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Cardboard History documents history through trading cards, using card sets as a way into the past.
Treats trading cards as historical artifacts, an angle for collectors who like the stories behind sets.
The About Me page introduces the person who writes the trading card history posts. It sits alongside pages on completed sets, the 1 of 1s and sets still missing from the collection, so it is the place to see who is doing the collecting and what they are chasing.
Visit linkA how-to page for collectors who post scans. It covers how to make a flat scan resemble the physical card held in hand, which matters because the blog's history posts are built from card images.
Visit linkA monthly tally of people shown on cards newly added to the collection. This October post credits birthday cards and a trade with another collector, names the Pieces of the Past Asia and Historic Autographs 1918: End of the Great War sets as sources, and covers which new people were scanned, including Deborah Sampson.
Visit linkCardboard History treats each card's subject as a route into the past. Monthly New People posts count the historical figures who joined the collection and which have been scanned, so the collection reads as a list of people as well as a set of cards. Labels such as Deborah Sampson, Jane Austen and Mozart gather every post about one figure across sets. Sets such as Pieces of the Past Asia and Historic Autographs 1918: End of the Great War show how trades bring in new names.
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