Other People’s Family Letters
People often are shocked to discover personal things like old photos, diaries, scrapbooks, and letters up for sale at auctions and estate sales, like this collection (shown at left, sold by kathct)....
View ArticleVintage Ephemera From Three Lakes, Wisconsin
I love ephemera, so I was thrilled to find this pair of vintage travel ephemera from Three Lakes Wisconsin. The first piece is a brochure for Three Lakes, Wisconsin, issued by Three Lakes Resort...
View ArticleNothing To Write Home About? Letters From WWII
In my post at Collectors Quest today, I share my disc-overy of WWII voice mail: audio letters sent during the war. While I encourage you to read that history, I have two other items to share regarding...
View ArticleThe History Of Handwritten Letters
Many people I know who collect letters and other ephemera bemoan the lost art of letter writing, so I thought they (and you!) might like to see this History of Handwritten Letters infographic and see...
View ArticleI Am TOM. I Like to TYPE. Hear That?
For less important doodles in text, the kind that go no farther than your desk or refrigerator door, the tactile pleasure of typing old school is incomparable to what you get from a de rigueur laptop....
View ArticleIn 1913, She Told Him They Couldn’t Be Together. 100 Years Later, THIS Was...
While searching through the attic of his father’s house, a son came across boxes of old items. The most interesting were piles of love letters sent from a man named Max. From 1913-1978, Max and Pearle...
View ArticleMarilyn Monroe Still Alluring At 90
I continually swear that I’m not going to write, again, about Marilyn; but here I am again… I may have been able to to get away with a wistful smile & a re-Tweet or two in the honor of her 90th...
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