What do the Lord’s Prayer, a Christmas card from friends, and a boarding pass from Atlanta to Mobile, Alabama have in common? No, they don’t all belong to a holiday traveler with a fear of flying. All three items were found in books.
The POP Project recently branched out our social media efforts to Tumblr, a popular microblogging platform. Our Tumblr page showcases a variety of items found in the books donations we have received over the years.
We check every book donation we receive by flipping through the books to make sure there are no personal photos or notes left inside. Since POP began in 2009, we’ve collected a whole box of interesting and curious things tucked into book pages and forgotten. This Tumblr page is our way of sharing those odd bits and pieces that offer little glimpses of the books’ past owners.
Items featured on the site include bookmarks, postcards, old photos, love notes, grocery lists, and plenty of pet pictures. POP scans the items and posts one to the page each afternoon. Each post is captioned, many with words directly from the items themselves.
If you have donated books to the POP Project in the past, either directly or via one of our drop boxes around town, you may spot your ephemera on the feed. If you recognize your long lost favorite bookmark or recipe on our site, please contact POP through the website or at aPOPproject@gmail.com.
Check out the Tumblr page!
Click here to view our new Tumblr page. Be sure to follow the page to have daily posts sent to your Tumblr feed.
