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Untitled 17 Jul 2013 | 07:14 pm
I've run several items lately regarding messages in bottles. The folks at New York magazine have apparently been noticing all the bottle-borne messages in the news as well, because they've put togethe...
Untitled 11 Jul 2013 | 08:44 pm
Another day, another message in a bottle. I feel more of a personal connection to this one, because the bottle was found in Patchogue, Long Island, which is one town over from where I grew up. The bo...
Untitled 10 Jul 2013 | 07:01 pm
The gentleman shown above is Chuck Kunellis, who lives in Sacramento, California. The letters he's holding were sent by his father, Chris Kunellis, during World War II. The elder Kunellis sent them to...
Untitled 24 Jun 2013 | 11:25 pm
Photo courtesy of Bryn Mooth; click to enlarge Last summer, a Cincinnati food writer named Bryn Mooth was poking around in an antiques shop and spotted a bundle of old recipe cards from the 1930s, wh...
Untitled 21 Jun 2013 | 03:32 pm
Photo by Kathleen Galligan, Detroit Free Press What have we here? It's a bona fide message in a bottle! The note was written 98 years ago ago by two Detroit residents named Selina Pramstaller and Til...
Untitled 20 Jun 2013 | 07:38 am
Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register Okay, this one's a little freaky-deaky. The woman shown above is a California resident named Marion Shurtleff. She's holding a 65-year-old essay that s...
Untitled 19 Jun 2013 | 07:06 am
Photo by Angela Peterson, JSOnline; click to enlarge The documents you see above were part of a large stash of old papers, photos, and other ephemera that a Milwaukee woman named Lisa Crum found in t...
Untitled 29 May 2013 | 06:41 pm
Photos from Lost and Found: The Search for Harry and Edna The photos you see above are part of a remarkable project that is very much like Permanent Record. In fact, it's so PermaRec-ish that I can't...
Untitled 29 May 2013 | 06:41 pm
Photos from Lost and Found: The Search for Harry and Edna The photos you see above are part of a remarkable project that is very much like Permanent Record. In fact, it's so PermaRec-ish that I can't...
Untitled 9 May 2013 | 09:00 pm
The photo at top is an old hatbox filled with about 250 letters from the 1940s. Below that is a photo of one of the letters and a snapshot that was tucked inside of it. The hatbox was purchased in 19...
