Tag Archives: America

Japanese Dolls on the Western

Japanese Dolls on the Western Toyshelf: The “Jap Doll” – Ningyô on the Western Toyshelf 1850-1940. An impressive collection with illustrations and references that suggest the place of the Japanese doll in the minds of American and European children, and … Continue reading

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Psychedelic ’60s

Psychedelic ’60s: sixties memorabilia from the University of Virginia Library. Very cool site. There were a lot of ways to get hurt in the sixties, from fire fights in Vietnam to drug overdoses in student apartments. Most of us survived, … Continue reading

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Picturing Modern America

Picturing Modern America:1880 – 1920. Among the many ways that US society became modern between 1880 and 1920 was in the production and consumption of images. With the growth of new media technologies such as photography, chromolithography, film, and newspaper … Continue reading

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Square America Snapshots

Square America Snapshots is a site dedicated to preserving and displaying vintage snapshots from the first 3/4s of the 20th Century. You must see this site, specially the The Book of Sleep and In the Booth sessions.

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France in America

France in America – La France en Amèrique. Books, maps, prints, and other documents. Conceived in partnership with France’s national library, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, France in America /France en Amérique is a bilingual digital library made available by … Continue reading

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Advertising Soap in America

Ivory Project: Advertising Soap in America 1838-1998. A huge collection with 1,600 advertisements and related ephemera from 1838 till 1998 of print advertising for Ivory soap. Complementing the Ivory materials are examples of advertising, advertising cards, soap wrappers, coupons, pamphlets, … Continue reading

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Vintage images of cigarettes boxes and ads

Jim’s Burnt Offerings Cigarettes over 200 illustrated web pages on the social history of the cigarette in America. The images of the collection are very pretty but I still against cigars, cigarettes and tobacco in any way. (via we make … Continue reading

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Computer Space

Computer Space: an online exhibition about the Video Arcade. The games, their description, images of the machines and ROM Image if you want to play. Arcade games familiarized an entire generation with computers and screen-based interaction. They remain an object … Continue reading

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America’s Library

America’s Library: a fun way to explore the Library of Congress. The site was designed especially with young people in mind, but there are great stories for people of all ages, and we hope children and their families will want … Continue reading

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Amusing America

Amusing America is the story of participatory commercial amusements in American cities – San Francisco in particular – and how they changed the way Americans lived. From the Gilded Age of the 1880s to World War II, amusement parks, world’s … Continue reading

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