The significance of ephemera collections often comes from their social history and cultural context. To best capture this often means they require careful thought in the the initial cataloguing … [Read more...]
Why catalogue your collection?
Why catalogue your collection? It’s rewarding, cheap, simple, and everyone can do it – yet not many collectors take this step. Philip Moorhouse is proprietor of The Collecting Bug, a website where … [Read more...]
No boisterous behaviour
TEMPTED BY RULES - OBEYING OR CHALLENGING? A further look at this small volume before it goes to its new home at the Prahran Mechanics Institute post stage 4 Covid lockdown. Neat and tidy and … [Read more...]
Mastercraft
SWEET TIMES 2020 - have we been here before? You can see an article about the confectionery in Australia in the soon to be released issue of The Ephemera Journal of Australia. OK there may be a … [Read more...]
Manual for railway workers
IS IT EPHEMERA? LOVELY AND RARE PUBLICATION, Instructions re working of the St. Kilda and Brighton electric street railway 1915. Published by Victorian Railways 94 numbered pages with about the same … [Read more...]