Christmas Card List

This was inside an old recipe box. Instead of recipes it was a record of a woman’s daily affairs from the 1930s and early 1940s. It was mostly addresses but also included some of her expenses, rules for card games, a few diagrams of electric circuits and a long list of books she wanted to … Continued

In This Land of Sun and Fun

This item was stuck inside a children’s book which was mixed in with other books donated to us at the Prison Book Project (a non-profit cooperative that mails donated books to inmates in the US). I presumed it was something brought home from summer camp & was made useful as a bookmark.

Backwards Card

This is one of those backwards (opens on the left) cards that kids make. I found it in the spring of 2003 in the children’s picture book section. I like how it does double duty as a Valentine and a conversational note.

Valentine

I found this note and thought it was absolutely hilarious. I thought I’d pass it on to you.

Drinking and Playing Cards

I found this old Polaroid in a coal miner’s house in the Bull’s Head section of Scranton. I’m not old enough to date the photo, but I’d guess 1950′s. There were other pictures with it, but this is the one I kept.

Best Skating Friend

This was found left behind at the local skating rink. Tyler seems to be one of the “referees” who police the open skate.

Cardinal Knot Hole Gang

A couple years ago, while painting the inside of a closet in her home, my mom’s brush ran into something stuck between the slats in the closet wall… she pulled out a child’s wallet from the 1940′s belonging to a boy named Ken Bock or Ken Bouk. I did some digging early on to try … Continued