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Ephemeral Artifacts

Jesse Walker | 12.31.2002 12:46 PM

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The Library of Congress has amassed a rather amazing collection of "printed ephemera," from broadsides and leaflets to ads and even timetables. A substantial selection of these can now be viewed online, as part of the library's excellent American Memory website.

[Via Mediageek.]

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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