KOOKABURRAS, BEEN TRYING TO SPOT THEM LATELY with preparations in full swing to finalise the kookaburra issue of The Ephemera Journal. Older badges with a rousing Australian theme come from … [Read more...]
New year’s greetings
NEW YEAR MEANS SNOW FOR THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE AND CREATED SOME BEAUTIFUL SCENES. WE LOOK BACK HERE, AND FINALLY FORWARD TO THE 2010S WITH SOME AUSTRALIAN NEW YEAR EFFORTS. Alcohol and new year … [Read more...]
Meet Michael Taffe, bookmark collector
NEWish MEMBER MICHAEL TAFFE advises: Following an early career as a welfare worker and counsellor I became involved in education and the arts and have now retired as an archivist and professional … [Read more...]
Let us shout you a drink (or two)
THIS IS NOW A PAST EVENT - ON WEDNESDAY 16 NOVEMBER, THE ESA ANNUAL DINNER. At the Old England Hotel, 459 Lower Heidelberg Rd, Heidelberg VIC 3084. About 20 members gathered for a bit of a … [Read more...]
On this day
WHEN PUBLIC TRANSPORT TICKETS WERE LITTLE PIECES OF HISTORY. Would this anniversary of electric trains in Australia be of much interest to someone travelling to Flemington on 6 October 1968? And a … [Read more...]
Kookaburras wanted
THE NEXT EPHEMERA JOURNAL WILL BE A VISUAL SPECIAL DEVOTED TO THE KOOKABURRA. Inspired by Michael A's zoom presentation on his two dimensional laughing jackasses, Mimmo Cozzolino will be photographing … [Read more...]
What’s happening in the wider ephemera world? France
A review of the French ephemera society, Le Vieux Papier by ESA member Wendi Bradshaw Le Vieux Papier Interest in this association was inspired from information mentioned within Francisca … [Read more...]
EPHEMERA INVENTORY – HOW TO VOTE CARDS
Government paper replaces free drinks The Australian colonial parliaments inherited the British way of voting. Men who qualified to vote came to the designated public voting place which was usually … [Read more...]
3UZ TOP 40
3UZ 3UZ started broadcasting in March 1925 as ‘The Voice of Victoria’. It had the first B-class licence which meant that it could broadcast paid advertising rather than rely on income from … [Read more...]