Ephemera Journal, Volume VI

Volume VI features nine papers delivered at the Ephemera Society's third Symposium, held in Worcester, Massachusetts, in October 1993, and hosted by the American Antiquarian Society. It was called "The American Play Ethic: Ephemera of Recreation."

Articles:

• "The Devil is in the Dice," An Examination of Negative Attitudes Expressed Towards Games Players and to the Games Themselves, by Erika J. Wilson
• The Re-Creation of the American "Indian," by George Gregory Smart
• The Values of Industrial Society as Expressed by Board and Card Games, by Peter Freitag
• Old Maid's Extended Family, by David Galt
• Consuming Passions: Scrapbooks and American Play, by Deborah A. Smith
• Philately as a Collector's Paradigm, by Arthur H. Groten
• Children's Musical Play: the Role of the Phonograph, by Diana R. Tillson
• Leisure in the Great Depression: The Many Pieces of the Jigsaw Puzzle Story, by Anne D. Williams
• American Games in the 1950s: A Decade of Change, by Bruce Whitehill

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