#ephemera

#ephemera

Antique throwaway items like restaurant matchbooks can rekindle the flame of long-forgotten businesses and their proprietors, shedding light on the hidden side of San Francisco history.

Anyone who's donned protective glasses and spent hours camped outside with eyes toward the sky knows the strange, life-changing experience of witnessing a solar eclipse. The lunar equivalents are intriguing, too, and have fascinated people around the world for millennia. A new archive collects maps, illustrations, and newspaper clippings documenting this alluring phenomenon from 1654 to the present day. Eclipse Atlas is a veritable trove, particularly the section cataloging ephemera from across the globe.