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25th March 2018, 11:43 AM #1
Interesting bit of historical ephemera
I bought some saw tools a while back and this was part of the package.
I've redacted the name and address to protect the confidentiality of the owner or heirs.
This is a relic of the CCC, a Depression era US government program to keep men idled by lack of opportunity employed in socially useful projects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civili...ervation_CorpsInnovations are those useful things that, by dint of chance, manage to survive the stupidity and destructive tendencies inherent in human nature.
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25th March 2018, 03:45 PM #2GOLD MEMBER
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It is interesting what comes out to surprise us sometime. I found a hand written diary from the 1890's sitting on a pile of rubbish that was going to land fill and always wondered why someone would just throw it out. It went back to the town he lived in and is now part of their historical collection.
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One man's trash certainly is another man's treasure. Almost all of collecting seems to run that way.
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17th May 2018, 06:19 AM #5
Had a similar find myself at the tip, back in the days when you could poke around a bit. I was initially taken by the cover, but inside was poetry, sketches, lots of cartoons, theatre tickets etc, first date was 1770 and then various entries through the 1800's. Finished with some modern scribble and torn out pages. Couldn't leave it for landfill could I? Don't know what to do with it but.
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17th May 2018, 09:52 AM #6
Australian State Libraries are usually interested in this sort of stuff. And they have the knowledge to conserve it better too.
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SWK
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