Empty Diaries from Interesting Times
John Ptak recently posted about empty diaries from significant places on his wonderful Ptak Science Books blog. John thoughtfully wrote to alert me about the post and how it fit into a unique category of ephemera. In talking about the post, John said his recent online essay was in reference to special, associative diaries. In his own shop, John has two examples, both Nazi-era.
"…one was a diary for a German POW in Tennessee, the other and the one I wrote about is for German soldiers in occupied Poland for 1941," John wrote.
The reason I bring this up, aside from pointing you to John's excellent post on the subject, is John mentioned that he was curious to see if this sort of thing rings a bell with ephemera collectors. In other words, are any ephemera blog readers collecting diaries from historically interesting time periods?
Photograph by photosanO.
