• Political Ephemera
Every four years one form of ephemera is spotlighted: political ephemera and memorabilia. Presidential campaigns, conventions, and elections bring attention to what is produced by the campaigns and by others either in favor of the candidates or against them. Read article >>

• A Cripple Creek Tale
The rich mining history of Cripple Creek, Colorado was well documented even before Cal Otto began visiting what was then a ghost town in the early 1950s. But the stories told were about mines, miners, and mine owners. There was very little written about the town's thriving commercial life during the gold rush years of the 1890s. Read article >>

• Thumb-Sized Poster Stamps Worked As Hard As Their Full-Sized Cousins
"What are those beautiful stamps?" "They are poster stamps" is my reply. "All right, then, what is a poster stamp?" There is no formal agreed-upon definition.  The term arose to fill a need and that need varies with its user.  Read article >>

• Japanesque Trade Cards
With the opening of Japan to trade in 1854, the American market was flooded with goods from the Far East. Later on, exhibits of Japanese goods at the Centennial Exhibition in 1876 in Philadelphia and the success of Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta The Mikado as well as New York's exhibit The Japanese Village, both in 1885, exposed more Americans to Japanese wares and design. See Exhibit >>