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This cigar box label is from a Minnesota company, Hook'em Cow.
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Moira and Leo Harris are authors of the new book "Minnesota on Paper: Collecting our Printed History." The book features paper ephemera from various collections around the state.
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As you're preparing for the holidays, you may be hauling gifts in paper shopping bags and sorting through receipts, and these paper items may not seem worth hanging on to.
This shopping bag is part of the ephemera collection of Moira and Leo Harris.
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But, Moira and Leo Harris would argue otherwise. Cathy Wurzer talked with them about their new book called "Minnesota on Paper: Collecting Our Printed History" that tells Minnesota's history through ephemera, from postcards to police blotters.
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