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A look at the history of Wisdom Magazine from Volume 1, Number 1 in 1956 and what happened with publisher Leon Gutterman after the magazine ceased publication in 1964. Partial checklist included.

Did Diamond Jim Brady really eat that much? A brief biography of the Gilded Age personality James Buchanan Brady which is a companion post to the Examiner.com coverage of the 1935 movie Diamond Jim starring Edward Arnold.

A complete reproduction of the original article “What Sank the Lusitania?” from the May 29, 1915 issue of The Scientific American magazine, May 29, 1915.

Following up on thoughts from reading Anthony Brandt’s “A Short Natural History of Nostalgia” inside the December 1978 issue of the Atlantic Monthly Magazine.

Kitsch Slapped just published the first edition of the History Is Ephemeral Carnival containing 10 blog posts from ephemera collectors and bloggers.

The story of Felice Orsini’s prison break from the March 1857 issue of Harper’s Monthly. Includes details of prison conditions and Orsini’s escape.

Paging through the March 1857 issue of Harper’s Monthly Magazine concentrating on the Current Events section with blurbs about Statehood, Slavery, and much more.

The Saturday Evening Post put out its final issue on this date in 1969. This article contains a brief history of the Post along with notes for collectors.

Henry Ford is a fun person to concentrate a magazine and/or ephemera collection around just because there is so much to collect.  Being the major figure that he was, of course, he was well-covered in all of the general magazines throughout the first half of the 20th Century, plus Ford seemed to like pulling out [...]

Welcome to my brand new site about vintage collectibles.  We’re going to talk about various trading and tobacco cards, ephemera items and old magazine back issues here with the subject matter concentrating on early film stars but not limited to them.
In fact, while many of the items offered for sale by VintageMeld.com are movie cards [...]