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Cultural Ephemera

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Fleeting images plucked from the winds of time. Context not always provided. No AI.

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Cultural Ephemera @culturalephemera.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
#vintagead #b&w #ephemera
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Cultural Ephemera @culturalephemera.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
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Cultural Ephemera @culturalephemera.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
#palmtrees #retro3d #90s #vhs #ephemera
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Cultural Ephemera @culturalephemera.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
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Cultural Ephemera @culturalephemera.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Computer Gaming World cover by Tim Finkas (1981) #magazine #cover #1980s #dragon #art
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Cultural Ephemera @culturalephemera.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
#antoniolopez #fashionillustration #60s
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Cultural Ephemera @culturalephemera.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
#posture
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VHS Vault @vhsvault.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Sponsor Appreciation Promo PBS/WEAO 49 1997-02-12 : 4s
Screenshot from VHS tape, video frame at 4 seconds.
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Cultural Ephemera @culturalephemera.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
#librarybook #stamps #1970s #ephemera
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Cultural Ephemera @culturalephemera.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
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Cultural Ephemera @culturalephemera.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
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Cultural Ephemera @culturalephemera.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
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Cultural Ephemera @culturalephemera.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
#kaiju #honey #nut #cheerios #ephemera
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Cultural Ephemera @culturalephemera.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
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Cultural Ephemera @culturalephemera.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
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Golden Age Explosions 💥 @comicexplosions.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
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Cultural Ephemera @culturalephemera.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
OMNI Future Almanac (1982)
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Cultural Ephemera @culturalephemera.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Sputnik Magazine, 1968
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Cultural Ephemera @culturalephemera.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
#ussr #1960s #holiday #sovietunion #ephemera
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Cultural Ephemera @culturalephemera.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
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Cultural Ephemera @culturalephemera.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
#1920s #pose #maleform #b&w #vintagephoto #vintagemagazine
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
The letter "A" from the Libellus Novus Elemntorum Latinorum, a 17th-century alphabet of organic type. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/a… twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/…
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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 11/02/2026
I wrote a tribute for BYTE Magazine's amazing cover artist, Robert Tinney, who died Feb 1st Tinney painted 80 vivid and surreal covers illustrating various concepts in early personal computing from 1978-1990, usually airbrushed with gouache. May he RIP ❤️ arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...
A trio of Robert Tinney illustrated magazine covers: Floppy Disk, Software Piracy, Smalltalk Balloon
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Cultural Ephemera @culturalephemera.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Robert Tinney, 1979 #byte #magazinecover #art #computing
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Cultural Ephemera @culturalephemera.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Byte, April 1979 Cover art by Robert Tinney #byte #roberttinney #magazinecover #ephemera
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Cultural Ephemera @culturalephemera.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Got a lot of notifications on this post and just realized it is because he passed away earlier this month. RIP Robert Tinney.
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Cultural Ephemera @culturalephemera.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Robert Tinney
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Cultural Ephemera @culturalephemera.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
#barbie #magazinecover #80s
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Cultural Ephemera @culturalephemera.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
#sheetmusic #1920s
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Cultural Ephemera @culturalephemera.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
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Old UK Print Ads 70s/80s/90s @oldukprintads7890s.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Oct 1974: Philips Full-Colour Video Cassette Recorder ad from Sound & Vision «Escape from the dictatorship of T.V. timetables...»
Advertisement for a Philips Full-Colour Video Cassette Recorder, with features such as off-air, parallel, and blind recording, as well as playback. It offers a new concept in television viewing, allowing viewers to record and watch programmes at their leisure, freeing them from TV timetables. The advertisement includes a map showing the location of the vendor.

Escape from the dictatorship of T.V. timetables...

with the revolutionary new
VIDEO CASSETTE RECORDER
We present a
completely new
concept in
television viewing. Now you
can view as you please. Tape
any programme you like from your own TV set,
whether you're at home or not,or even if you're watching
another channel. Then play it back whenever you please on
your own set.
OFF-AIR
RECORDING
Record a programme
directly as you watch an
actual broadcast.
PARALLEL
RECORDING
Enjoy a programme on one
channel while VCR
records from another.
BLIND
RECORDING
Record a programme
without watching it-VCR
does it for you
automatically when
you're out.
PLAYBACK
See your recordings again
and again-at the times
that suit you and the
family.
See this revolutionary concept at
89, NEWPORT STREET, BOLTON.
The Proffitt Family Company Tel:26 32541
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
I don’t know where this is from. I know that it’s a tile made with a medieval illustration. #Caturday
Medieval illustration of a cat king holding a sceptre and wearing a crown, with three other cats bowing before it on grassy landscape.
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Cultural Ephemera @culturalephemera.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
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Cultural Ephemera @culturalephemera.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
1947 American Girl magazine. #b&w #vintagephoto #glasses #book
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Cultural Ephemera @culturalephemera.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
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Cultural Ephemera @culturalephemera.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
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Cultural Ephemera @culturalephemera.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
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Cultural Ephemera @culturalephemera.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
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Cultural Ephemera @culturalephemera.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
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Cultural Ephemera @culturalephemera.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Photo from a glass negative in my collection. No documented date/info.
Black-and-white photo of a light skinned young woman sitting up in a chair. She is looking down at a short haired, white and gray cat. She’s also holding out one finger as if playfully teasing the cat with it.
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 21/05/2025
Happy Wednesday
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Cultural Ephemera @culturalephemera.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
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Cultural Ephemera @culturalephemera.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Heavy Metal Magazine, 1979 #harmonica #coverart
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
JAZZ MUST GO
Jazz Must Go

Is American dancing hellward? Is jazz madness driving us to ruin?

These questions are asked not by prudes, but by seriously thinking people who are concerned for the future of our boys and girls.

Present-day indecencies of dress, of talk, of manners must stop! Jazz must stop! We must get Back to Pre-War Morals.

John R. McMahon has written a series of articles that every mother and every father should read. They show the evil at its worst and point a remedy.

In the same issue begins Zane Grey's great new serial story -- The Call of the Canon.

Just two of more than fifty features in the 172-page November issue of

The Ladies Home Journal

--Washington Evening Star, 4 Nov 1921
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Cultural Ephemera @culturalephemera.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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Cultural Ephemera @culturalephemera.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Picnic, 1964 #b&w #photo #1960s
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Cultural Ephemera @culturalephemera.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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Cultural Ephemera @culturalephemera.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
USSR Magazine, 1961 #plannedeconomy #ussr
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