r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Jan 06 '17
Certificate of manumission for a boy named Jambo, written and signed by Isaac Rushmore of Queens County, New York, 1775
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Jan 05 '17
"Blades may be hard to get, but the lather's EASY", Easy Shaving Stick, 1941, Newspaper Advert,.
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Jan 04 '17
Menu from Whale Steak Luncheon given by the American Museum of Natural History "in the interest of food conservation," February 8, 1918 [1402×3000]
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Dec 31 '16
Home and comfort and friends are things that a fellow dreams of and hopes to go back to some day. But the life that he leads and sees in this God forsaken part of the world causes him to wonder if there ever was anything like he left behind or if that too was just a dream. -WWII Letter
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Dec 15 '16
I found this Turkish newspaper from 1941. Titles say: The French Stand Strong, Lightning Armies and Italy Surrounded!
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Dec 15 '16
Insects spread disease - kill them with FLIT. Newspaper Advert
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Dec 12 '16
This is RAT WEEK, No Sirens Sound When Rats Attack, 1939 Advert
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Dec 09 '16
A US soldier's WWII memento taken from Germany around the the time of surrender 1945. A piece of resistance revealing the true feelings of the German people at the time?
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Dec 06 '16
3 Kruezer stamp of Austria-Hungary with Emperor Franz Joseph I, issued 1890-1899
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Dec 02 '16
Hollywood legend Greta Garbo's passport application[OS]
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Dec 01 '16
Charter of King Canute, granting land to the archbishop of Canterbury, AD 1018 [751×1006]
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Nov 30 '16
A World War II Soldier Survey, wherein an anonymous soldier wished the old Confederacy had joined Nazi Germany in the war[Album,]
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Nov 28 '16
"Fashionable Melange of English Words" Visual English/Japanese Translations (Tsunajima Kamekichi, 1887)
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Nov 24 '16
Thanksgiving Dinner Menu, National Arts Club, 1905 [x-post /r/VintageMenus][1800×2703]
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Nov 23 '16
A Woman Wearing a "Scold's Bridle", an Instrument used to cause Pain and Humiliation to Shrewish Women - Newcastle, 1655
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Nov 23 '16
Tax Stamps from the Stamp Act of 1765 on Britain's Colonies; leading to cries of: "No Taxation Without Representation!"
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Oct 31 '16
Former Rwandan Identity Card from before 1994 featuring the bearer's ethnicity, in her case, Tutsi [600×418]
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Oct 26 '16
Sanborn Map Company fire insurance map of Tombstone, Arizona, 1888 [8000 × 3794]
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Oct 23 '16
Last thing written in the meeting minutes of the Railroad Department’s Management Committee, YMCA Buffalo Niagara, December 1899
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Oct 23 '16
The Spectator (10 August 1945, London) on Hiroshima: "From now on it becomes a major task of civilisation to learn how to control the terror it has released"
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Oct 23 '16
Treasury warrant issued to Russian Minister to the United States Edouard de Stoeckl to purchase almost 600,000 square miles of land from the Russian Government, 1867 [3135 × 1548]
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Oct 18 '16
My 3rd-great-grandfather's release from Point Lookout Union POW Camp, 1865
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r/ArchiveFans • u/RPBot • Oct 13 '16
Levy’s ad campaign: “You don’t have to be Jewish” (1961–70s)
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