The following is a guest post by Technical Services Technician Michelle An, with contributions from Technical Services Technician Jenni Orme and Curator of Popular and Applied Graphic Art Sara Duke. All authors work in the Prints & Photographs Division. With 6,000 items, the Dietrich Hecht collection of Bilderbogen (picture sheets) provides a robust cross section of the wide range of topics and uses for this rare type of ephemera. Examples include fables, military history, city views, and advertisements as well as confectionary decorations, paper doll and theater cutouts, board games, tavern decorations, and shooting targets, issued by German, French, and Russian publishers. The collection also has the Münchener Bilderbogen series–all 51 annual volumes that offer more than 1,200 picture stories.…