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Flotsam I've acquired over the years-- including, but not limited to, old photographs, vintage knitting patterns, paint chips, and found objects.

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Colonial newspaper, The Natal Advertiser, December 2, 1908, Durban, [South Africa].

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Colonial newspaper, The Natal Advertiser, December 2, 1908, Durban, [South Africa].

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Colonial newspaper, The Natal Advertiser, December 2, 1908, Durban, [South Africa]. The Natal Advertiser promoting itself as ‘bright, racy, readable, up-to-day, fearless and independent.’

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Colonial newspaper, The Natal Advertiser, December 2, 1908, Durban, [South Africa].

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Advertising for Crawford’s Scotch in the Illustrated London News, December 1936

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Advertising for Egyptian travel in the Illustrated London News, December 19, 1936.

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VD Claptrap, a comic book on sexually transmitted diseases by Sol Gordon and Roger Conant, 1972.

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VD Claptrap, a comic book on sexually transmitted diseases by Sol Gordon and Roger Conant, 1972.

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VD Claptrap, a comic book on sexually transmitted diseases by Sol Gordon and Roger Conant, 1972.

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VD Claptrap, a comic book on sexually transmitted diseases by Sol Gordon and Roger Conant, 1972. 

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Educational comic book, Protect Yourself from Becoming an Unwanted Parent by Sol Gordon and Roger Conant, 1975.

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Educational comic book, Protect Yourself from Becoming an Unwanted Parent by Sol Gordon and Roger Conant, 1975.

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Educational comic book, Protect Yourself from Becoming an Unwanted Parent by Sol Gordon and Roger Conant, 1975.

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Photographic postcard, young woman in costume, circa 1890s.

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Postcard, Vista of the U.S. Capitol through Cherry Blossoms, Washington, D.C., 1931.

VOTE!

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Postcard, Otsego Hall, Fenimore Cooper’s Home, Cooperstown, New York, undated.  Personal commentary-- Cooper took what was a brilliant example of Federal-style architecture and gummed it all up with Gothic.  I’m as big a fan of Gothic as the next person, but he couldn’t leave well enough alone.

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Postcard, McColley Motor Court, Spearfish, South Dakota, July 1952.