Tea Anyone

Used tea bag, left beside the portrait of George Harvey.

Found in "The Mirrors of Washington" by Anonymous. Published by Putnams, 1921.

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Do You Have The Time

Leonard brand wrist watch face.

Found in "A New Pronouncing Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages" published by Wilcox and Follett, 1945.

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Bad Order

Two repair records from the Delaware and Hudson railroad, ca. 1920s.

Found in "Railroad Reorganization" by Stuart Daggett. Published by Harvard University Press, 1908.

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Nostalgia, Part 35

Original PlayStation game "Kileak: The DNA Imperative."

Found in "Give Yourself Goosebumps #4: The Deadly Experiments of Dr. EEk" by R.L. Stine. Published by Scholastic, 1996.

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Park It

Page from a AAA safety coloring book, dated 1947.

Found in "Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi. Published by Random House, 1946


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Nostalgia, Part 23

Panel from a plastic Nintendo Entertainment System game sleeve.

Found in "Sweet Valley Twins #1: Best Friends" by Francine Pascal. Published by Bantam-Skylark, 1987.


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Assurance

Life insurance contract from the Equitable Life Assurance Society, dated June 29th, 1889.

Found in "Backgrounds of Literature" edited by Hamilton Wright Mabie. Published by The Outlook Company, 1903.

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Altered Beast

An unusual find today. Ten moths, dried and pressed, each individually wrapped in cellophane. If that were not unusual enough, the moths appear to have been altered. If you take a close look at their bodies, a small piece of colored paper has been trimmed to fit and mounted over the original.

Found in "The Hermit of Moss Pond" by James Pitcher. Published by the author, 1896.

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Of Mice and Pearls

Drinks coaster with mother of pearl top.


Found in "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck. Published by Covici-Friede, 1937.

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Another Nail In My Heart

One rusty nail.

Found in "Steps in the Expansion of Our Territory" by Oscar P. Austin. Published by D. Appleton and Co., 1903

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Hello Dolly

Doll dress.

Found in "The Mysterious Image: A Nancy Drew Mystery" by Carolyn Keene. Published by Wanderer Books, 1984.

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Reunited

Handwritten registry of deaths of the Potts family.

Found in "The Life of our Blessed Lord and Savior Jesus Christ" by the Rev. John Fleetwood. Published by Phillips, Sampson and Co., 1850.

I found this sheet over the weekend, and did my best at some internet sleuthing. After several hours, I was able to find a descendant of the Potts family that lives locally and successfully delivered it back home.


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Good Ship

Shirley Temple paper doll.

Found in "Savage Messiah" by H.S.  Ede. Published by The Literary Guild, 1931.

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Welcome Home Wally

First day postal cover featuring astronaut Wally Schirra of Project Mercury.

Found in "The Use of Artificial Satellites for Geodesy" edited by G. Veis. Published by North-Holland Publishing, 1963.

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Multitasking

Receipt from J. Stuerwald, Dealer in Furniture and Undertaker, Dated March 23, 1885.

Found in "Scribner's Popular History of the United States" - no title page.

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Good Morning

Tag from the Pyrex 6 Cup Crystal Percolator.

Found in "The Gauntlet" by James Street. Published by Doubleday, Doran, 1945.

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Contract

Teacher's contract, signed and dated May 13, 1940.

Found in "Miss Buncle's Book" by D.E. Stevenson. Published by Farrar and Rinehart, no date.

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War Training

Certificate from Union College certifying completion of the Mathematics Applied to Radio Communication 1 program.

Found in "The Adams Family" by James Truslow Adams. Published by The Literary Guild, 1930.

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Patterns

Handwritten knitting pattern (or so I am told).

Found in "The Wanderers" by Peter Parley. Published by D. Appleton, 1855.

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All Stars

Schedule (with some scores) from the 1928-1929 Converse High School basketball season.

Found in "Virginia Beautiful" by Wallace Nutting. Published by Old America Co., 1930.

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