Thoughts that were duct taped to my cerebrum

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Today i made yet another amazing online discovery. the Library of Congress has a website, and in one place on their site you can search through extensive archives of WPA posters. (WPA = Works Progress Administration, in case you didn’t know.)

This is the address for the WPA poster search engine thing: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/wpaposquery.html

In the process of trying to find an archive just like the one above, i ran into a blog called “Found in Mom’s Basement” which is basically completely dedicated to vintage advertising. i didn’t dig very deep before i kept going but here’s the address for WPA poster entry: http://pzrservices.typepad.com/vintageadvertising/2007/05/wpa_posters_194.html

you can find your way around the site from there if you’re interested. besides the WPA page, there’s things like “Got Milk” ads, and you can also search by decade. i daresay it is pretty sweet looking. i’m bookmarking that page!

anyway, also today i was wondering where the term “keyed up” came from. i could probably find out with a little effort, but i’m feeling lazy so i guess i’ll never know [:

Alicia <3

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