Going Postal

Despite enjoying the look of stamps, I’ve avoided becoming a philatelist for the same reason I’ve avoided getting too into record collecting: I really…

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February 2026

Poetic Justice

The Justice Gazette was first published in 1909 in Istanbul to document various legal news and statistics (things like judicial inspector reports…

Feb 27 • Elizabeth Goodspeed

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January 2026

One Small Step for Advertising

About twice a year my local library has a book sale, which is put on by a group of chatty octogenarians (plus one sprightly fifty year old who accepts…

Jan 20 • Elizabeth Goodspeed

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November 2025

All Aboard!

I first learned about Tyco Toys from a YouTube video on the history of Lego. Tyco Super Blocks were one of their competitors in the ’80s and the ads…

Nov 12, 2025 • Vedad Siljak

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September 2025

Kindred Spirits

The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift was a short-lived British youth movement founded in 1920 by John Hargrave, a Utopian polymath described as an “author…

Sep 10, 2025 • Elizabeth Goodspeed

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August 2025

Order Up

Like so many past ephemera finds I’ve shared here, I bought these midcentury North American restaurant placemats at Brimfield Flea this July from a…

Aug 11, 2025 • Elizabeth Goodspeed

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July 2025

Full Spectrum

Sinclair Programs was a short-lived magazine published between 1982 and 1985 for users of Sinclair Research’s line of home computers.

Jul 25, 2025 • Elizabeth Goodspeed

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Understood the Assignat

This fall, I spent several afternoons exploring the archives of the Museum of Living History in the suburbs of Paris, searching for typographic…

Jul 9, 2025 • Polina Godz

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And Also With You

While missionaries had been traveling to China for over a century by the time Christian propaganda posters like these first appeared (the first…

Jul 1, 2025 • Elizabeth Goodspeed

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February 2025

Tickets Please

As an avid music fan and devoted admirer of typography and graphic design, I began making Tickets Please in March 2023 after walking by a concert hall…

Feb 4, 2025 • Elizabeth Goodspeed

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January 2025

Itadakimasu

I’m a big fan of Letterform Archive in San Francisco, so when I saw their announcement about a newly donated collection of chopstick sleeves, I knew I…

Jan 22, 2025 • Elizabeth Goodspeed

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December 2024

A Stitch in Time

There was a set of these Works Progress Administration (WPA) posters hanging in my childhood home, but they somehow never registered as “ephemera” to me…

Dec 31, 2024 • Elizabeth Goodspeed

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