SERIES, I HOPE, ON 'MY FIRST PIECE OF EPHEMERA', this came up the other day in a pre-isolation discussion with ESA members. The first items we talked about didn't necessarily turn out to be a focus of … [Read more...]
Charles Troedel
This new book is the first to document the visual history of print advertising in Australia and in so doing provides a valuable illustrated social history of Australia. Charles Troedel (1835–1906) … [Read more...]
Dating the government printer
ALWAYS LOOKING FOR WAYS TO DATE THE UNDATED. This brochure about influenza is undated. A close read only tells us that it is post the 'Russian influenza' pandemic of 1889-90 which arrived … [Read more...]
Nylex 2553
CAN ANYONE HELP WITH MORE INFORMATION about this Nylex toy? It is numbered 2553. According to an entry on the Museums Victoria site Nylex originally manufactured toys as Playmate Toys, Moulded … [Read more...]
Unprecedented #0
THE POST FROM ANDREW H'S COLLECTION HAS INSPIRED ED J TO DIG INTO A BOX MARKED QUARANTINE. And he found: An oath of sorts that declares you have not been in contact with any one with the Spanish … [Read more...]
Unprecedented #1
WHAT WILL BE THE BEST EPHEMERAL RECORDS OF COVID 19? Looking back might assist. A certificate from 1919, it reads Thelma.. volunteered and worked as a member of the Staff Specially organised by … [Read more...]
Season’s greetings
SEASONAL HUNTING AND GATHERING IN YOUR OWN HOME during the flu season, that is. ESA member David H reports on a 'find' from the back of his first aid cabinet. Season's greetings, flu season that … [Read more...]
Bottle-O!
THE EPHEMERA SOCIETY PRODUCES JOURNALS ABOUT AUSTRALIAN EPHEMERA. The back page traditionally marks the smaller things in life - tea bag tags, matchbooks, mango labels. Issue #6 will show metal … [Read more...]
kids read the paper
MORE EPHEMERA OF SCHOOL DAYS - A University of Melbourne guide to sources on Victorian education advises that: From the 1872 Education Act until 1970 - the Victorian Education primary curriculum … [Read more...]