Self-Watering Palm Tree
  62. Send Late Stayer Home
  63. Sheet music turner
  64. Simple Device for Cutting Your Own Hair
  65. Simple Fly Swatter
  66. Simple Lawn sprinkler
  67. Simple Parachute
  68. Simple Way To Carve Turkey
  69. Simple Way to get Fresh Orange Juice upon Awakening
  70. Simple Way to Open a Tight Window
  71. Simple Way to Take Own Photo
  72. Speed, Speed, and More Speed
  73. Stock Speculation’s in House Doctor
  74. The Numbers Blues
  75. Traffic Signals
  76. Turn On the Steam Before You Get Out of Bed
  77. Way to find glasses
  78. Windshield wiper
  79. Working Knowledge Article
  80. World Fair Gadgets

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