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From: Sharon Sergeant <>
Subject: [GM-L] ** LOC Updates American Time Capsule
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 09:12:00 -0800 (PST)

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** LOC Updates American Time Capsule

The Library of Congress has updated its online ephemera
collection, An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of
Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera. In its first release
it contained more than 7,000 items, and an additional 3,000
items have been added. Materials include advertisements,
blank forms, programs, election tickets, and menus (!!)

The collection is available at
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/rbpehtml/pehome.html . You may
browse by author, title, genre, or geographic location or
printing, or of course you can search by keyword. A keyword
search for menu found 21 results. Results list a hyperlinked
description of the item. Click on the item and you'll get a
thumbnail (click on the thumbnail for a larger version) as
well as information about the item including publication
date, description, and notes. Now you too can get a good
idea of what restaurants charged for boiled chicken and
oysters in the 1860s.


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Sharon Sergeant
Ancestors and Ephemera
http://GenealogyFair.com
Bring Your Ancestors Home!

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