Ephemera Digitization & Preservation

"Pounding Corn"

An article found in the "Africa Report" published in 1985. The article is about two African women laboring in Africa and how they use their resources in agriculture to prepare food. The article describes the domestic responsibilities these women take…

Vintage Champion Spark Plug Advertisement

A vintage print advertisement promoting Champion Spark Plugs, featuring a four-engine propeller airliner, a spark plug illustration, and an orange automobile. The ad claims that most airlines specify Champion Spark Plugs due to their dependability.…

General Electric Automatic Dishwasher Advertisement

A 1958 magazine advertisement promoting the General Electric automatic dishwasher. The ad contrasts the labor of handwashing dishes with the convenience of GE’s new appliance, using illustrated scenes of dishwashing and a modern kitchen photograph.…

"Information Tests to Try on Your Children"

An article found in one publication of “The Parents’ Magazine”, published in February 1931. The article is about a series of tests that parents can use to determine if their children are properly developing according to their age. These assessments…

Black Southerner Magazine, Vol. 1 No. 2

This artifact is a vintage issue of Black Southerner Magazine, priced at $1.50 and published during a period that celebrated the cultural life of Southern Black communities. The cover highlights marching band culture, featuring band members and a…

Lablache Face Powder Advertisement

This is an advertisement for Lablache Face Powder, a Ben Levy Company product, a French perfumery from Boston, Massachusetts, produced in the early 20th century. The ad is decorated with floral borders and a woman's profile portrait; it projects…

"Science shows why Old Dutch Cleaner costs less to use"

The back of a farmer’s wife magazine that contains an advertisement. The advertisement is about cleaning powder which uses evidence from a microscope to explain why their product is better. It has a yellowish look of old paper. It is very similar to…

Drinking Gourds

The drinking gourd is typically made from the dried shell of a calabash or bottle gourd plant. After hollowing and drying, the gourd becomes a lightweight, durable vessel used for drinking water, palm wine, milk, and other beverages. In many regions,…

Model Airplane Instruction

A formal instruction guide on how to make a model toy airplane from scratch with step-by-step examples

-ID: The first photo shows a kid about to throw the toy plane he just made using the template provided. The second photo shows a visual…

"Consider your Adam's Apple" Lucky Strike Ad

A small pack of cigarettes that makes it safer to consume in your throat than other tobacco products. Lucky Strike exposes ultraviolet rays that expels certain harsh irritants that is shown in all raw tobacco products. Lucky Strike is a U.S.…

La Sac Next Exit

A collage of images of a Man and a Women in a car. The women has no eyes, the man is chasing the women beside the car. Underneath a poem says “Reminding us all the while that when driving down the highway with a friend who says he wants to get off at…

A Self-Lathering Brush: The Latest and the Greatest Shaving Aid

Full page featuring an ad. The advertisement is about a self-lathering brush in the weekly newspaper. Published at the end of WWI.

Identifier: Three circular images at the top of the page demonstrate the three steps of using the brush. Step one…

An Interview With Mr. and Mrs. Strangelove

A hand-drawn vintage comic, featuring panels about a heterosexual couple being interviewed as though their sexuality is unusual, akin to how queer couples are ridiculed typically. The comic uses exaggerated expressions and satirical dialogue to…

The Greatest Bonus (Good) for our veterans is a STEADY JOB

A Magazine ad promoting a good bonus for veterans is a steady job. This is right after WW1 and is from the American Legion Employment Bureau which is pro veterans since it started from them post WW1. The ad is pushing the idea of a steady job being…

Send No Money!

Full-page ad for the Oliver No. 9 typewriter with the title "Send No Money" Published in the April 7, 1922, issue of The American Legion Weekly, a post-World War I magazine distributed to American veterans. Offering a five-day free trial, an…

America Listens In

This is an article that was written in 1941, a time where the U.S. had joined in the battle of World War II, the title reading "America Listens IN", indicating recording of European Radio Program, revealing propaganda in Germany. This article is only…

Tillie Lewis and the Rise of Industrial Food Innovation

Holding a miniature model of one of her 1935 tomato-processing kettles, Tillie Lewis posed in front of the original in 1975.The size of her early food-processing business is seen in the big copper kettle behind her, which is set against the backdrop…

"Ah well, thank goodness we still have our sense of humour" (1952)

3 Stranded astronauts on an alien planet, it also shows a space ship crashed on a planet. The picture also shows an astronaut saying "ah well, thank goodness we still have our sense of humor. This image is also about the astronauts discovering a new…