Written and printed (and other recorded) matter not intended to be kept and saved. Share your advertising trade cards, airsickness bags, matchbooks, postcards, ticket stubs, old certificates - anything someone else might find interesting, enjoyable, or discussion worthy.
101K members. The best post we have captured here reached 17.9K upvotes, which works out to 177 per 1,000 members.
The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.
The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.
my grandma kept track of all the boys she dated in 1940 and wrote "my darling little soldier" as her first impression of the man she would end up mar…
my grandparents' budget from 1958
I was 8 years old when I wrote an anti-whaling letter to President Jimmy Carter. This was the reply.
Burned book page found in my yard after Los Angeles fires
My Collection of Antique Hold-To-Light Postcards
Sketchbook from 1900
I found a school atlas from 1854, and it had some drawings made by schoolchildren over 150 years ago
My Grandpappy’s last Driver’s License: Born in ‘89…That’s *1889*
Adopted Girl's Baby Book, by Birth Mother
The Contents of my Great-Grandmother's Purse
Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.
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Start free →Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/ephemera, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.