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The State Historical Society of Missouri was chosen to participate in the National Digital Newspaper Program, an effort to provide online access to historically…
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President Yeltsin and President Clinton held a news conference in Hyde Park, New York in October of 1995. Click here to…
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This advertisement by Tiffany's was placed in The Cosmopolitan magazine in February of 1905. The main purpose of this ad was to inform magazine readers about…
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American Indian Movement poster, circa 1973
Called onto the Pine Ridge reservation to protect the traditionalists and full-blooded elders, American Indian Movement (AIM) leaders decried the reservation…
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This poster advertises the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. Most Americans and Western Europeans never got to see this poster. Due to the 1979 Soviet…
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While cleaning out my grandmother’s house last year I…
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This is an authentic White Star Line vintage poster created by Montague Birrel Black. This circa 1910 poster is titled White Star Line / "Olympic"…
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The Venona Project was a secret project run by the forerunner of the NSA (the U.S. Army's Signal Intelligence Service). The…
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In the late 1800's there was an explosion of advertisements for various substances produced for pharmaceutical purposes. This is a…
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This
website deals with all things Watergate, but one of the most interesting pieces is a page that shows in chronological order the Time…
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Stamps such as this one is a reminder to all of European colonialism in North Africa. The 1912 Treaty of Lausanne…
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Ten-pin bowling is a relatively recent form of recreation that can trace its history to similar games played, according to some authors, as…
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.The Coffin Handbill appeared in the Philadelphia Democratic Press, as part of the Anti-Jackson campaign material circulated by John Q. Adams’ supporters during the 1824…
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James Marshall had a work crew camped on the American River near Sacramento, California in January of 1848. The crew was building a saw mill…
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The Zephyr debuted in 1934. It was the epitome of locomotive technology at the time. The Zephyr's unique construction consisted of "shot-welded stainless steel, a…
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BBC News provides streaming of the original…
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This photograph is possibly the last known photograph taken of President Abraham Lincoln before his assassination in 1865. The Henry Warren photograph was apart of…
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During a memorial service for victims of the La Coubre explosion, Fidel Castro's cameraman, Alberto Korda, saw a glimpse of Che Guevara. For a couple…
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On November 10, 1898 in Wilmington, NC, white supremecists successfully engineered a coup d'etat against the white, Republican mayor and white and black Republican city…
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Many thank yous to Collectorsquest.com for posting this article from Modern Woman Magazine, Volume 12, No. 2, 1942. This article is a short and…
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This memo was written on May 26, 1953 by Burton R. Berry of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq. He writes to the State…
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The political campaign button dates back to George Washington when they were quite literally brass clothing buttons with a message embossed. By the time…
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This leaflet advertising Lane Bryant’s sterilized maternity outfit was published around 1910. The leaflet, found at Duke University Libraries Digital Collection, contains four pages stressing…
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"This foreign person has come to China to help in the war effort. Soldiers and civilians, one and all, should rescure, protect, and provide him…
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This non-color coloring book designed by Morrie Turner in 1987 illustrates a movement that swept the nation after the AIDS disease was first identified in…
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On
September 3, 1864 Union General Sherman sent one of the most famous telegrams of the Civil War to General…
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Barbie has become an iconic figure in American history. The first doll was created over 50 years ago by a housewife. She was using a German…
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This is an advertisement for Bell telephones. Notice the well placed cup of tea, vacuum cleaner, smile, and picture of husband. Advertisements seem so silly when…
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Following the disaster that was Hurricane Katrina's impact on the city of New Orleans it took awhile for residents to be ready…
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G.I. Joe was created in 1963 as a role model soldier for young boys. Introduced to the world 1964, G.I. Joe: "America's Movable…
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Lost in Space, Lunch Box, Thermos Corp., 1967
Irwin Allen's TV series, Lost in Space, aired on CBS from 1965 to 1968. The…
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This is the official map of Washington City (later Washington, DC) engraved in 1820 by W.I. Stone. This map appears to be an updated version…
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This website is devoted to maintaining political advertisements from both parties for presdiential elections since the television era began. Included "Daisy Girl" a Lyndon Johnson…
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Posted by Sue CarterTo the left is a diary entry written by Juri Munzer on January 27, 1936. Munzer was a young Jewish man,living in…
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This certificate of live birth was provided by the Obama campaign after accusations that President Obama was not born in the United States. Despite…
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Although the story of Santa Claus is quite old, it was the American illustrator and cartoonist Thomas Nast that created the American perception of Santa…
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This title page, taken from the curriculum Dr. Jacob Bigelow established at Harvard (ca. 1829), is often cited as the first popularization of the…
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This British Mark IX Armored Personnel Carrier was one of the first tanks used in warfare by the British. This tank weighed 27 tons…
