Dreamers Rise

German postage stamps, 1923. The highest denomination here: 20,000,000,000 marks. (That one must have been for Special Delivery.) The first ...

I was already finding the repetitive images in these stamps a little disturbing even before I figured out what they were. The topography in ...

Below are some examples of notgeld (emergency money), issued c.1918-1922 by a number of German cities and other public and private entities...

These images -- I believe they're chromolithographs, but don't quote me on it -- are souvenir or advertising cards commemorating the...

The remarkable properties of everyday products, from 19th-century advertising cards.