r/ephemera

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1979. Two French retirees, both over 65, handcrafted this 3-volume travel journal of their 30-day train journey across 9 countries, 7000 km, 59 cities, 26 currency exchanges. All original ephemera still pasted inside.
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my grandma kept track of all the boys she dated in 1940 and wrote my darling little soldier as her first impression of the man she would end up marrying
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Sketchbook from 1900
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My Collection of Antique Hold-To-Light Postcards
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Adopted Girl's Baby Book, by Birth Mother
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My Grandpappy’s last Driver’s License: Born in ‘89...That’s *1889*
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I found a school atlas from 1854, and it had some drawings made by schoolchildren over 150 years ago
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I found 9 secret diaries of a French teenager who had Mussolini's photo on his bedroom wall in 1922. His psychology is disturbingly familiar.
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My mom's high school notebook doodles. She was a sophomore in 1980.
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Card my grandmother gave her dad as a little girl.
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Found in a jar of receipts of bills & receipts.
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Menu found in old 1930's Scrap Book
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was at a garage sale and spotted this in the gentleman’s garage. said he used wallpaper paste to put it up nearly 40 years ago
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Edwardian Era Scrapbook from Young Girl in New York
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Some of my favourites from these autograph books from the turn of the last century
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Fell out of an antique book purchased at Goodwill
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1950s Paper Dolls
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Saved these from going to landfill. Handmade Books from 1839
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Found a sketchbook from someone’s European tour. I’m thinking it’s from the 30’s.
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Portrait that was tucked inside an old dictionary
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NO. 0010 - WHITE/RED
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Roy Teleh, the greatest detective the complete 1910 detective series written by a French child, secret codes and hypnotism included
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Boys would give these to girls in the early 1900's in the hope of seeing them home.
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1928 Letter by my 10 year old grandmother from Australian Boarding School to father.
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Boarders Bookmark Traveled
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Old diary found in abandoned house
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Antique scrap/sticker book full of incredible pieces.
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Colgate's Weekend Package, Travel Vanity Box Set (1920's)
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This was fun. Friend gave me an antique humidor and inside the walls were scraps of a letter. Which I pieced together (omitting the blank sides)
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A library card from the 1920s found inside a book that was one of 3000 present at the eastern colored branch of the Louisville free public library
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Today’s find: Sexual Consent form from the 1950s
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Took down a plate glass mirror in our house and found a newspaper from January of 1930!
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Dr.Dan Makes Special House Calls!
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70s Wedding Wrapping Paper
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Ben & Jerry’s Pamphlet from 1996
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True Love magazine from 1961 ft. takes on birth control, divorce, and my dear Henrietta
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Going through some old books when I found this.
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Almost full pack of Japanese ww2 cigarettes
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One Moment Please!
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Boston evening post newspaper from April 23 1764
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Linen Postcards
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Letter from my aunt found in my moms things
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Grandma’s unused romance novel themed calendar from 1995
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A 16 year old girl’s 1901 relationship drama
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Party invitations from 1988, found in a book by my friend
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I kept my movie tickets from highschool and college dates.
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Cleaning out more pictures & papers from the family....my Mom saved a lot. This is the menu from Thanksgiving 1952 that my Dad sent to her. He was serving in the Navy during the Korean War.
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My grandmother’s autograph book, signed by her classmates in October of 1935.
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Handmade Christmas card 1930’s
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1960s Christian Nationalist AntiVax Newspaper
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Hospital bill from my 1964 birth
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A massive scrapbook lovingly put together by a young boy in the 1920s and early 1930s
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Found in the walls of my home during a gut renovation. Hoboken, NJ USA. (1880) Program for an event hosted by The Amity Pleasure Club.
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Just found in an old wallet of my mother’s from her ‘single living in a flat with two roommates’ days!
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A box of photos from a long dead firefighter. 1970’s aftermath of the house fire of a doll collector.
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A small sample of my mother’s political ephemera from the late 60s to early 70s.
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“The World Of Tomorrow” a tunnel book diorama souvenir from the 1939 World’s Fair in New York
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1930s ice cream ad that could produce an “explosion”, from my collection
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Hewlett Packard Customer Support Americas feelings magnet (1994?)
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I am a terrible human being
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Found a massive lot of old People and US magazines from the 70s and 80s, including at least one very problematic one.
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JCPenney Gift Certificate (1989)
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Writings of a grieving widow
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Found this tiny black notebook in France, it's the personal field diary of a Japanese social welfare officer covering 1,727 households through the last year of WWII and its immediate aftermath (1944–1946). The handwriting alone is devastating.
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sometimes i find money, sometimes i find a 34-year-old fritos bag
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Vintage Hollywood 400 Mail order bride catalog
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Tiny Underwood advertising booklet literally fell out of the binding of a 1902 cookbook
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Doing more demo in a house built in 1850, and found more news papers under 6 layers of flooring.
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Fun little find at my Uncle’s house.
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This is one of the few reasons I love being related to generational hoarders. Magazines from 1918-1978
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WW2 ration coupon book. Can I still use the leftover coupons?
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Found this postcard behind a fireplace in our family’s old home.
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Bugs Bunny plastic bag dated 1992
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Vintage Valentine’s belonging to my Mom - late 1940s.
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Some of my favorite parts from my recent ebay find. 1920's scrapbook of a girl from Ohio who loved Opera and Plays
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1937 Coronation of King George, scrapbook/school project
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Sifting through some items and found a photo of pirates
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Cartoon originals by Bo Brown
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I’ve been told this belongs here. I found this old Kellogg’s Rice Krispies coupon in my grandmothers cookbook. It expired in 1952.
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The baby card guide that the hospital sent home with my great grandparents after my Nana was born in 1936
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students medical notebook from 1896 in mint condition
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A Valentine’s card from my grandmother to my grandfather.
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~100 year old Palmolive ad
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Had to save a stack of old photos at the end of an estate sale. Couldn’t let them go in the dumpster. I decided that the dog is a “Winston.”
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Looked in the attic of the mid century house I was photographing- old paper dolls!
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Leslie’s Button Collection - she put them all on burlap and had them hanging on a wall. many fell off when it was removed
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Peak 80's graphic design
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In 1933, my Grandpappy, bartered a cow, a pig, and an inner tube to pay a neighbor’s 13-year-old son for five months of farm labor.
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1931-32 French schoolgirl's geography notebook: handwritten notes, hand-drawn maps, original stamps, tourist brochures & cut illustrations across Europe & North Africa
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Found these 80-100 year old ticket stubs at a flea market. I am so excited
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Found in my dad's lockbox along with his original Social security card
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Saved this from going to landfill,London,UK. I don’t think it’s a dend ? Or a loan. It’s in red ink or maybe it’s descolour ? Can anyone workout what it’s about ? Not got a clue in to its age ?
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I was told to post here- gotta love a thrift store Bible stuffed with little bits, especially for $2.
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a touching testimony of British popular culture from the Edwardian era and the Great War.
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