September 6, 2008
Lamp collector and dealer Dan Edminster has put together an incredible reference site on antique lamps and related … [more]
This website is a great guide to the mysteries of the Magic Lantern, forerunner of today's slide projector (well, o… [more]
Martin Howard's crisp, visually stunning collection of early vintage typewriters and related accessories like ribbo… [more]
Need some help with your vintage car repair? Check out this excellent trove of user-contributed car manual scans an… [more]
This 7,000-plus page site lives up to its self-billing as a 'knowledge base' with examples of work from all major a… [more]
Archivist Sally Jacobs' blog with tips for digitizing and preserving paper, photos, and other ephemera. While prima… [more]
This collaborative project provides a visual index of almost 2,000 antique quilts across multiple museums and colle… [more]
This photo gallery of over 7800 vintage radios, categorized by manufacturer and model number, is a group effort wit… [more]
We pretty much had to include the royals in the hall of fame... they've been collecting for over 500 years! It's t… [more]
Attention paper collectors: don't miss Malcolm Warrington's exquisitely designed tribute to Victorian scraps (stamp… [more]
This gallery of model show rods from 1960 to 2001 includes favorites like the Ã58 Thunderbird, Fireball 500, Mag… [more]
If you're into old phones, check out this 600-page repository of images and historical information. Includes an ext… [more]
This elegant tribute to turn-of-the-century bicycling includes memorabilia, photographs, and an index of 3140 bicyc… [more]
Steve Birks' super deep site is a tribute to a bygone era, chronicling how a pottery center of excellence (they did… [more]
Jens Veerbeck's homage to toaster collecting is the best thing since sliced bread (which was invented in 1933, by t… [more]
A great reference blog on collectibles and memorabilia related to Walt Disney during World War II. Disney designe… [more]
One of the most comprehensive vintage toy raygun reference sites, with lots of detailed descriptions and great phot… [more]
Ben Crane's excellent reference site on Victorian trade cards. Includes a scrapbook containing hundreds of beautifu… [more]
James Butters' fun and creative website focusing on the design of 1950s and 60s pocket transistor radios. Highlight… [more]
The staggering number of images on this site are, unbelievably, only a subset of David Levine's collection of 1920s… [more]
