Maya's Library of Links

The Hydrant Directory Directory of fire hydrants and their color palettes
Manhole Covers
Flickr Archive of Japanese manhole covers!
Do not Disturb Signs
Flickr archive of Hotel do not disturb signs
Japanese Hotel Labels
Archive of Japanese Hotel Labels
Postcard Past / Present Photos Interesting Site on Places on Postcards
Fonts in Use Typography Archive
Office Museum Everything to do with office history
Spoon Museum Everything to do with spoons
World of Playing Cards Incredible archive of playing cards. There are so many. Could spend forever looking through all the decks
Grocery Lists Collection of grocery lists left behind
Hummingbird Illustrations Restoration of John Gould's Monograph of the Trochilidæ
Ledger Book of William Bache Silhouette portraits drawn by William Bache
USDA Pomological Watercolors Color lithographs of different plants dating from 1894-1916
Labyrinth Database Database of every labyrinth ever
Pinball Machine Map Map of every pinball machine in your area! This is how I found out my favorite old pinball machine was removed last month and I'm still not over it
Sears House Database Database of Sears Homes across the US
Fictional Brand Archive Database of Fictional Brands
VADS
British repository of art and design free to use in education
Modern Illustration Archive of illustration from 1950-1975
The Peculiar Manicule
60s & 70s Psychedelic Ephemera
Little Wheels Museum Collection of Diecast Cars
N-Wheeled Vehicles
Digital museum of every car with a number other than four wheels
Antique Microscope Museum Museum of Antique Microscopes
Gruen Watch History Everything you need to know about Gruen watches
Cylinder Audio Archive UCSB Archive of Cylinder audio recordings
Tape Deck Archive
Digital archive of audio tape cassettes
Snellings Museum Digital museum of British home electronic artifacts
Mobile Phone Museum Digital museum of mobile phones
History of Discontinued Microsoft Creative Software - Museum of different versions
Radio Shack Catalogs - Radio shack catalogs online
Femicom Museum of Girls' Games (now I desperately wish I had a Casio Loopy)
London Bills of Mortality Database of weekly death bills of London
Tenement Town Uncovering Edinburgh's hidden lives of past residents around the city. Incredible history, something I'd never be able to do in the US!
England Ghost Signs Map Interactive map of ghost signs across England
The Book of Days - The complete Book of Days online, an incredibly rare book that was helpful in solving Cain's Jawbone
Rijksmuseum Visit the Rijks Museum in the Netherlands virtually
Romani Testimonies Testimonies of Romani people during WWII in Czech Lands and Slovakia. Lots of death and suffering but important information about often overlooked ethnic group.

Bonnibel's Graphics - Lots of free graphics
Adelfaure's ASCII Art - Incredible art made with ASCII

Covid Denialism - Article about Covid & Disability
A Time We Never Knew - Gen Z and Obsession with the Past
Social History of the Cardboard Box - Interesting article about cardboard boxes
Frankenstein, the Baroness, and the Climate Refugees of 1816 - Insight into the context of Frankenstein
Scenes of Reading on the Early Portrait Postcard - Essay about Postcards of people reading!
Ahab's Leg Dilemma: Part 1 - Fascinating analysis on Ahab's leg
Contraband Marginalia - Written by a prison librarian about notes found in library books
I Migrated to my Ancestral Homeland - Article about returning to your homeland (something I find interesting as someone who feels connected to Eastern Europe, the home of my ancestors on my dad's side)
How do we Transmit Culture when it cannot be put into Words? - Essay about the transmission of culture
Timisoaras Vanished Railway Depot - Article on a lost station in Romania and the ephemeral nature of architecture
Research as a Leisure Activity - Article on research done for leisure (what I do every day to relax)
Is Matches an Appeal the Oldest Surviving Animated Film? - Probably not the oldest!

A Website is a Room Inspiration for my website and links to other personal websites!
Rediscovering the Small Web More inspiration for the Small Web
A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden Incredible essay on the digital garden and a huge inspiration
Kicks Condor Fellow hypertext link lover! Amazing site design! He awesome!

Paywall Reader
No Paywalls; I believe in free access to the internet
Ubuweb Shadow library of hundreds of thousands of freely downloadable avant-garde artifacts
Open Letter to the Indie Web Stop using table layouts!!
CSS Flexbox Layout Guide Useful guide for Flexbox

Things Magazine - Linkblog of Lists of Things since 1994
Kottke - Excellent site that has been updated since 1998 with cool links and info from across the web
Daring Fireball - John Gruber's Linkblog, updated regularly since 2002
Waxy - Sandbox launched in 2002 for internet-related things and links
Nelson's Linkblog - Active linkblog since 2003
Hermits Around the Web - Links to information about hermits around the web since 2003
Neatorama - Sharing neat things every day since 2005
Open Culture - Free cultural & educational media on the web since 2006
Web Curios - Linkblog with interesting finds if you ignore the AI nonsense of recent years ca. 2010
Href.cool - Hypertext galore!! Lots of links!!
The Complete Review - Website with tons of comprehensive reviews of different books
Neglected Books - Blog on neglected books that have been mostly forgotten
Aeon - Excellent site with interesting essays
Pudding.cool - Visual Essays
Colossal - Online art magazine & blog with tons of interesting topics
Penaddict - Pen Reviews & stationery stuff
The Well Appointed Desk Another excellent stationery blog

Rotating Sandwiches Makes me hungry
Purple Toilet Inoperable
Fish on a Bike A Fish emoji on a bike. Why.
It's raining bouncy cats!!!!
It's corndogs all the way down
Endless Horse Waste your time scrolling down

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