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Vintage Ephemera: Christmas Cards
Vintage Ephemera: Reading Both Sides of a Postcard
Recently, I came across two postcards that were very very funny. Not so much because of the humor of the printed postcard but rather, because the written message was the punch line. This postcard was printed in 1908, a leap year. The woman with the gun reflects the common stereotype that women who asked men…
The Spirit of the Gift: A Box of Chocolates
Tucked in an old trunk, an empty box of chocolates with an inscription, Kenneth's first box of chocolates given by Uncle Darrel Sept. 7, 1926. The old box is fragile; it was constructed of paper but, it had survived over the course of eighty-eight years! I imagine that Kenneth left the box behind when he…
Ephemera
Ephemera is one of those words that when spoken sounds like its meaning . . . a soft, wispy sound like whisper and rhymes with chimera. Ephemera are things that last only for a brief moment in time . . . like whispers and chimera, ephemera lack real substance but not necessarily importance in everyday life. You might even say that we…
Pieces of the Past – An Antique Notebook
Sometimes it happens during my travels that I find somethings that stirs not only curiosity but also my emotion. And sometimes, I doubt that I should be the keeper of the bit or scrap of paper, documents, letters, memos, receipts. If found in an archive, these bits of the past are classified as documents, if…