Online Exhibitions

Actors and Actresses

"Louise Brooks," The Louise Brooks Society

http://www.pandorasbox.com/louisebrooks/archive.html

"The Sarah Bernhardt Pages"

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/%7Etemple/Sarah.htm

"Theater Ephemera," Northeastern Illinois University

http://www.neiu.edu/%7Erghiggin/ephem/Ephemera.html

Advertisements

"Ad Access," Duke University

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/

African Americans

"African American Sheet Music," Library of Congress

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/rpbhtml/aasmhome.html

"Beyond Face Value: Depictions of Slavery in Confederate Currency," US Civil War Center, Louisiana State University

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/cwc/BeyondFaceValue/beyondfacevalue.htm

American History

"American History Documents," Indiana University

http://www.indiana.edu/%7Eliblilly/history/history.html

"The Founding Documents of the United States of America," Williams College

http://www.williams.edu/resources/chapin/exhibits/founding.html

Harper's Weekly

http://www.harpweek.com/

"Ephemera - Historic Documents," "Philately - Stamp  Collecting - Railroad Postal History," "Scripophily - Railroad Stocks and Bonds," and "Railroad 'Iron and Hardware," Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum

http://cprr.org/Museum/Ephemera/index.html

Australia

"Australian Printed Ephemera Collection," National Library of Australia

http://www.nla.gov.au/collect/ephemera.html

Baseball cards

"Baseball Cards, 1887-1914," Library of Congress

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bbhtml/bbhome.html

Birding

"Birds of America, by J.J. Audubon," University of South Carolina

http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/nathist/audubon/audubon.html

Blotters

"Brown & Dixon Blotters," Stephen F. Austin State University

http://libweb.sfasu.edu/etrc/COLLECT/MANSCRPT/CORPRATE/b&d2main.htm

Broadsides

"Exhibit of Broadsides from Swem LibraryŸs Manuscript and Rare Book Collection, College of William and Mary

http://www.swem.wm.edu/spcoll/rbmss/broadsides/broadsid.html

"An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera," Library of Congress

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/rbpehtml/pehome.html

Canada

"Ephemera from the Age of Victoria: Printed and Manuscript Artifacts from the Collection of Barbara Rusch," E.J. Pratt Library, Victoria University in the University of Toronto

http://library.vicu.utoronto.ca/exhibitions/ephemera/index.htm

Caricature

"America in Caricature, 1765-1865," Indiana University

http://www.indiana.edu/%7Eliblilly/cartoon/cartoons.html

Celebrity Caricature in America," Smithsonian Institution

http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/caricatures/

Centennial Exhibition

"The Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia 1876," Free Library of Philadelphia

http://libwww.library.phila.gov/CenCol/index.htm

ChildrenŸs Literature

"From A to Z: An Exhibition of ABC Books Selected from the John O.C. McCrillis Collection," Trinity College

http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/library/watkinson/exhibits/AtoZ/abc.html

"Maxine Waldron Collection of ChildrenŸs Books and Paper Toys," Winterthur Museum

http://www.winterthur.org/about/maxine.asp

ComicArt

"Comic Art at Princeton University," Princeton University

http://libweb5.princeton.edu/Visual_Materials/gallery/

Conservation

"The Jamestown Records of the Virginia Company of London: A ConservatorŸs Perspective," Library of Congress

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mtjhtml/mtjessay2.html

Greeting Cards

"A Flowering of Affection: Victorian Valentine Cards at the Lilly Library," Indiana University

http://www.indiana.edu/%7Eliblilly/valentines/valentine.html

"Image and Sentiment: Five Publishers of Victorian Holiday Cards," Indiana University

http://www.indiana.edu/%7Eliblilly/xmas2/index.html

"The Scrap Album, Victorian Greeting Cards, Valentines & Scraps,"

http://www.scrapalbum.com/

"With the Compliments of the Season: An Online Exhibition of Victorian Holiday Cards in the Lilly Library," Indiana University

http://www.indiana.edu/%7Eliblilly/xmas/xmascard.html

Labels

"Crate Appeal: Citrus Labels as Advertising and Art," Cooper Regional History Museum

http://www.culturalcenter.org/exhibits/labels/labels.htm

"Historical Wine Labels," Wine Institute

http://www.wineinstitute.org/wilib/specialcollection/labels/

Maps

British Library

http://www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/mapmaker.html

National Archives of Canada

http://www.archives.ca/05/0514_e.html

University of Southern Maine

http://www.usm.maine.edu/%7Emaps/exhibit2/

Medical Ephemera

"Here Today, Here Tomorrow: Varieties of Medical Ephemera," National Library of Medicine

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/ephemera/ephemera.html

Miniature Books

"400 Years of Miniature Books," Indiana University

http://www.indiana.edu/%7Eliblilly/miniatures/index.shtml

Photography and Cinema

"Unknown Pleasures: Unwrapping the Royal Photographic Society Collection," Royal Photographic Society

http://www.nmpft.org.uk/exhibitions/

"Collectibles - Railroad & Photgraphy," Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum

http://cprr.org/Museum/Ephemera/index.html

Early Visual Media by Thomas Weynants

"Collecting Photo Ephemera" - http://www.visual-media.eu/photo-ephemera.html

"Collecting Pre-Cinema Ephemera" - http://www.visual-media.eu/pre-cinema-ephemera.html

Political Ephemera

"America Votes: Presidential Campaign Memorabilia from the Duke University Special Collections Library," Duke University

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/americavotes/

"Angelica Singleton Van Buren, 1817-1877," Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina

http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/hist/single/single.html

"Dr. Seuss Went to War: A Catalog of Political Cartoons, by Dr. Seuss," Mandeville Special Collections Library, University of California, San Diego

http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/index.htm

"The Political Ephemera Collection," Tulane University

http://www.tulane.edu/~lmiller/PoliticalEphemera.html

Posters

"All the Rage: The Poster in Victoria, 1850-2000," State Library of Victoria, Australia

http://www.statelibrary.vic.gov.au/slv/exhibitions/alltherage/alltherage.html

Sheet Music

"Sheet Music at Duke," Duke University

http://www.lib.duke.edu/music/fendshee.htm

Trade Catalogs and Trade Ephemera

"A Nation of Shopkeepers: Trade Ephemera from 1654 to 1860 in the John Johnson Collection," Oxford University

http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/johnson/exhibition/

"Trade Catalogs in the University of Delaware Library," University of Delaware

http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/tradecat/index.htm

"The 19th-Century Trade Card," Harvard Business School Baker Library

http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/19th_century_tcard/

Women

"Women & the Automobile: An Exhibit of Images & Objects," Buffalo Transportation Pierce-Arrow Museum

http://www.pierce-arrow.com/

"Hearts at Home: Southern Women in the Civil War," University of Virginia

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/exhibits/hearts/