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• 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
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Surf the Ephemera News Index >>
Looking for information on wine of tar, the Wide Awake Marching Club, polar postcards, or loyalty oaths? These categories and more than 1,100 others are now available at your fingertips thanks to a searchable index of all past issues of Ephemera News, 1981-2008. It will be updated annually.
The alphabetical index contains more than 1,100 entries, many of them with dozens of individual sub-references. There also are separate listings of 178 books that have been reviewed in the Interesting Books section and the magazine's 273 advertisers. References with an image are boldfaced.
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• Polar Postcards Heat Up The Peary / Cook North Pole Debate
April is a special month in polar exploration. It's the month in which Robert Peary claimed to have reached the North Pole in 1909. It's also the month in which Dr. Frederick Cook claimed to have stood at the Pole a year earlier. Read article >>
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• 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 >>
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• 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
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• 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 >> |
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Ephemera Society of America Fellowship
The Ephemera Society invites applications for
the Philip Jones Fellowship for the study of
Ephemera. The competition is open... Read article >>
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The Ephemera Journal
The most recent issue of The Ephemera Journal, Volume XII published April 2008, has three very different articles that, as serendipity would have it, include some common themes. Members receive the Journal as a benefit of membership; it also is available for purchase at our online store. Read more >>
Table of Contents:
As You Like It: Ephemera at the Folger Shakespeare Library by Erin Blake, PhD
With Good Detective Work, Playing Cards Help Picture the Past by Gejus van Diggele
Our Saving Graces: Archivists of the Past, Present, and Future by Nancy Rosin
The Great Scrapbook by John Grossman
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The Ephemera Society of America, Inc. is a non-profit
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