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By the time the United States entered World War II in December 1941, the British, French, and…
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This broadside advertises an exhibition of a reproduction of Benjamin West's famous painting Death on a Pale Horse. See an image of the painting…
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This 1959-1960 Volkswagen Owner's Manuel is one of the first to be converted to .pdf format and put online. Toshiba has put many of its…
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This campaign was introduced by, then head of the U.S. Food Administration, Herbert Hoover (
History Matters). It began at the…
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Sheet music is an example of an ephemera as some music is written only for one time use or are not good enough to preserve.…
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In the late 19th and early 20th century character maps were all the rage. This map called dogs of war, produced by Johnson, Riddle and…
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Any map is a wonderful form of ephemera. Publications such as theme park maps are not meant to last after the park closes or after…
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Ascenseur pour l'échafaud, also known as Elevator to the Gallows (U.S. release), is a French film directed by Louis Malle in 1958. While…
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This advertisement shows a young boy riding on a "lead horse." It encouraged children to use the pain and not be worried about problems…
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The Banning Letter, circa 1953, was written to President Truman by Mr. William Banning whose son was killed in action during the Korean War…
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This 1891 New York Times article discusses the construction of the Congo Railway Company as described by explorer and journalist Henry Stanley. Interviewed by an…
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This is the menu for the opulent wedding reception of Maria Ewing Sherman and Thomas William Fitch, married Thursday, October 1, 1874. Maria Sherman, otherwise…
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On May 31st, 1871 the United States Congress passed an act calling for the exhibition of American and foreign arts, products, and manufactures to be…
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Beginning in 1996 the European Union began producing annual promotional materials for its annual unity celebration Europe Day. The materials tend…
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This advertisement, featured in a July, 1955 newspaper, features a product that will assist Radio Free Europe. Radio Free Europe is a U.S. funded…
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The Wright brothers sent this telegram to their father in Dayton, Ohio from Kitty Hawk, North Carolina announcing their success of achieving powered flight. The…
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This website was created by a student for a multi-genre research project dealing with Korean immigration to America. The work put together is extraordinary especially…
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This is a photograph of a rare black sand beach on the island of Hawaii taken almost 75 years ago. The…
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This postcard is from 1913 and depicts a character that is supposed to be Lloyd George holding a money box. It is a satirical…
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Kenneth Cyril Bird, or "Fougasse", was a cartoonist in Britain during WWII. He created a group of cartoons for the Ministry of Information called "Careless…
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Jesse and Frank James Lindbergh baby Kidnapping John Wilkes Booth
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Wanted posters depict…
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This is an advertisement for a chain of hotels in Europe in the 1930s. It may seem strange that there is not a picture of…
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This Remington Razor advertisement, published in many WWII era newspapers and women's magazines like Good Housekeeping, encourages women to purchase their newly returned…
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This image is from the 1936 catalog of the Robert S. Griswold Seed and Floral Company of Lincoln, Nebraska, from whom one could order not…
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Another World War I era cartoon, this also features Kaiser Wilhelm perched atop a German U-Boat, the first viable submarine used in naval warfare (there…
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"Who's been here since Ise been gone?"
This political cartoon ran in a newspaper during the late 1860s, It clearly refers to the solider,…
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During World War Two, the United States Military promoted both combat and civil defense. One great example is the aircraft spotter card, a new…
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This t-shirt is an original product of George McGovern's presidential campaign for the 1972 election. Political advertisements and propaganda can be seen in elections for…
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Posted by Sue CarterTo the left is a photo of Vogue's magazine cover from August 1940. The cover girl, Lisa Fonssagrives, would later marry famous…
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Posted by Sue CarterCharlie Brewster Ross was abducted from his home on July 1st, 1974 in Germanton, PA. His brother, Walter was also abducted. The…
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Jan. 3, 1820
This particular play starred Junius Brutus Booth a well known London born actor. Junius was named for Marcus Junius Brutus, one…
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Menus can tell us many things about our past. The best way to study menus would be to compile many menus from several restaurants…
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This is a train ticket for the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad. The railroad changed its name in 1874 to Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul…
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In the early morning, of February 3rd, 1959, a plane carrying the musicians Big Bopper, Ritchie Valens, and Buddy Holly crashed 8 miles outside Clear Lake,…
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Thomas Tuttell created this unique deck of cards in 1701 that feature the tools and trade of navigation. Each card depicts a different aspect…
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Propaganda is used to promote and guide public opinion towards a specific agenda. It is common practice for nations to utilize propaganda during wartime or…
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Here is an advertisement from 1875 trying to sell a horse hay rake. It claims that it is a new and improved rake to…
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Fala FDR’s Dog (Barkers for Britain) Fala was President Roosevelt’s much loved pet.
