On Friday, August 26 speakers discussed two very different perspectives on ephemera, from an appreciation of a historic form of advertising to the use of more recent ephemera to enrich a modern commercial experience.
The Ephemera Society of America’s forty-second conference, Creating Places and Spaces, took place on March 17-20, 2022 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Old Greenwich, CT.
Two professionals presented talks exploring our March 2022 theme, Creating Places and Spaces.
Two ephemera professionals shared their experiences with collections institutional and personal.
A fine and informative virtual conference using Zoom. The theme was Women Challenging Expectations.
Fine people, fine historical treasures, fine food.
Conference Focus: “Coming to America—The Immigrant Experience”
Each mid-year gathering is an unfolding revelation . . .
Conference Focus: “Let me Entertain You!”
While the Caribbean islands and West Coast of Florida bore . . .
Conference Focus: “Politics, Patriotism & Protest”
Conference Focus: “The Sporting Life”
Conference Focus: “Food & Drink: Field to Table”
Conference Focus: Design
Conference Topics: Palmer Cox, women’s history, Civil War, games, comic valentines, drugs ads on playing cards, and more.
Conference Topics: 19th century children’s paper theaters, magic shows ephemera, London attractions, carnival units from 1902-1908, 19th century circus imagery, the history of projectors, playbills, stage actors’ photographs, and more.
Conference Topics: Pocket-sized guidebooks, ocean liner ephemera, flying machine imagery, and more.
Conference Topics: Photographic postcards, Tasha Tudor’s designed postcards, flight images, the art of written correspondence, communication styles regarding death, and more.
Conference Topics: FDR’s stamp collecting, Ben Hur, rulers, type foundries, Arizona photographs, ephemera papermaking, and more.
Conference Topics: This conference featured discussions about healthcare advice for babies in the 19th and 20th centuries, children’s literature and book creation, ephemera related to medical self-treatment, and more.
Conference Topics: This conference featured discussions on the history of Halloween, the truth about Victorian magic lanterns, and ephemera in research at the Library Company of Philadelphia, and more.
Conference Topics: Benjamin Franklin, biography via ephemera, Victorian cards, Cripple Creek merchant, salesmen’s sample books, and more.
Conference Topics: Arts and Crafts greeting cards, trade cards, history of American periodicals, Palmer Cox, and more.
Conference Topics: Photographic ephemera, Starin’s Glen Island Resort, S.S. Pierce, African-Americans, and more.
Conference Topics: Bookmarks, Hagley Museum & Library, Wanamaker, Lindbergh, and more.
Conference Topics: Salmon, Thoreau, Rewards of Merit, Shaker Drawings, Strong Museum, miniature golf, La Belle Epoque, and more.
Conference Topics: George Washington, ephemera in the new century, Rutgers archives, cameo stamps, the Catskills, London, and more.
Conference Topics: Bakers’ chocolate, National Museum of Natural History, Albany Army Relief Bazaar, Teddy Roosevelt, color plate books, and more.
Conference Topics: The Shakers, stereoscopes, motels, and more.
Conference Topics: Crosswords, playing cards and card games, The Newseum, and more.
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An ephemera fair held in Old Greenwich, CT along with a “Collectors’ Forum”.
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Symposium “Job Printing in America” held October 20-21 at Colonial Williamsburg, Willamsburg, VA
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Symposium “The American Spirit of Transportation” held October 21-22 at the William L. Clements Library, Ann Arbor, MI
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Symposium “The American Play Ethic—Ephemera of Recreation” held October 22 at the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA
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Symposium “Designing American Life, 1780-1980” held November 14 at the Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, DE
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An ephemera fair and a symposium “Understanding Ephemera”.
It was the 10th anniversary of the Ephemera Society of America! Our conference was held in Old Greenwich, CT.
Conference Topics: Nabisco advertising, illustrated letter sheets, Carnegie Hall, and more.
Conference Topics: Canadian ephemera, paper conservation, the Strong Museum.
Conference Topics: Circus advertising, ephemera of the textile industry, Boston sheet music artists.
Conference Topics: Santa Claus and Father Christmas, Model T advertising, collecting carousels.
Conference Topics: Maurice Rickards’ award speech, ephemera at the Smithsonian, ephemera celebrating anniversaries.
Conference Topics: The Great Chicago Fire, “Presidents and Snake Oil”, American posters, political trade cards.
Conference Topics: Early American broadsides, maritime ephemera in the Bella Landauer collection.
Conference Topics: Baseball memorabilia, industrial advertising, the printing arts, patent medicines, postal history.
Conference Topics: Ephemera of Texas and the Southwest, “What is Ephemera?,” collecting, and more.
Conference Topics: Design and production of ephemera, auction houses, ephemera as a visual history, collecting.