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Things Found in Old Books, season thirteen , volume 10

Things found in old books is a weekly segment where we show you curious ephemera that we’ve discovered while processing used books. This week’s Things Found in Old Books we uncover a 1955 doctor’s receipt from San Diego, a public health booklet on septic tanks and cesspools tucked inside an architecture book, and a newspaper clipping hidden in an 1892 history book. On one side is an article about the disappearing stones of the Mason-Dixon Line. On the other? A Victorian-era cartoon that reminds us how humor has changed… and how it hasn’t. We are a general used bookstore in Orange California. We opened the doors in 1990.

Things Found in Old Books, season thirteen , volume 9
Things found in old books is a weekly segment where we show you curious ephemera that we’ve discovered while processing used books. This week’s Things Found in Old Books we found 1935 postcard from a YWCA camp , a 1939 church bulletin, a mysterious photographic negative that revealed a man holding a child, and a calling card carrying one lovely message.
Sometimes the best part of an old book is what somebody forgot—or chose—to leave inside. We are a general used bookstore in Orange California. We opened the doors in 1990.

Things Found in Old Books, season thirteen , volume 8

Things found in old books is a weekly segment where we show you curious ephemera that we’ve discovered while processing used books. This week’s Things Found in Old Books features a remarkable discovery that remind us how people stayed connected long before the digital age. A home-recorded Recordio message, mailed in December 1941, still rests in its original envelope—its voice sadly lost to time. We are a general used bookstore in Orange California. We opened the doors in 1990.