This Old Paper

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First up — this item is for sale on eBay!
This is a ‘Customer’s Record Card’ for the Grand Union Company, dated at March 27th, 1944.  The Grand Union Company was a grocery chain that was successful in the early part [...]

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On the morning of March 26, I discovered the intriguing website Forgotten Bookmarks: Found Items Left in Old Books featured on LISNews: Librarian Information and Science News. In a same day co-incidence, I found a forgotten bookmark of my own in a book I purchased at a Friends of the Library [...]

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Craving good pie?  Back in the day, the place to get absurdly high lemon meringue pie was at Lucille & Otley’s Restaurant…
This postcard features a slice of lemon meringue pie pointing high into the sky.
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I’m no longer sure I want to sell these batches of paper on eBay.  The more I do background research on these items, the more I want to find specific people or groups who would love to have them, would protect and catalogue them or use them for future research etc.
I’m trying to be an [...]

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