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Paper Dan @paperdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A cabinet card from a large photo album I won at auction last week. Can you imagine how much harder it was to take care of that hair in the 1800s‽ It would be massive work today! #ephemera #oldphotographs

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Paper Dan @paperdan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

He's not even six months old. He's gonna be a behemoth! #Cat #Kittens #BlackCats

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Paper Dan @paperdan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I just bought a huge lot of 35mm slides. I bought them for the America's Cup photos but there was a bonus set of about 25 pics from this set. Your pic reminded me of them for some reason.

A woman with strawberry blond hair, wearing a short, green jacket, white cap, black underwear, garter belt and sheer hose with black stiletto heels holds a painter's palette while daubing at it with a brush. She has one leg up on the vase of an easel that holds an unidentified painting in a classical style.

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Paper Dan @paperdan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

On the way to pick him up. "We need a name." Think for a minute... "How about Moonshadow? We can shorten it to 'Mooooooon'." "How about just Moo?" "Cool, but we have to spell it M-U." "Okay!" Meet Mu (pronounced Mooooo, like a cow). He's very pleased to meet you. #Cat #Cats #CatsofBlueSky

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Paper Dan @paperdan.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

@catsofyore.bsky.social A 2"x2" antique photo of someone who wants ALL the cats! I have it displayed in the corner of the frame of my 3D kitten art.

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Paper Dan @paperdan.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Look what popped up in my potted tomato plant. #Mushroom #Fungi #VolunteerFlora

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Paper Dan @paperdan.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

This tree completely surrounded.... #Mushroom #Fungi

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Paper Dan @paperdan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

#Bloomscrolling Buttonbush inflorescence. Central, Massachusetts.

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Paper Dan @paperdan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Had the same compulsion yesterday, except on Massachusetts backroads.

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Paper Dan @paperdan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

#ShareAnAlbumCover 5: that is red In the Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson

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Paper Dan @paperdan.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Seventeen years of unconditional love. Nearly a third of my life. The memory of that love will help fill this massive Harley shaped hole in my life. He was my best friend, my brother, and today I said goodbye.

My best friend Harley, a Maine Coon cat, sits in an octagonal window, with a crescent moon decor piece attached to the top. He is looking at the viewer.

He is spectacular.

He is only a few years old at the time of this photo. Today, July 2, 2026, he left the world at the age of at least 18. I am a better person for having him in my life.

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Paper Dan @paperdan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

#ShareAnAlbumCover Pink Floyd - Ummagumma I believe this is the only album that had the members photos on it.

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Paper Dan @paperdan.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Fungi under fern. Douglas State Forest, Douglas, MA. #MushroomMonday

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Paper Dan @paperdan.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Looks a lot like my Harley. He's around 18 years old and, unfortunately, will be leaving us soon.

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Paper Dan @paperdan.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Fifty-five years ago, with their finger on the jugular of America. #MadMagazine

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Paper Dan @paperdan.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

#ephemera #countrymusic There's a show I'd like to have seen except I wouldn't be born for another month and a half. My mom still could have taken me, though. From the October, 1964 CMA Close-Up newsletter.

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Paper Dan @paperdan.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

A first printing of A. Conan Doyle's "Hound of the Baskervilles" The 'tell' is the third line of the 13th page which has 'you' instead of "your". #AntiqueBooks #FirstEditions #Books #SherlockHolmes

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Paper Dan @paperdan.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

These are from the front page January 1, 2000 Boston Globe. Little did we know.....

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Paper Dan @paperdan.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Some vintage stickers and patches for Canadian vintage racing events & organizations. #ephemera #autoracing #vintageracing #Canadianracing #Motorsports

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Paper Dan @paperdan.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I have some stuff from a Canadian vintage racing club in the '80s or '90s. I also have a really cool photo album from that same lot that I picked up. Here's a few of the pics from it.

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Paper Dan @paperdan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

From the front page of the January 1, 2000 Boston Globe. We were so naive...

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Paper Dan @paperdan.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This is the only way I have to share things with you. I thought you'd get a kick out of this.

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Paper Dan @paperdan.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I'm not sure how else to share pictures with you, so here is the first of two images from negatives I recently acquire.

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Paper Dan @paperdan.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I have a large lot of original 35mm slides showing concert pics from the 1970s. I've identified a few of the artists but many still elude me. This fellow with the distinctive Gibson Firebird is one of them. Slide is dated Aug '75. Hoping that one of my few followers might be able to help me out.

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Paper Dan @paperdan.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

My best friend for 16 years, Harley.

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Paper Dan @paperdan.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

There's "Red" and then there's "Sumac in Winter Red".

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Paper Dan @paperdan.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I have pet an incredible number of cats in my life. Never before have I felt fur as soft as Willa's belly fluff. It's mesmerizingly compelling to me, even when she just wants to sleep.

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Paper Dan @paperdan.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

One of my favorite pieces of whimsical #ephemera, acquired from the estate of Kenny Roberts, is this handmade (and hand-edited) poster for a music festival in central MA, probably in the late 70s or early 80s. #CountryMusic #BluegrassMusic #Massachusetts

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Paper Dan @paperdan.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

A vintage sales piece for the American Marchetti S-55. I don't know the date....yet. #Avgeek #Aviation

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Paper Dan @paperdan.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

This is Harley. He's about 17 years old. We've been together for more than 16 of them. He's pulled me through some dark times by the simple method of loving and needing me. He's my best friend and I never want to disappoint him.

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Paper Dan @paperdan.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

You probably have this one but just in case you don't...

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Paper Dan @paperdan.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

In our "The More Things Change..." department, I found this in "Rollicking Rhymes of Old and New Times" by N.W. Bingham, illustrated by J.A. Jameson. It was published in 1906. (sigh) Same old same old....

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Paper Dan @paperdan.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

A study in shades of brown & white (and hint of blue).

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Paper Dan @paperdan.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

An oil painting of my feline life-partner Harley. A birthday present from my girlfriend. My 61st, Harley's 17th. He's been with me for 16+ of those years. I don't know his actual birthday, just that it was in the fall so I made it simple.

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Paper Dan @paperdan.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Like so much of my ephemera, I can't remember where I got this WWI German POW letter, but I'm glad I did. #WWI #POW #Ephemera

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Paper Dan @paperdan.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

This is an early 20th century poster from the Japan Paper Company, an importer of fine papers from around the world. I've been able to find very little information about this piece, but I do know it has a high coolness factor!

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Paper Dan @paperdan.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Summer homes. Chocksett Rd. Sterling, MA. 04-19-2025. #DansDayOutdoors

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Paper Dan @paperdan.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Happy Place #32. Private property. Ashby, MA. 04-18-2025 #DansDayOutdoors

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Paper Dan @paperdan.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Two old friends. I've been visiting this Eastern White Pine & Shagbark Hickory on a friend's farm for over 20 years now. I can't explain why their continued existence and growth is comforting to me, but it is. Everything is ephemeral but some things really take their time with it.

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Paper Dan @paperdan.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Shaggiest of barks. Private property. Ashby, MA. 04-17-2025 #DansDayOutdoors

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Paper Dan @paperdan.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Living on the edge. Lancaster Town Forest. Lancaster, MA. 04-16-2025 #DansDayOutdoors

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