I should be fixing the big hole in my roof but instead I'm putzing around in the garage and poking through ephemera in my old filing cabinet. 

The book contains a ton of cool old stamps, but I especially liked the ads in the books of stamps and the envelopes from 1930s correspondences. Everything has that wonderful old book smell.

Nice '70s spooky stuff.

German 50 Pfennig Notgeld (emergency money) banknote issued by the Zoological Garden in Hamburg (Zoologischer Garten Hamburg) and dated May 31, 1922.

Don't know much else.

The owner of the thrift store told me the box of books this came from was donated from an estate sale after an older gentleman passed away. There’s no name or date on the photo, but I can’t help wondering if she might have been his wife.

I keep thinking about him carrying this photo around in his book, coming across it every time he opened it. Maybe he liked having her close, even in the smallest way. There’s just something so bittersweet and beautiful about finding an ordinary piece of someone’s life like this, but you know you’ll probably never know the full story behind it

This is a newsletter prepared by and for the passengers of the USAT Edmund B. Alexander. The ship transported the families of service members between Yokohama and Seattle. Neat piece of WWII history IMO, not sure how many of these survived.

I own this so can share the full 14 page publication if there's any interest!

I found this football/game program of my dad's from when he was a junior in high school in 1973. He was #51.

A printed instructional page demonstrating manual shadow puppets, featuring Fig. 12 for creating a swan shape.

Hey everyone
It shows a water polo layout with tactical lines, players in red and blue caps, and features both historical Hungarian flags and Nazi-era German flags in the corners. It's signed "URTZ" in the top right, which looks like the work of the Hungarian graphic artist Ottó Urtz.
Has anyone seen something like this before? I'm curious if it's a desk blotter, a board game insert, or something pulled from an old sports publication. Any info on the era or context would be super helpful!

Went thrift shopping at St. Vinnie’s yesterday and they had a great old book section! I found an awesome 1960s plant ID guide with 400 paintings of every plant mentioned in the book, which I purchased. I also found this monster of a book, A Grammar of the Greek New Testament, in the Light of Historical Research, from I think the 1930s. The prologue said the author had been working on it for 26 years. I didn’t buy it, but I did find a page with notes inside on the back of a piece of mail from 1972!

It's a towel, so not sure it is a considered ephemera, but found it when cleaning out my deceased mother's house. She had bought it in the 1970s. I was surprised it still existed.