In 1941 a campaign began to raise much needed cash…
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From 1952 to 1955, Red Man Tobacco Co. produced a series of baseball cards cards, the only tobacco company to do so after 1920. This…
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Barclay was a famous artist before he began drawing illustrations for the Navy. He drew the famous
"Body of Fisher"…
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This poster and
many others were created in WWII. The belief was that enemy spies could use the information…
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This is a postcard created in Cortland New York in the late nineteenth century. The postcard illustrates the Gillette Skirt Company building, along with people…
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This newspaper article was one of the
most accurate accounts of the Lincoln assignation. Many…
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This anti-Apartheid propaganda poster was created in 1989 and includes quotations from the Freedom Charter, written in 1953. “Voices from the youth” expresses ideologies of…
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The image to the left depicts a Surf advertisement in the 1950s. Surf is the name of a laundry detergent made…
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The archival collection at the Hagley Museum and Library is surprisingly eclectic. The non-profit organization, founded by the DuPont corporation--at the…
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Red Channels, also known as the Hollywood blacklist, was published by Counterattack: The Newsletter of Facts to Combat Communism in 1950. It contained a list…
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With the Soviet Union's successful detonation an atomic bomb in 1949 and then hydrogen bombs in 1951 and 1953, Americans began preparing for a nuclear…
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To the left is the first page of a progam entitled "An Entertainment" put on by The Poet's Theatre.…
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This piece of ephemera is the iconic November, 1948 image of President elect Harry S. Truman in Union Station holding up a Chicago Daily Tribune…
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This particular poster is an advertisement for a hat shop in a Covered Market on Belleville Street in Paris. Markets were (and to an extent still…
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Pennies are often thought of as practically valueless. They are created for a specific purpose and their value is specifically quantified as no more than…
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"We Shall Overcome--register-vote" is an adapted poster from the Civil Rights movement. This poster was adapted and put in a textbook, America: …
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This is an 1875 marriage certificate of two prominant members from Pelham, Westchester County NY. I retrieved the certificate from a historic blog of Pelham.…
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Sperry & Hutchinson (S & H) Green Stamps were an important part of retail commerce in the mid-twentieth century. Although these shopper premiums were first…
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When thinking about baseball, the name Babe Ruth is bound to emerge. He has become one of the leading figures in the history…
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This image is of a poster showing an innocent woman and child surrounded by men with guns. This is a poster remembering all of the…
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This map is considered the map London Underground. Henry Beck was an engineering student. The…
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This Cold War era propaganda poster is an advertisement placed strategically by the United States government in rural areas warning of the negative effects…
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After the attacks on the world trade center on 9/11, the French government chose not to support the war on grounds they found perfectly acceptable. …
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The Zapruder Film may be one of the most famous pieces of historical ephemera in the world. The video was taken on November 22, 1963…
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During the 1950's the People's Republic of China engaged in a concerted effort to solidify the new political regime in part through use of a…
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Chez Panisse
Alice Waters opened Chez Panisse in 1971. Her Berkeley restaurant has become a culinary landmark.
Ms. Waters is said to…
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The film Casablanca (1942) has gained worldwide recognition as one of the greatest films of all time. Upon the movie's release, several posters…
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I feel that sporting event tickets are examples of ephemera as many times sporting events commemorate historical moments. Many people often collect their tickets…
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This is an image of the Civilian Conservation Corp clearing land for soil conservation. Due to overdevelopment, much of the soil in large part…
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Roller skating became a popular form of recreation in the Victorian Era. Like its much earlier cousin, ice skating, the wheeled form was attractive to…
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