Tattered and Lost EPHEMERA

I never owned a Schwinn until I was in college. My first bike was a blue and white Huffy with training wheels. I imagine it was what was for sale at the base exchange. I did love that bike and s...

http://tatteredandlostephemera.blogspot.com/2017/07/get-schwinn-in-1964.html

I ate a lot of cereal as a kid. I was partial to Cheerios, Sugar Smacks, Rice Krispies, and Sugar Pops. I was partial to sugar. It's a wonder I could function. I do remember in the 50s being o...

http://tatteredandlostephemera.blogspot.com/2017/07/get-enough-sugar-for-breakfast.html

A little piece of paper can be far more important than originally thought. Someone's life might be ruined by what is written on the paper. A piece of evidence in a murder case? Believe me, it's ...

http://tatteredandlostephemera.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-boarding-pass.html

Here are a few calorie free guilt free valentines from my collection. A mechanical card in which the girls arm holding the large valentine moves up and down. Another mechanical ca...

http://tatteredandlostephemera.blogspot.com/2016/02/valentines.html

So, how do you take the medicine if you don't have a mouth? Isn't it odd? What would possess the folks who put this pamphlet together to leave off this young ladies mouth? > "Blanche is seve...

http://tatteredandlostephemera.blogspot.com/2016/01/how-to-stop-complaining.html

We used to be a lot smarter before search engines came along. Now too many of us are sort of mentally lazy. Why bother to remember details when the answers are always at your fingertips? Well,...

http://tatteredandlostephemera.blogspot.com/2016/01/answer-these-questions-without-using.html

If you don't know about Mr. Roberts from my other site you might enjoy going there and doing a search in the search field. Here is a link to one photo of him with a lovely lady in Yosemite Valle...

http://tatteredandlostephemera.blogspot.com/2015/12/a-christmas-card-from-1930s.html

This vintage handmade post card is from my Scottish maternal grandmother's collection. It is possible it was done by a relative because many of them were artists. Unfortunately it doesn't have a...

http://tatteredandlostephemera.blogspot.com/2015/12/marleys-ghost.html

Most likely 64 years ago tonight there was a PTA party in the county of Marin, California. I provide you with the handmade invitation from Montez Lawton's scrapbook. So why can I narrow this d...

http://tatteredandlostephemera.blogspot.com/2015/12/come-on-to-pta-party.html

Another card from Montez Lawton's scrapbook. This is quite small, handmade using construction paper and what appears to be a photo and text cut from a magazine. There is no signature. Perhaps it...

http://tatteredandlostephemera.blogspot.com/2015/12/a-tiny-handmade-christmas-card-for.html

Bill was, I believe, Montez Lawton's husband; I can't be sure. There are several cards in the scrapbook signed by Bill, though there are more from her mom and dad. I especially like Bill's sig...

http://tatteredandlostephemera.blogspot.com/2015/12/from-bill-to-montez-at-christmas.html

Another card from Montez Lawton's scrapbook; a Hallmark card from 1947. I don't think I've ever seen this logo before. Apparently until 1954 the company was known as Hall Brothers, Inc. A brief ...

http://tatteredandlostephemera.blogspot.com/2015/12/a-santa-for-montez-lawton-in-1947.html

The following images are, like yesterday, from a book entitled Christmas: A Book of Stories Old and New published by Charles Scribner's Sons. The illustrator is Hildegard Woodward . These are ...

http://tatteredandlostephemera.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-following-images-are-like-yesterday.html

The following images are from a book entitled Christmas: A Book of Stories Old and New published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1937. Well, actually I'm not sure when it was published because the...

http://tatteredandlostephemera.blogspot.com/2015/12/christmas-with-hildegard-woodward-and.html

I'm a doll lover/collector from childhood. Eventually I realized there just wasn't going to be enough room for me to continue down this path. That didn't mean I couldn't still collect dolls, I'd...

http://tatteredandlostephemera.blogspot.com/2015/12/tattered-and-lost-forgotten-dolls.html

The theme for Sepia Saturday this week was almost too easy for me: vintage advertising paper dolls. I have many in my collection. The following are all from the Lion Coffee "Children's Dolls Wi...

http://tatteredandlostephemera.blogspot.com/2015/10/vintage-lion-coffee-paper-dolls.html

A few months ago I was contacted by a person who works behind the scenes for the tv show American Pickers. She was interested in using an image I'd posted on August 16, 2012. The show with the i...

http://tatteredandlostephemera.blogspot.com/2015/09/a-few-months-ago-i-was-contacted-by.html

THIS IS AN UPDATE TO A POST DONE ON JULY 9, 2009 . In October of 2014 I received an interesting comment from a reader. The fella has now followed up with a fascinating post of his dangerous voyag...

http://tatteredandlostephemera.blogspot.com/2015/04/this-is-update-to-post-done-on-july-9.html

I've mentioned in the past that years ago I was up very late one night, searching around ebay, blindly clicking from page to page. Ebay can be such a bad place in the middle of the night, especi...

http://tatteredandlostephemera.blogspot.com/2015/02/little-klaus-paper-doll.html

I thought this Sepia Saturday I'd just fill your Valentine's mailbox with lots of cards, all from my collection. Many of them have been posted in the past on this blog, but most of you probably...

http://tatteredandlostephemera.blogspot.com/2015/02/i-thought-this-sepia-saturday-id-just.html

I've posted this photo at my other blog, but thought that ephemera collectors, especially those who collect paper dolls would enjoy seeing it. What makes this snapshot unusual is that the little...

http://tatteredandlostephemera.blogspot.com/2014/06/which-paper-doll-is-this.html

Would you like to put a Mercury in your driveway? If so, it'll have to be a used car. So if we're talking used how about a 1954 Mercury? I would certainly love to drive one of these in order t...

http://tatteredandlostephemera.blogspot.com/2014/05/lets-buy-new-car_2.html

Time to go car shopping. Yeah, just the words "go car shopping" feels like fingernails on a blackboard. Have you ever been followed across a car lot by an obnoxious salesman who is yelling at yo...

http://tatteredandlostephemera.blogspot.com/2014/05/lets-buy-new-car.html

In the last post I mentioned that one of the characters on one of the book covers looked very much like a friend's husband. I sent her a jpg and she and her daughter were dumbstruck. I am sendin...

http://tatteredandlostephemera.blogspot.com/2014/04/more-cowboy-illustrations.html

I've never been a fan of Louis L'Amour books, but my father has a big stack of them given to him by the wife of a deceased friend. I think over the years dad has probably read all of them, but h...

http://tatteredandlostephemera.blogspot.com/2014/04/cowboy-illustrations.html