Ephemera

Vintage Hallowe’en Postcards

10 October 2010

A bit of Hallowe’en history, and a slideshow of Hallowe’en postcards.

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The Atomic Age!

3 June 2010

I found a cache of very old US government booklets about atomic energy and scanned portions of them for your pleasure.

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Prehistory

9 February 2008

My mother kept souvenirs of all sorts from all our family vacations. A while back my father and I came across a collection of program books and ticket stubs covering decades of family vacations, Among these questionable treasures was the 1971 Walt Disney World Preview Guide.

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Planchette

25 October 2007

Talking boards are best known under the popularized name Ouija boards, but are a tradition going back at least to the mid-1800s, and possibly thousands of years before that. Spiritualists used them to contact the dearly departed, but since the 1960s their primary use has been by wise-ass high school boys trying to scare the knickers off high school girls, or by writers using a popular culture shortcut to getting their evil phantasms on stage.

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