STEREO PICTURES FROM 1963. ESA member Sue Ann Barber would like some help. Hello there! Hope everyone is well. Can you please ask everyone on the page if they have copies of TV Week magazine from … [Read more...]
Pandemics #10 NOW 2020
ARE YOU COLLECTING THE EPHEMERA OF TODAY'S PANDEMIC? Our institutional collectors will be interested, the National Library, state libraries, state museums and of course local history collections as … [Read more...]
I bought it at the September 2019 fair
NOT FAIR, NO FAIR IN SEPTEMBER 2020, so like others I am looking back at what I bought 12 months ago. And finding some joy. It seems longer ago and perhaps for that reason the first item to revisit is … [Read more...]
Collecting the Curve
JOIN A SERIES OF SEMINARS ABOUT COLLECTING run by Museums Victoria As the numbers in Victoria reduce, we turn our thoughts to the next three-part lecture series, 'Collecting the Curve', which … [Read more...]
On the cards – for father’s day
LOOKING AT MEN ON EPHEMERA - some specifically for father's day - this month. Drawn from our website archive. … [Read more...]
Unprecedented #6 Influenza
COLONIAL MUTUAL PUBLISHED A SERIES OF BOOKLETS ABOUT HEALTH ISSUES INCLUDING HOW THE INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC WAS MANAGED IN BRUNSWICK, VIC. STRANGE TIMES 2020 – have we been here before? This is one … [Read more...]
Unprecedented #7
STRANGE TIMES 2020 – have we been here before? This is one of a series of posts inspired by the 2020 Covid 19 pandemic. You can also see an article about the ephemera of the Spanish Flu in … [Read more...]
How to catalogue your collection
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...]