ESA eNews #35
Diane DeBloise, Editor

Mark Your Calendar:
-- July 10, 2 pm, Huntington Library, San Marino, California, lecture on Early American Paper Mills by John Bidwell, curator of printed books and bindings at the Morgan Library and Museum. See www.huntington.org.

-- July 13, 7 pm, New York City, The Old School, 233 Mott Street. A lecture sponsored by The Architectural League by Gabrielle Esperdy "Mainstream and Marginal: The Work of John Margolies" -- including a conversation with John. Free but reservations requested: rsvp@archleague.org.

-- Until October 2 at the Morgan Library, New York City, exhibition: "Lists: To-dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts, and other Artists' Enumerations" with material from the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution, curated by Liza Kirwin. www.morgan.org. Here is an illustrated packing list from a notebook by the artists Adolf Konrad, December 16, 1963.

-- Boston, Friday September 9, a regional member's tour day (the Board meeting to be the next day) organized by Barbara Loe, Board Member. Includes Historic New England in Boston, hosted by Lorna Condon, former Board Member and Curator of Library and Archives; lunch in the Cambridge area; the Houghton Library at Harvard University, hosted by Tom Horrocks, Board Member. Space on the tours is limited to 15, so sign up early! bjloe@earthlink.net

-- September 14 -- November 12. The Grolier Club, New York City, an exhibition curated by Anne H. Hoy: "Silver Screen/Silver Prints; Hollywood Portrait Photographs form the Robert Dance Collection." Free, Monday to Saturday 10 to 5. And, in December, an exhibition: "Printing for Kingdom, Empire, and Republic: Treasures form the Archives of the Imprimerie Nationale."  www.grolierclub.org.

-- October 8 -- January 9, 2012, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California, an exhibition: "Blue Sky Metropolis: The Aerospace Century in Southern California."

-- August 25 deadline for proposals to give a presentation at Ephemera/32 in Old Greenwich CT March 16.

CALL for PAPERS
For presentation at the annual conference on Friday, March 16, 2012.  "American Social History as Seen Through Ephemera."  Each 30-minute presentation may address any aspect of American Social History (for example  the Civil War, Women's suffrage, American political history, the  impact of the industrial revolution on daily life, the history of immigration or the changing role of minorities over the decades, among many possible topics).

Please send presentation titles and abstracts including the types of ephemera you propose to use to illustrate your topic, a one-paragraph bio including any affiliation and your mailing address, phone number and e-mail address.  Abstracts should not exceed 250 words, and should be submitted by August 25, 2011, to Barbara Loe, Ephemera 32 Conference Chair by e-mail at bjloe@earthlink.net or by post to Barbara Loe, 11165 Penfield Ave. North, Stillwater, MN 55082. Decisions and notification about proposals will be made by October. Funding is not available from ESA to support travel or presentation costs. Presentations must be in Microsoft Office Power Point and should be submitted to the Conference Chair by February 15th, 2012.

Ephemera in Print:
-- Aperture has just published Photographic Memory: The Album in the Age of Photography, by Verna Posever Curtis.

-- The Bodleian Library has just published Women & Hats: Vintage People on Photo Postcards, with a foreword by Philip Treacy.

-- Caroline Preston announces a new novel in pictures coming October 25, The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt, http://carolinepreston.com/

Ephemera in Institutions:
-- The John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History at Duke University's Special Collection Library has an impressive list of online finding aids for collections such as Pepperidge Farm Advertising. Among their projects is a database of, presently, over 9,000 advertising items and publications 1850-1920 that illustrate the rise of consumer culture. http://library.duke.edu/specialcollections/hartman/

-- The work of Norman Rockwell and Tom Wolfe (yes, the author of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is also a caricaturist) will be highlighted this summer at the National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, Rhode Island. www.americanillustration.org.

Ephemera  Online:
-- On our website, www.ephemerasociety.org, there is a well-visited tab called "What is Ephemera?" with a list of various categories -- several of which still needing text and images -- can you help fill in the gaps? dicksheaff@cox.net

-- Nancy Rosin noticed a recent excellent article based on a 1912 postcard: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/17/a-postcard-from-1912-returns-to-brooklyn/

-- The Maine Memory Network has a new online exhibit: "Working Women of the Old Port" that explores the many places and ways that women worked in Portland in the early 20th century -- from canneries to schools to department stores. The exhibit is based on a self-guided book tour of the same name. www.mainehistory.org.

-- A regional meeting out of Poughkeepsie several years ago included a tour of WPA-period post office murals. Check out this website that honors post office murals across the country. http://www.americanpostalcollection.com/postal-art-history/

Ephemera Dealers:
-- University Archives offers a newsletter that highlights important manuscript items -- the latest focusing on the Revolutionary War and early republic includes an example fo the rare Force engraving of the Declaration of Independence from 1848. Subscribe at: Newsletter@universityarchives.com

-- Check out these websites for upcoming shows & auctions: http://www.allentownpapershow.com/; http://www.Bornsteinshows.com/; http://www.mundaauctions.com/; http://www.papermaniaplus.com/; http://www.paigeauction.com/; http://www.flamingoeventz.com/.

-- Although online is most common, Marc Selvaggio issues a very handsome print catalogue of ephemera, the most recent is number 137 .dsbooks@comcast.net.

Ephemera Alphabet Challenge (send to the eNews editor, Diane DeBlois  agatherin@yahoo.com):
-- Thanks to Bill and Carol Mobley of Denver for this figural alphabet on a postcard ca1905: