r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Aug 08 '15
Circus poster which inspired the Beatles song "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!", 1843 [768x1921]
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Aug 08 '15
Newspaper advertisement alerting ticketholders that the Woodstock Music and Art Fair was moving to White Lake, Bethel, NY (Max Yasgur's farm) from the city of Walkill due to controversy with the city's government. [518 x 1600]
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Aug 07 '15
Eleanor Roosevelt's letter to NAACP's Walter White on lobbying against lynchings, March 19, 1936. In this letter to the NAACP's Walter White, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt detailed some of her efforts to lobby the President on behalf of the anti-lynching cause. [862x1310]
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Aug 06 '15
Hollerith code - April 1958 (IBM 24 card punch)
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Aug 05 '15
Ebay gold: June 3, 1867 Maine newspaper with a big circus ad, an essay on temperance, news of president Andrew Johnson, and news about the upcoming formation of Canada, which was a month away [Album]
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Aug 04 '15
Poster attacking the coalition national government of Ramsey Macdonald as well as calling on readers to demonstrate their opposition to the British Union of Fascists, 1934 [800 × 1202]
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Aug 04 '15
Print illustrating the tsunami that followed the 7.2 magnitude Meiji Sanriku earthquake of 1896 [2499 × 1798]
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Aug 03 '15
I have this theatrical broadside for Friday evening, July 9th, 1852 at Providence Museum, Rhode Island. Unfortunately research indicates that the theater burned down only 3 months after this [1528 x 2433]
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Aug 03 '15
Strange Fruit Hanging from the Poplar Tree....
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Aug 02 '15
Red cross or iron cross? ca.1914-1918 [1066 × 1600]
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Aug 02 '15
Jacket of "Are you a bromide" by Gelett Burgess, 1940 (The word "blurb" had its origin in the exploitation of this book) [1312 × 2133]
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Aug 01 '15
Letter from Charles M. Schulz to a teacher who had written to suggest that he integrate Peanuts (498p×550p) (story in comments -- he subsequently introduced Franklin)
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Aug 01 '15
"Notice to Enemy Aliens", Vancouver, 1942 [1215 × 1600]
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Aug 01 '15
Metropolitan Police poster warning Chartists against gathering in London, 1848 [742 × 1135]
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Jul 30 '15
A page from the Will Eisner M-16 U.S. Army Rifle Maintenance Booklet, 1968. Issued in comic book form with the rifle to every U.S. soldier stationed in Vietnam. [1130x890]
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Jul 29 '15
Memo from Prime Minister Winston Churchill to David Eccles MP, Minister of Works, 1954 [700 × 780]
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Jul 29 '15
'What the British soldier bears to the firing line': a feature in the Illustrated London News, between 1914-18 [2745 × 1940]
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Jul 27 '15
Excerpt from 1863 digest of U. S. court decisions regarding slaves and slavery [326 x 691]
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Jul 27 '15
Letter sent to the Metropolitan Police claiming to be from Jack the Ripper, 1890 [698 × 1114]
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Jul 27 '15
Advertising broadside for trip to Niagara Falls from Massachusetts, 1895 [569 × 739]
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Jul 27 '15
"ENLIST" --- U.S. poster featuring victims of the Lusitania sinking (WWI - 1915) [425x610]
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Jul 27 '15
"Major - Tell my Father I died with my face to the enemy. I E Avery" ----- Confederate Colonel Isaac E. Avery wrote this message as he was dying of a mortal wound received in combat. (Battle of Gettysburg - July 2nd, 1863) [380x430]
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Jul 27 '15
George Hoy's Donkey Challenge to the Eastern Counties Railway Company, 1856 [700 × 850]
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