Ephemera Journal, Volume V

In November 1992, the Ephemera Society held its second Symposium at the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, located near Wilmington, Delaware. The title of the Symposium was "Designing American Life: Manuscript & Printed Ephemera."

Articles:

• Rufus Porter: An American Renaissance Man, by Geo. Gregory Smart
• Currier & Ives Lithographs: Nineteenth Century ad hoc American "Democratic Vistas," by Donald Zaldin
• Gleason's Pictorial: Elevating and Celebrating American Life, by Sally Pierce
• Weeping Sad and Lonely: Patterns of Alienation in Nineteenth Century Manuscript Ephemera, by Barbara Rusch
• Japanese Influences on American Trade Card Imagery and Design, by Thomas Beckman
• "Prodigally Endowed with Sympathy for the Cause:" Mark Twain's Involvement with the Anti-Imperialist League, by Jim Zwick
• E-Mail and the American Character, by Emilie W. Gould

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