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Items from Fountain, Colorado, the archetypal suburban American town, as designated by The New York Times:
- Purple Heart medal from the Vietnam War donated by Ralph J. Nothstine
- Anti-shoplifting "Gator tag" from WalMart
- Unicorn Beanie Baby
- Commemorative pins (2) from Fountain, CO
- WalMart bar codes
- Barbed wire
- Dog tags
- Firearms registration form
- Pager from Mobile Telecommunications Incorporated
- Motorola cellular phone, battery, and brochure
- Photographs and coins
- Friendship bracelet
- Advertisement for Ford Expedition sport utility vehicle
- Colorado Quest food stamp ID card
- Parent and Student Information Handbook
- SCI Escape School Brochure
Items and suggestions from small towns around the world:
- List of submissions from overseas
- Atlético Paraná soccer jersey from Brazil
- Protector Plus condoms from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
- Pack of Madison cigarettes from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
- Vial of penicillin from Mantes-la-Jolie, France
- Parking ticket from Curitiba, Brazil
- Section 17 of the Indian Constitution from Bharatpur, India
- Zvigaro chair from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Items from the editors of The New York Times Magazine:
- Archival, acid-free paper copies of the series of Millennium Issues of The New York Times Magazine
- HD-Rosetta Disc containing a series of microscopic images of all Millennium Issues
- The New York Times issue of January 1, 2000
- Nickel LP record containing sounds of the late twentieth century
- New York Yankees baseball
- Child's tooth
- Greeting cards
- Child's drawing with photos of the artist (4)
- Personal Identification:
- Video rental card
- Phone card
- Medical card
- Passport
- Birth certificate
- Tie pin from A.R.T. Research Enterprises
- Material World: A Global Family Portrait (a compendium of families from around the world photographed with their household possessions)
- A David Letterman top ten list
- Day of Sound 2000: Worldwide recordings from January 1, 2000 (Sharp minidisc player included with instruction manual and power supply) submitted by Jason Reinier
- Perception of tones: pitch and loudness scales
- Y2K Bug, as represented by stuffed toy
- Excerpt from Michael Pollan's The Botany of Desire
- Wild apple seeds from Kazakhstan
- Macintosh mouse
- Wedding cake ornament
- St. John's Wort capsules
- The Holy Bible in multiple translations
- Weight Watchers Magazine
- Butt Blaster instruction manual
- National Enquirer
- 28 hair samples: (with the exception of Pawel Kedzior, former asbestos worker; and Dolly, the cloned sheep, samples were volunteered by United Nations representatives from around the world.)
- 6LL3 Dolly, the cloned sheep
- Marc Labelle
- Line Bernier
- David Buck
- Marco Carmignani
- Minerva Medina
- Merkes Gebremedhin
- Dr. Hyun Sook Suh
- Sveinn Bjornsson
- Sarah C. Knauss
- Kanzi
- Pawel Kedzior
- Sema Gurun
- Juan Carlos Salvagno
- Maureen Otto
- Anna Granstrom
- Hiram Vélez
- Janett Beswick
- Milagros Méndez
- Paolo Vacchina
- Lesley Wilkinson
- Maria-Teresa Trista'n-Rosanio
- Michael H.S. Chan
- Viola Rugege-Kamara
- Mark Tominschek
- Nikolai Galkin
- Arif Mahmud
- Jessica Cairo-Chrysafi
- Fortune from a fortune cookie
- Selected books:
- Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book-Dr. Seuss Enterprises, 1990
- Betty Crocker 50th Anniversary Cookbook-1999
- Dictionary of American Slang-Harper Collins, 1995
- The Power Broker-Robert A. Caro, 1974
- Guinness Book of Records 1999-Bantam Books, 1999
- Go Tell It on the Mountain-James Baldwin, 1995
- Imperium-Ryszard Kapuscinski, 1994
- Dispatches-Michael Herr, 1991
- The Bridges of Madison County-Robert James Waller, 1992
- 2001: A Space Odyssey-Arthur C. Clarke, 1968
- Diving into the Wreck-Adrienne Rich, 1973
- For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf-Ntozake Shange, 1997
- Ariel-Sylvia Plath, 1965
- I Capture the Castle-Dodie Smith, 1948
- Peyton Place-Grace Metalious, 1956
- Survival in Auschwitz-Primo Levi, 1958
- A Secret History of Time to Come-Robie Macauley, 1979
- Santiago Calatrava Material
- Letter of invitation to competition
- Original proposal
- Guidelines
- Invitation to "Capturing Time: The New York Times Capsule"
Items and suggestions from readers of the New York Times website:
- Sample of thousands of Internet submissions
- Owner's manual, in multiple languages, for a Sentry Fire Safe
- Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech
- Food and Drug Administration dietary guidelines for Americans
- Small Parts Incorporated catalog
- Alcoholics Anonymous book and pamphlets
- Internal Revenue Service Federal Income Tax Form 1040 (2000)
- Post-It Notes
- Personal finances:
- Monthly bills
- Checkbook register
- Cancelled checks
- Bank statements
- Telephone book, Manhattan White Pages (2000)
- New York apartment photographs (21 of 4" x 6")
- Letter from Stephen Mihm, Times Capsule Coordinator
Miscellaneous items:
- Photographs from the address 3 Times Square (51)
- Reservation list for the Four Seasons Restaurant
- Garry Trudeau cartoon sketch
- Material Safety Data Sheets for insulation used in time capsules
- Smithsonian (February 2000)
- Fortune Technology Guide (Winter 2001)
- Life (February 1998)
- American Survival Guide (April 1999)
- Popular Science (December 1998)
- Business Week (January 29, 2001)
- Automobile (July 1999)
- Streets 98 CD (Microsoft)
- PC game Sonic & Knuckles (Sega)
- New York on $1,000 A Day, Before Lunch-Ferne Kadish, Kathleen Kirkland, and Glaydee Bagelman, 1981
- The Old Farmers Almanac 1999-Robert B. Thomas, 1998
- Billions & Billions-Carl Sagan, 1997
- Time (December 25, 2000/January 1, 2001)
- Time (January 29, 2001)
- Our New York-Alfred Kazin & David Finn, 1989
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