Storing Paper

Paper must “breathe.” Don’t keep it in a sealed package. It will eventually become moldy.    

Fraktur: Celebrating Family and Faith

You may have seen the lettering style before but not realized that fraktur (pronounced “frock-tour”) is a form of early American folk art. German settlers who came to Pennsylvania in the 18th and 19th centuries brought this style of writing and embellished it with religious and artistic symbols to record local and family history, making […]

Other Printed Ephemera

Unusual bits of printed paper—from labels to paper napkins—are known as ephemera. There isn’t space enough to list all the old paper items that are interesting to collectors but it is worth noting that there are large, well-documented museum collections of valentines, advertising cards, baseball cards, broadsides, railroad passes, circus posters, and other paper memorabilia. […]