jeff eaton

• Visit Soda Can Archive

You know you've always wanted to know what 7-Up looked like in The Old Days. Now you can!

• Visit New Wave Record Covers

An 80stastic collection of record covers from the New Wave era. It includes a lot of punk that I wouldn't have though to include, but if you're looking for covers of those old Clash and Bangles LPs, this is your place!

• Visit Barnacle Press

A tidy collection of turn-of-the-century comic strips, including Mickey Mouse's famous 1930s suicide attempts. (He took the breakup with Minnie pretty hard, see...)

• Visit Edwardian Photographs

Again via MetaFilter, a large private collection of Edwardian photographs. Many are portraits, complete with snazzy fashions of the day.

• Visit French Illuminated Manuscripts

A huge collection of images from middle ages manuscripts, covering topics like war, religion, and so on. Navigation is all in french, so prepare for exploratory clicking or some translation work.

• Visit Canadian Pulp Art

Seriously, do you need to know anything more? It's Canadian pulp art, complete with brave mounties. The UI for the site is also perfectly suited to the theme.

• Visit Data Junkie

This one covers a lot of ground -- PDF conversions of old pulp comics, MP3s of old-time horror and crime drama radio shows, and links to other sites that offer the same. Definitely a must-read.

• Visit Octopus Pulp

An odd little archive of book and magazine covers from pulp serial adventures. Every one, without fail, features an octopus.

• Visit The Gospel of Slavery

An 1800s anti-slavery tract, scanned in and uploaded to Flickr.

• Visit The Demoulin Brothers

This one's pretty bizarre. Tucked into an online archive of freemasonry trivia is the 1930 DeMoulin Brothers Catalog of joke and novelty items. There are... wooden goats. Exploding pie-eating tables. And so on and so forth. The strangely chivalrous language and the painstakingly rendered ink drawings of collapsing trick chairs are definitely worth admission.