[…] 17). The librarian there explained that the Institute had dispatched a photographer to New York with his view camera and glass-plate films to take pictures of the latest modern Figure 11. Original Department of Buildings application to construct The Dakota. Figure 10a (author photograph), and 10b. The Architectural Record, November 1902. continued on page […]
Publishing the Railroad: The Ephemera Bonanza By Carlos A. Schwantes History Professor Emeritus, University of Missouri – St. Louis Several years ago, I reviewed a book, massive in size and gorgeous in appearance, by Ian Kennedy and Julian Treuherz titled The Railway: Art in the[…]
Ephemera Conference 29, 2009 Date: March 20-22, 2009 Location: Old Greenwich, CT Presentations: This yearβs ephemera conference features discussions on photographic postcards, Tasha Tudorβs designed postcards, flight images, the art of written correspondence, communication styles regarding death, steamboats, the history of quarantining, and using ephemera
The engraving of social stationery has long been a small but vital industry originating in Western Europe and subsequently practiced in the Americas and in the more affluent countries of the far East. Social stationery played a symbolic role in the literature of socially conscious writers such as Arthur[…]
Ephemera Conference 32, 2012 Date: March 16-18, 2012Location: Old Greenwich, CT Presentations: Coline Jenkins: βThe Worldβs Greatest Bloodless Revolutionβ The great, great granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Coline Jenkins co-authored a book, 33 Things Every Girl Should Know about Womenβs History, and produced the television[…]