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If you are a techie, check out the Modern Practice of the Electric Telegraph, an accurate transcription of an 1870s era book on telegraphy (the original serial interface).
If you are a history buff, try the Life of William B. Ide, one account of how California came to be a part of the United States. Again, this book is more than 100 years old.
You will also find a 1904 home medical book, Medicology. This is a big-ass book with 1400 pages full of century old medical knowledge. Read about a world where communicable diseases like Cholera and Typhoid Fever raged, where diabetes was a death sentence, and where mercury was used for almost anything, even as a laxative. No, I'm not kidding.
We recently discovered a scrap-book collection of matchbook covers from the 1930's. Smoking is not as pervasive as it once was, and places that give away matches are not as common. But back then, matches were high-end advertising, and a lot of effort was put into attention grabbing graphic design. And, you might be surprised at some of the places that gave away matches. Check it out.
I am a Vietnam veteran. While I was in Vietnam, I had a tape recorder, and recorded the sounds of being there. Some of it is AFVN, the radio station run for the troops there. Helicopters doing practice strafing runs. Some of it is from before I was in the army, and one area is a site created by someone else to memorialize the base where I was stationed.
After I left the army, all of the pictures I had taken and most other keepsakes were lost to a turbulent family situation. I lost the tape recorder and lots of other stuff, but I never lost the reel to reel tapes that I brought back, and a few years ago I finally decided to transcribe these tapes. The sounds from them are now the embodiment of my memories of Vietnam.
I am most proud of the collection of music recordings featuring Mike Ward, me, and various other soldiers wandering in and out of my room. This was downtime, often after a shift, and usually involved alcohol. That these recordings are listenable at all is a testament to one person, Mike, a passion fueled Cajun. This is all dedicated to him.