Ephemera Conference 29, 2009 Date: March 20-22, 2009 Location: Old Greenwich, CT Presentations: This yearโs ephemera conference features discussions on photographic postcards, Tasha Tudorโs designed postcards, flight images, the art of written correspondence, communication styles regarding death, steamboats, the history of quarantining, and using ephemera
Engraved Social Stationery
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: โThe Worldโs Greatest Bloodless Revolutionโ The great, great granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Coline Jenkins co-authored a book, 33 Things Every Girl Should Know about Womenโs History, and produced the television[…]
Arabesques and Circle Eights
Roller skating is a subject which offers 200+ years of ephemera to collect and/or study. The first appearance of skates with wheels is said to have occurred on stage in London in 1743. Over the next 50 years or so, many different sorts of skates were devised, with the
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[…]
Labels by Crump
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 fatherโalso 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[…]
Baltimoreโs Order of the Oriole Pageants
In the 19th century, Baltimore was a thriving city. Many of the townโs 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;[…]
Receiving our current eNews by email monthly, is one of thebenefits of membership in the Ephemera Society. Here, archived, are earlier issues. ย August 2019 IN THIS IssueESA News[…]
Whatโs So Interesting about THAT?
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 โDUNHAMโ does something sophisticated, rarely attempted in wood engraving: emulating transparency. The banner is rendered as if one can[…]