Everyday culture
The main focus of my collection is on different everyday culture related artifacts from the 20th century. Since this is a quite broad area, here is a list of more particular topics:
Artifacts
- Optical devices and toys
- Cameras Page of the collection
- Consumer electronics
- Tape recorders
- Projectors
- Old video game consoles and computers
Examples
- Atari 2600 (1977)
- Sonesta Pong (1977)
- MBO teleball cassette (1977)
- Saba Videoplay (1977)
- Universum Color Multi-Spiel 4106 (1978)
- Commodore 64 (1983)
- Commodore 16 (1985)
- Amiga 500 (1987)
- Nintendo Game Boy (1990)
- Sega Mega Drive (1990)
- Sega Game Gear (1991)
- Philips CD-I 220 (1992)
- Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) (1992)
- Highscreen Colani Blue Note (1993)
- Dendy Junior (1993)
- Playstation (1995)
- Apple iBook G3/700 14″ (2002)
- Apple iMac 24″ -9,1 (Anfang 2009)
- Hangers Page of the collection
- Glasses
- Airplane cutlery
- Ceramic, glass and porcelain objects
- Wallpapers Page of the collection
Books and printed matter
(mainly between 1890 and 1945)
- Advisory literature (especially with regard to transported role models)
- Letter-writer’s guides Page of the collection
- Entertainment
- Health / Medicine
- Personal hygiene
- Sex education
- Memory training
- Beautiful children’s books
- Scrap books
- Photo books (especially in rotogravure printing)
- Interior decoration
- Atlases and maps
- Advertising
- Commercial art
- Typography Page of the collection
- Magazines
- Entertainment
- Fashion Page of the collection
- Architecture
- Technology
Art
- Graphic arts and prints Blog posts
Media
- Tapes
- Films (e.g. Super 8)
- Slides / Photos / Postcards
- 3D images / Viewmaster Page of the collection
My goal is not to cover any these topics even halfway complete, but to depict a (not necessarily representative) cross-section.
An (incomplete) catalog of my books is available at Librarything.