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Vintage Bookkeeper

@vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social
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25 year old stuck in 1949. I post about the past, collect vintage books and watch vintage films, with a particular interest in the 1940s.

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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.
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
How Nazi was Germany still immediately following the war?🧵 All information taken from “Public Opinion in Semisovereign Germany 1949-1955”
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The Blackletter Archive @blackletterarchive.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A 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-...
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Everything for My Children
From the Life of a Young Mother, By Erika Lingner, October, 1933. Translation by The Blackletter Archive.
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
St. Thomas Satanic Exorcism plus All The Fried Chicken You Can Eat for .50c 1942
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Maybe 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
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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.
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
"You just put your lips together and blow" What a romantic scene
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Robert 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.
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Man looking for a wife in 1865.
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
A banner announcing the opening of Great Dog Butchery, a canine butchery in Paris, France, 1910
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Sorry Timmy, you didn't use Johnson & Johnson products to treat that cut so we had to CUT YOUR ARM OFF
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
1957
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Gay Boy Tobacco, 1890
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Miss 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
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
In this 1950s ad, tacos are being described as "Mexican Sandwiches "
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Teens out of control circa 1900
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
After 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
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The 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
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Did not have the #WhiteSox broadcast mentioning Doris Day on my bingo card
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Article quoting John Harvey Kellogg (the brother of the cereal magnate WK Kellogg) making a prediction about what babies will look like in 2012.
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
The 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
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Stegosaur, who lived in Utah ages ago, is a freak of nature 1912
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The 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
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The Daily Sentinel predicts that by the year 2000 the average woman will be 6 foot tall 1950
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
A kid in 1948 seeing a TV for the very first time
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
People 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
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
A cartoon about a hypothetical "pocket telephone“ 1919
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Judy 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
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Thought #booksky may enjoy this greeting card from the 1920s
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
In 1936, the "dog sack" was invented to keep cars clean while traveling with pets
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Hot idea! Drink hot Dr Pepper with a slice of lime 1969
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
"How to tell Japanese from Chinese" 1941
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Desirable traits in women - socially and eugenically. 1939.
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Rascal contemplating mischief C 1900, Ontario, Canada
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I 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
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
DOES THE BICYCLE MAKE WOMEN CRUEL? 1897
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Girls can't resist this 'Kiss Me Necktie' as it GLOWS in the DARK! 1945
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Gilbert's U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory Children's Set, Supplied with Real Radioactive Materials, 1950s
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Teenagers' marriage criteria from Progressive Farmer, October, 1955
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
In 1914, Life magazine drew what they thought people would be wearing in the 1950s
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Men used to be sober, chivalrous and strong. Now, in the year 1622, they are ruined forever.
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Japanese Hunting License, 1941
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
HEFTY GIRLS WANTED FOR POLICE FORCE (must be fairly good looking). London Metropolitan Police, 1930s
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The Pickle Sisters, a vaudeville group in the 1920s
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Electricity was new once. These signs were mostly in hotel rooms and other public places.
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
An 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
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
In 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
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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"
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Not that I need it But picked this up at a local book sale Written and printed in 1955 #booksky
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Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Your darn tootin’ my dad smokes a Marlboro 1950
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