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Sheet Music Lenses 

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Sheet Music from the 1920s

One can find a large variety of sheet music for songs that were popular during the 1920s. The decade is referred to as The Roaring Twenties, Jazz Age, Dry Decade and the Flapper Generation. Some chose to listen to the music on a Victrola or Grapha...

The Paper Moon

I never feel a thing is real When I'm away from you Out of your embrace The world's a temporary parking place A bubble for a minute You smile, the bubble has a rainbow in it Say, it's only a paper moon Sailing over a cardboard sea But it wouldn't b...

Favorite Old Time Song Lyrics

Here are some lyrics to great old time songs the ole folks used to listen to when they'd sing-a-long. When I sang karaoke songs at local nursing homes, some of the ole folks would sing along with me to old time tunes they knew like, "Down By the Rive...

Vintage Sheet Music

A BRIEF HISTORY OF SHEET MUSIC People have always loved music. It is said that almost anywhere one goes in the world, there will be somebody playing some kind of rhythm and tune, even if it is just hitting two sticks together! In the early 1900s, p...

Magazine Advertising 

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Absolut Vodka Ads

Absolut Vodka published the first Absolut Ad in the now-famous and well known format in 1980. This format survived for over 25 years and produced 1000's of memorable images utilizing the shape of Absolut's famous bottle in consistently clever and eye...

Santa Claus in Advertising

Through out the decades Santa Claus has been used by many companies to advertise their products. This lens will introduce you to some vintage advertising using illustrations of the Jolly Old Elf. Santa has helped sell everything from Coca-Cola to g...

Vintage Magazine Ads - The Nostalgic Factor

Come stroll with me on a journey into the past using vintage magazine ads to bring back memories of your youth. Old advertising from magazines reminds people of their youth and silly jingles that went along with the products. A simpler time and happ...

Hollywood Celebrities in Vintage Advertising

During the Golden Age of Hollywood the movie stars were under contract with a particular movie studio and were required to do all sorts of things to help promote the studio and the films they starred in. The top 5 studios during this era were MGM, P...

Collecting Santa Fe Railroad Memorabilia

Collecting Santa Fe Railroad memorabilia can be a fun hobby to get into. First let's find out a little history of the railway system. Originally chartered in 1859 as the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in the state of Kansas. The first tr...

More Magazine Advertisement Lenses 

Collecting and selling vintage magazine advertisements

I stumbled across the world of vintage magazine advertisements about a year ago in an antique mall just down the road from me. While strolling through the antique mall wasting time I found a booth which was populated with probably 500 or so Life maga...

Quaker State Vintage Advertising

Collecting gas and oil memorabilia has become a huge market in the last couple of decades. One rather difficult company to find items for is the old Quaker State advertising. I find that remarkable since the company has been around for about 150 year...

Vintage Beer Advertisement Captions

Back in the late 1940s and early 1950s the United States Brewers Foundation did a series of advertisements promoting Beer called "Home Life In America". The beer advertisements were illustrated by some rather famous and now collectible artists. The a...

Cigarette Cards 

Cigarette Cards

Cigarette cards are trade cards issued by tobacco manufacturers to stiffen cigarette packaging and advertise cigarette brands. History Beginning in 1875, cards depicting actresses, baseball players, Indian chiefs, and boxers were issued by the Al...

Postcards 

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Vintage Christmas Postcards

I love my collection of beautiful vintage christmas postcards. If you've been dreaming of starting your own collection, take a look here first.  You'll find everything you need to get started collecting vintage postcards, including price gui...

Vintage Valentine's Day Postcards

Are you interested in collecting vintage Valentine's Day Postcards? Vintage Valentine's Day Postcards are beautiful reminders of love from long ago.  Collecting them is a hobby of mine. The Victorian artwork is outstanding and they make lovely dec...

A Guide to Curt Teich Postcards

A beginner's guide to antique and vintage postcards from the popular Curt Teich Company. The company was most famous for its vibrantly colored linen cards showing town views and advertising. Mint examples now fetch high prices at auction, though many...

Vintage Postcard Passion: Collector Topics

Collecting vintage postcards has become a popular hobby. Who wouldn't treasure such beautiful miniature pieces of art? A vintage postcard collector's dream would be to own and display a bounty of artistic vintage postcard masterpieces, each crafted w...

Vintage Leap Year Postcards

I'm a DELTIOLOGIST, that is, an antique-postcard collector. I just love the amazing artwork on what I call "The Pretties". Art that has stayed vibrant and colorful due to the old printing and lithography methods. I like that there were postcards...

Additional Postcard Topics 

Vintage Halloween Postcards

Do you collect vintage Halloween postcards?  Are you interested in getting started?  Here at Vintage Halloween Postcards, you will find, Halloween postcard collecting tips, Halloween postcard blog news, Halloween postcards for sal...

About General Ephemera 

Ephemera - written and printed matter published with a short intended lifetime

A modern day hobby, ephemera as a term formerly referred to short-lived insects.  It was later extended to apply to the minor printed documents of everyday life (tickets, handbills, labels, advertising material, etc) produced specifically f...

Everything Vintage!

vin·tage adj.   Of or relating to a vintage. Characterized by excellence, maturity, and enduring appeal; classic.

Vintage Graphics & Antique Clip Art

The vintage graphics on old-time photos, retro greeting cards, sheet music, antique advertising, and other paper items add a warm and nostalgic feeling to crafts and hand made gifts.The vintage clip art, photos and drawings you find in old magazines...

