I would like to present the president’s annual report for the year July 2020 to June 2021. Activities To state the obvious there have been few activities possible in the last year because of … [Read more...]
Poorman’s orange
Another citrus recipe booklet from a few decades later This booklet has quite a different feel - a colour cover, two colour page decorations, and only 16 pages of suggested uses. Each left hand … [Read more...]
Oranges & lemons & railways
Why in 1928 would Victorian Railways Commissioners publish a large recipe booklet, 72 pages, about how to use oranges? The answer lies with the appointment in 1920 of Harold Clapp as the railways … [Read more...]
Redskins No More
Cathy Pryor, curator and postgraduate student in Museum and Heritage Studies at Deakin University, looks at a name change reflecting a new awareness about the old names for … [Read more...]
It’s a set
SINGLE ITEMS CAN BE GREAT, flyer, trifolded, 14x8cm,soliciting your donation with accounts of the work of the Red Cross in 1958. But when it comes with a covering letter (three times the size … [Read more...]
Bookmarks
THE ESA JOURNAL WAS POSTED OUT IN JUNE 2021, AND IN IT EACH MEMBER WILL FIND A BOOKMARK. The bookmarks are courtesy of the Estate of Amy Turner and via ESA member Elizabeth Willis. if you have't … [Read more...]
Records of women’s work
YOU CAN WATCH ONLINE THE AMERICAN EPHEMERA SOCIETY'S CONFERENCE HELD ONLINE IN MARCH 2021. Go to this link. There is a rather simple guide to find your way between talks. There is some fabulous … [Read more...]
Theatre ephemera
This wonderful new book ‘HANKY PANKY: THE THEATRICAL ESCAPADES of ERNEST C ROLLS’ by Frank Van Straten (Readings & others, hard back $49.95), is full of Australian theatre posters and pictures of … [Read more...]
Ephemera news or news about ephemera #1
In France, as a post Covid stimulus for the arts, 18-year-olds received $485 to spend via an app – at galleries, museums, concert halls, cinemas, and bookshops. The biggest surprise is the number of … [Read more...]