Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"Good work, sister: we never figured you could do a man-size job!" - American WW2 Poster. Packer, 1944. 130
Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 18/09/2026How Nazi was Germany still immediately following the war?🧵 All information taken from “Public Opinion in Semisovereign Germany 1949-1955” 260
Reposted by Vintage BookkeeperThe Blackletter Archive @blackletterarchive.bsky.social · 05/09/2026A young mother describes her determination to build a large, happy family despite financial limitations. She shares how she and her husband save money, live simply, and make do with what they have. By Erika Lingner, October, 1933 substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comEverything for My ChildrenFrom the Life of a Young Mother, By Erika Lingner, October, 1933. Translation by The Blackletter Archive. 011
Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 05/09/2026St. Thomas Satanic Exorcism plus All The Fried Chicken You Can Eat for .50c 1942 1140
Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Maybe one of you can explain this to me I can’t fathom having any politicians name or political stance on a shirt outside of right before election time, if you go to the store, you’re bound to see one almost every time 101
Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 30/06/2026"Caribou Attacked by Wolverine on a Fire-Screen" Lives of Game Animals, Volume 3. 1927. Written and illustrated by Ernest Thompson Seton. 120
Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 26/06/2026"You just put your lips together and blow" What a romantic scene 060
Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Robert Savage, former Yale Football star, opens his veins and kills himself because he could not gain the attention of film starlet Clara Bow. About the suicide, Bow says: “Men do not commit suicide by slashing their wrists, they use pistols.” Her countenance was cold and undisturbed. 060
Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 18/06/2026A banner announcing the opening of Great Dog Butchery, a canine butchery in Paris, France, 1910 260
Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Sorry Timmy, you didn't use Johnson & Johnson products to treat that cut so we had to CUT YOUR ARM OFF 090
Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Miss Correct Posture winners, Chicago Chiropractic Convention, May 1956. Contestants were typically judged on beauty and poise, posture, and x-rays to evaluate their spinal structure 0110
Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 13/06/2026In this 1950s ad, tacos are being described as "Mexican Sandwiches " 1110
Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 10/06/2026After Adolf Hitler, a leader of a small extremist political party in Germany, was released from prison in 1924, the New York Times reported he would most likely retire to private life and return to Austria 1152
Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 10/06/2026The Ku Klux Klan gifts a radio to a 107 year old former slave and his wife for Christmas, to show that "The Klan believes in white supremacy and segregation. The Klan also believes in treating Negroes fairly and honestly" 1948 161
Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Did not have the #WhiteSox broadcast mentioning Doris Day on my bingo card 030
Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Article quoting John Harvey Kellogg (the brother of the cereal magnate WK Kellogg) making a prediction about what babies will look like in 2012. 171
Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 05/06/2026The sleepy desert town of Las Vegas, Nevada is seeing an unprecedented volume of tourism as up to five cars per day pass through the city now, and sometimes a bus. The population of Las Vegas is only 2,400, and they have no clue how they will accommodate so many visitors. 1926 2340
Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Stegosaur, who lived in Utah ages ago, is a freak of nature 1912 2230
Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 02/06/2026The University of Notre Dame, Indiana, conducts a poll of 662 male students, asking one question: “Would you marry a girl who drinks?” University officials are alarmed that 357 respondents (53.9%) are willing to have a girl who has let alcohol louch her lips. 1926 1201
Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 02/06/2026The Daily Sentinel predicts that by the year 2000 the average woman will be 6 foot tall 1950 1151
Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 29/05/2026A kid in 1948 seeing a TV for the very first time 0302
Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 29/05/2026People gather to watch a horse diving act in Pueblo, Colorado. 1905. Horse diving was a big hit in the 19th century, featuring horses (sometimes with a rider) leaping from towers into water pools from as high as 60 feet 1242
Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 27/05/2026A cartoon about a hypothetical "pocket telephone“ 1919 1364
Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Judy Garland and George Murphy doing a variation of the Bellamy salute during the pledge of allegiance, 1940 It was done away with in 1942 for...obvious reasons 2202
Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Thought #booksky may enjoy this greeting card from the 1920s 1281
Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 23/05/2026In 1936, the "dog sack" was invented to keep cars clean while traveling with pets 4231
Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Hot idea! Drink hot Dr Pepper with a slice of lime 1969 3211
Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 22/05/2026"How to tell Japanese from Chinese" 1941 270
Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Desirable traits in women - socially and eugenically. 1939. 1101
Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Rascal contemplating mischief C 1900, Ontario, Canada 1121
Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 20/05/2026I will say that I do prefer Bluesky over X in terms of functionality, but I will say that one thing X has as opposed to Bluesky is the ability to filter your home feed by category (so politics, sports, etc.) I would probably spend more time on here if my whole home page wasn't doomer political shit 360
Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 19/05/2026DOES THE BICYCLE MAKE WOMEN CRUEL? 1897 2224
Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Girls can't resist this 'Kiss Me Necktie' as it GLOWS in the DARK! 1945 1191
Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Gilbert's U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory Children's Set, Supplied with Real Radioactive Materials, 1950s 1356
Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Teenagers' marriage criteria from Progressive Farmer, October, 1955 1181
Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 12/05/2026In 1914, Life magazine drew what they thought people would be wearing in the 1950s 4405
Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Men used to be sober, chivalrous and strong. Now, in the year 1622, they are ruined forever. 0324
Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 10/05/2026HEFTY GIRLS WANTED FOR POLICE FORCE (must be fairly good looking). London Metropolitan Police, 1930s 2539
Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 07/05/2026The Pickle Sisters, a vaudeville group in the 1920s 45711
Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Electricity was new once. These signs were mostly in hotel rooms and other public places. 0494
Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 01/05/2026An incredibly popular wine brand in the 1800s was “Vin Mariani” Pope Leo XIII LOVED it and appeared in a couple of advertisements for the brand, and Thomas Edison credited it for allowing him to stay up and work late into the night The wine contained 6mg of cocaine per fl oz of wine 1362
Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 28/04/2026In the early 1920s, Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall secretly leased federal oil reserves to private companies without competitive bidding. In return, he accepted what were basically bribes, “loans” worth hundreds of thousands of dollars Humans have always been greedy 1243
Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 27/04/2026"Am I Blue" Hoagy Carmichael with Lauren Bacall, 1944 From the movie "To Have and Have Not" 2588
Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Not that I need it But picked this up at a local book sale Written and printed in 1955 #booksky 3383
Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Your darn tootin’ my dad smokes a Marlboro 1950 5266