OVER TIME WE WILL ADD LOCAL EXAMPLES OF EPHEMERA REFERRED TO IN THE EPHEMERA BIBLE, Maurice Rickards' Encyclopedia of Ephemera (New York: Routledge, 2000). Here is a nice example of … [Read more...]
Military treasures
ON 15 May 2023, AN OPPORTUNITY TO SEE THE TREASURES OF THE ROYAL UNITED SERVICE INSTITUTE - The RUIS has an extensive library. What you may not be aware of is that they also have a large number of … [Read more...]
Vale Richard Felix
SOME PEOPLE ARE AN OPEN BOOK; Richard was an open diary, but only if it was unused. Richard’s collecting of diaries was inspired by samples his father brought home from work; Richard was six years … [Read more...]
Weddings past
TAKE A LOOK AT A WEDDING HELD DURING A PAPER SHORTAGE, AT THE END OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR in Grenfell, NSW in 1918. When I visited one of our regular ephemera donors (DB) to pick up a box of … [Read more...]
Vale Alan Waters
Vale Alan Waters 2022 – Paper World founder and foundation Ephemera Society member From the Paper World website: THE HISTORY OF PAPER WORLD Paper World founder, Alan Waters, initially … [Read more...]
The Jones Collection: a century of family’s life in Coburg
WHAT HAPPENS IF A LIFE TIME OF COLLECTING, IT IS RECOGNISED AS A SIGNIFICANT SOCIAL HISTORY RECORD. In late 2022 the Royal Historical Society of Victoria took delivery of the Jones Collection courtesy … [Read more...]
Australian Food Icons – a talk
AUSTRALIAN FOOD ICONS from the MATERIAL HISTORIES SERIES RUN BY THE OLD TREASURY BUILDING IN MELBOURNE You can view it in the Old Treasury Building website. Happy little Vegemite soldiers: … [Read more...]
Rare Book Week, last week of July 2023
WANT TO KNOW ABOUT HOW TO BUILD A COLLECTION ABOUT FAR FLUNG PEOPLE, OFTEN NOT ENGLISH SPEAKING, WHO WERE IMPRISONED IN AUSTRALIA IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS? Well come to Rare Book Week (RBW), and on … [Read more...]
When an avid collector dies
WHEN JOAN MATHESON, A COLLECTOR OF 90 YEARS STANDING DIED, her daughter Karen had the onerous task of clearing up and going through each piece of paper in an endeavour she took on to respect her … [Read more...]