Magazine Cover Art and Illustration Art 

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Top 10 Jessie Wilcox Smith Illustrations

One of my all time favorite illustrators of children is Jessie Wilcox Smith. Her illustrations were found in magazines and books for children during the late 19th century and early 20th century. Smith was an American artist who began her career work...

Magazine Cover Art by John Falter

John Philip Falter, an artist from Nebraska, is best known for his 25 year relationship with the magazine The Saturday Evening Post. Falter produced over 120 covers for the popular magazine starting in 1943 with his rendition of Benjamin Franklin. Hi...

Bessie Pease Gutmann

Bessie Pease Gutmann is still beloved by many for her precious artwork of children and illustrations for childrens books. Her career spanned almost 50 years with over 600 art prints credited to her by the time she retired in 1947. Gutmann's most pop...

Lenses about Magazines 

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African Beads From Recycled Magazines

Women in Uganda lead a challenging life. Some were widowed by conflicts in the north of the country. Many look after children as well. See how they have taken old magazines and turned them into a beautiful product: paper beads. Not only is the sale o...

Collecting Vintage Movie Magazines

There's something about carefully flipping through old movie magazines - the dungy smell, the fragility of the paper, the crazy advertisements, the pedestal on which classic movies stars were placed upon - a bygone age that can be seen on b...

Collecting Vintage Wrestling Magazines

Magazines are very popular among wrestling fans. For some, it is the only wrestling memorabilia they collect. Though they are true collector's items, magazines as far back as the 1980's can be purchased for little more, and sometimes less, than the o...

Doc Savage - Pulp Magazine Hero

This lens is dedicated to Doc Savage. If you remember pulp magazines...then you're probably very old. Ouch! Ok, I wasn't around when the pulp magazines actually came out, 1930's and 40's, but I was around when they came out in later editions in the 1...

Autograph Lenses 

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Introducing Investing in memorabilia

Similar to a souvenir, memorabilia (from Latin, for memorable) is an object that is treasured for its memories; however, unlike souvenirs, memorabilia are valued for a connection to a historical, sporting event, culture, entertainment. Such items in...

Autograph Collecting - Old Hollywood

It's odd to think as a 12-year-old that many of my favorite actors and actresses had already passed away. There was no way to get Judy Garland to ever sign a photo for me. Clark Gable had been dead for years. I began a mission to write to stars and r...

Collecting the Autographs and Work of Cartoonists

The autographs and drawings of cartoonists are nice additions to an autograph collection. All of us can relate to cartoons. Saturday mornings in front of the TV are fond memories for most baby boomers. Many of us turn to the comic strips before we re...

Collecting Celebrity Signed Checks

It looks like the end is near for the bank check. It probably will not be long before checks will seem old, which means that many people, who once took them for granted and tossed them in the trash, will take a second look at them. Because of the co...

Posters and Programs Lenses 

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Collecting Professional Wrestling Posters and Programs

Wrestling memorabilia collectors are always searching for posters and programs. Both event posters and programs were extremely limited in number at their printing. Event posters were used to promote wrestling cards - sometimes they were the only mea...

Nike Posters & Ads

Everyone remembers at least one classic Nike advertisement campaign or slogan and most people can think of several. Collecting Nike posters and vitage ads is a great way for shoe & sneaker enthusiasts to document the history and evolution of Nike sne...

Catalog Lenses 

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THE HISTORY OF MAIL ORDER CATALOGS

Catalog: The Illustrated History of Mail Order Shopping makes a great holiday gift for fans of pop culture, Americana and mail order shopping. This fun book uses catalogs as snapshots from American history and discovers how we dressed, decorated our...

Craft Ephemera Lenses 

Sewing, Needlework, Patterns and the like

History of Sewing Patterns

According to my research sewing patterns have been available to the public since 1863. I would like to share a little history with you about the Companies who made the sewing patterns. I'll also show some samples of vintage sewing patterns and gi...

Vintage Home Arts - Crochet & Knitting Patterns and Cookbooks

I love all the home arts; sewing, cooking, making a house a home! I especially love learning about how our mothers and grandmothers learned homemaking skills and created things. I started a collection of vintage crochet and knitting patterns, and als...

Ephemera Artwork 

Illustration Art Collecting

Welcome to the world of Illustration Art Collecting. An illustrator is a graphic artist who creates a picture or illustration for book covers, or pages in a book. In decades of the past the illustrator was also used to illustrate greeting cards, maga...

The Artistry and Storytelling of Nick Bantock

Nick Bantock is a storyteller and artist, best-known for his Griffin & Sabine series.  His books contain lush collages of ephemera that help illustrate the story and transport the reader. His latest book, WINDFLOWER, is a stunning tale of...

Wall Street and Stock Market Collectibles 

BullMarketGifts - Vintage Wall Street Memorabilia and Stock Market Collectibles

Sitting at the bottom of many file cabinets and dusty chests of drawers may lay a little treasure for the unsuspecting. While your portfolio may have dwindled during the latest bear market, your old stock certificates may be worth more than the origi...

Dealer Promotion Lenses 

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Arts Northwest Collectibles and Ephemera

Choose from an ever changing selection of unique collectibles and ephemera from Old Seattle Estates. Arts Northwest is a highly respected dealer in old Hollywood photos and ephemera, vintage gifts, RPPC post cards, collectible books and magazines and...