Learning with Play In 1986, the Pleasant Company introduced a line of historically contextualized dolls named American Girls which were sold with books that told their life stories. America’s toy industry shares an important bond with color lithography. As toy manufacturers grew to be a major influence on children’s play and parents’ pocketbooks during the second
Learning with Play This nine-pin bowling set toy was designed as both a fun activity and an educational toy. America’s toy industry shares an important bond with color lithography. As toy manufacturers grew to be a major influence on children’s play and parents’ pocketbooks during the second half of the 19th century, lithographic printing matured almost […]
Officers and Board of Directors DAVID LILBURNE, President I started book selling in London as Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints in 1976, and joined the UK Ephemera Society around 1980. Soon after relocating to the U.S., I found the ESA and have felt at home with[…]
Recently I was contacted by a descendant of Samuel Crump, the well-known Victorian era printer and president of the Crump Label Company. The firm had been founded in 1832 by his father—also Samuel Crump, a wood engraver and printer in Montclair, NJ, an immigrant from Wales. Crump senior retired in[…]
Young Scholars The annual Ephemera Society of America (ESA) conference provides undergraduate and graduate students a unique opportunity to share the methods they have developed to integrate ephemera into their course work and projects. We encourage faculty and university / special collections librarians to identify students who use collection resources in[…]
Receiving our current eNews by email monthly, is one of thebenefits of membership in the Ephemera Society. Here, archived, are earlier issues. August 2019 IN THIS IssueESA News[…]
In the 19th century, Baltimore was a thriving city. Many of the town’s influential burghers formed a highly secretive society, The Order of the Oriole, which organized what was intended to be a hugely extravagant pageant parade in 1881. It did take place, but was in many ways a disappointment;[…]
Index of The Ephemera Journal, Volumes 1-13 This index of The Ephemera Journal lists all of the articles published in the thirteen issues from 1987 until 2010. Several of these issues reprinted papers from Ephemera Society of America organized symposia. Volume 1:1987 – Volume 13: 2010 Articles:“A Baby in[…]
One of the pleasures of collecting ephemera is coming across details that are intriguing or surprising or revelatory or surprisingly relevant or interestingly obscure. The banner running around and through the word “DUNHAM” does something sophisticated, rarely attempted in wood engraving: emulating transparency. The banner is rendered as if one can[…]
[…] by Edward Charles Blount 1867-75 that combined photographs in imaginative watercolor collage. Three fellowship students showed material they researched: Sarah Carlson , menus; Caroline Johnson , production materials for the series Mad Men (she is also interest -ed in women aviators such as Harriet Quimby); and Virginia Seymour , the archive of Joe E. […]