#found ephemera

[sarahvansloten]

Decimals and Denominators (2024), photographs of found objects (ongoing series)

#ThingsDroppedByYoungChildren

[thetwilightroadtonightfall]

quick late night doodle of lil red guys voiced by Kobayashi Chiaki :)

[postcard-from-the-past]

Students of the "La Ruche" school - founded on anarchist principles in 1904 - in Rambouillet, Yveline region of France

French vintage postcard

[conservethis]

Today’s INCREDIBLE find in the ephemera collection is this 1963 pamphlet published by the State of Arizona’s office of employment

Poor Yul Brynner wouldn’t be able to get a job in AZ it seems…nor a pair of beatniks

[celestite-caroline]

turbo goes to warframe and then dies the end

[planet4546b]

went antiquing over the weekend and found a really neat and perfect for signoise like little folder full of what was obviously high school english assignments and poetry and ads for the school plays and the guy tried to sell it to me for 50 dollars five zero fifty. FIFTY for random loose leaf paper with school work on it from like the 1970s i’m actually so mad about it. i wanted that poetry.

[brookbee]

Vintage David Bowie posters, c. 1978

[memorycavities]

entrance to the big room

carlsbad caverns national park

new mexico

ellis-sawyer color photo

[sarahvansloten]

Two hands (2024), digital photograph of found objects (ongoing project)

#ThingsDroppedByYoungChildren

[littlefleamart]

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[postcard-from-the-past]

Garden of the "La Ruche" school in Rambouillet, founded on anarchist principles in 1904, Yveline region of France

French vintage postcard

[rustbeltjessie]

Things I found while packing:

Two things from 1992: 1. A diary entry which reads Dear Diary, Today was a good day. We learned about robots. 2. A Clinton/Gore postcard.

A short story from approx. 1996 or 1997? Yes, I titled it after a line from a Weezer song. It's very John Hughes, except in this one the Duckie-esque character is a girl, and is based off me, and she gets the guy in the end. (So I guess it's more like Some Kind of Wonderful, in that regard.) I'm not going to share the rest of it because...it's bad.

[lostdeviantartcollages]

Desert Mavericks Tip-In 2A

[beary-good-finds]

♒ Vintage Aquarius sticker ♒

[oldphemera]

Found this matchbook with this ad. The design is VERY old - note the USSR teddy bear stamp - even if Father Frost is in red instead of the more typical blue for some reason, that's Soviet. But it's been updated much more recently, and the company advertising 500 junk stamps to "get your collection started" is still very much around and they don't charge that much more than they did whenever this matchbook was printed.

I think with the long decline in smoking that the long arc of free matchbooks everywhere (and ads on those matchbooks to pay for them) has also declined away to nothing. But maybe that's just me. Are people still giving away matchbooks, somewhere?

[bioabsurdity]

forgotten photos of people i do not know, pt. 3. found in berkeley, california.