Vintage American Ads Get Online Archive:
This past September, Jay Paull, a vintage ad enthusiast based in Reston, Va., launched an online archive to showcase his collection of more than 10,000 American advertisements dating from the 1830s to the 1920s.
I think I linked this before but it’s cool enough to link again.
Source: jaypaull.com
Popek has gathered quite a collection of ephemera in paging through old books—homemade invitations, tickets to a masquerade ball, a handwritten temperance pledge, an 1894 report card, and many more. I like the advertisement for Weingarten Brothers’ “erect form corsets” found in Miss Brown’s Basket, published in 1897, as well as the advertisement and information sheet for the “automatic sealing burial vault” found in 1963’s The Day They Shook the Plum Tree. Popek offers no insight into these things, he just presents them as-is, with transcriptions when necessary, and that is a good choice, though it seems another text is just waiting to be written.
And he has a blog. That’s going on the permalinks section. The book is being sold here. May have to pick this up.
Source: soyouthinkyoucanseeSOYOUTHINKyouaccepttheinvitation
Tupperware Party invitation /postcard / Iowa 1957
Like we’d really put the cake …okay why not
Needle Pack. Air Traveller.
from the Cowan Ephemera Collections
Pretty sure this would not be legal nowadays.
Source: smallequals
The Circulating Library, Laurie and Whittle publishers.
Three women in a circulating library, one of whom looks through the catalogue discussing the titles that interest her with the man behind the counter, October 1, 1804.
Interesting fact. At one point in history it was the norm for libraries to be structured like so, where browsing by the patron was not possible.
Source: marinni.livejournal.com
