Tagged “ephemera”
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A Selection of Los Alamos Rolodex Business Cards
A curated collection of old Rolodex business cards from Los Alamos, offered by the Center for Land Use Interpretation as…
Alcoholics Anonymous Comic Strips 1968-1974
A complete, page-by-page set of the earnest Alcoholics Anonymous comic strips published from 1968 to 1974, a strange and…
Annie Atkins
Graphic designer Annie Atkins shows the paper props she makes for films like The Grand Budapest Hotel: invented letters,…
Busy Beaver Button Museum
An online museum archiving thousands of pinback buttons, from political slogans and punk bands to pop culture, browsable…
Cinematica
A blog of vintage things from quieter times, mostly silent films, plus ephemera and housewares, for anyone who dreams of…
Collection of Things
Soo's scanned collection of exhibition maps, gallery prints, tickets and leaflets gathered from museums and cities acros…
Condiment Packet Archive
A visual archive of condiment packets, from fast-food ketchup to takeout soy sauce, cataloging the small design details…
COVID-19 Signage Archive
A crowdsourced archive of physical signs and messaging from the pandemic worldwide, browsable by map and tag, with rando…
DIGITIZE.TEXTFILES.COM
Jason Scott's archive of scanned paper ephemera: vintage toy and computer catalogs, manuals, flyers and brochures, prese…
f0und0bjects.blogspot.com
Music
Found Objects
Music critic Simon Reynolds' hauntological dumping ground: scraps of pop culture, old ads, clippings and curios from the…
Internet K-Hole
A scrolling archive of forgotten images from the internet and pop culture's past, gathered into numbered dumps of odd ad…
letterology.blogspot.com
Art & Design
Letterology
A long-running typography blog about hand lettering, typefaces, old books and printed ephemera, with posts on figures li…
Margaret Huber
Artist Margaret Huber's quirky site of visual diaries, collected train tickets, crochet objects and a character called U…
Onceposted
A growing archive of vintage postcards, mostly British and European from the 1900s to the 1960s, where you can flip each…
Oracles: Artists' Calling Cards
An online book from Edition Patrick Frey collecting the calling cards artists have designed over the past century, each…
Order Up
A visual tour of midcentury North American restaurant placemats, with colorful maps, jokes and food illustrations from t…
People's Graphic Design Archive
A crowd-sourced virtual archive of graphic design history built by everyone, collecting posters, zines, signage and ephe…
perfect for roquefort cheese
A prolific eclectic scrapbook blog posting daily finds - old film posters, odd architecture, vintage ephemera and curiou…
S.E.C.R.E.T.
An archive devoted to classifying and preserving security envelope patterns, the tiny printed textures inside envelopes,…
Susie Cards
A collector's site cataloguing postcards from the US and abroad, stamps shown on postcards, playing cards and a stamp su…
The man who collects lost pet posters
A feature on punk drummer Don Bolles and his one-of-a-kind collection of lost pet posters, and what these handmade pleas…
Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua
A University of Iowa digital collection on the circuit Chautauqua movement of the early 1900s, with thousands of talent…
Tristan Davey's Punch Card Archive
A small archive of punch cards and related computing ephemera from the 1930s to the 1980s, catalogued with scans and not…
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