ESA RECENTLY FIELDED A QUESTION ABOUT THE VALUE OF OLDER NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAPS. My own guess was $0 but that's not quite right. Luckily I asked our member and map seeker Gerry Dorset, and he … [Read more...]
Road atlases
TRAVEL EPHEMERA COMES IN MANY FORMS, and a favourite, although often a bit battered is the free road maps from petrol stations, tourist bureaus and the like. Here is a selection that has found its … [Read more...]
Travel ephemera
TASMANIA - ALWAYS A TRAVEL DESTINATION and thus the generator of some nice ephemera: This map from a Sydney based map producer has a lovely logo - extracted above - a rocket with the company … [Read more...]
Collecting maps: an uncharted journey 30 October 2019
'Collecting maps: an uncharted journey' presented by Emeritus Professor Robert Clancy AM. Robert has been an avid map collector for over 40 years, from $20 tourist maps to rare charts of … [Read more...]
Ephemera Journal of Australia May 2015
Contents Mrs Armstrong collects - swapcards Winter tourism in Australia - postcards and brochures The Richard Felix diaries Max Robinson resources map With fondest love - WW I … [Read more...]
Find it at the fair
OUR COLLECTABLES & EPHEMERA FAIR IS ON SUNDAY 19 MAY 2019, starting at 8.30 for members and 9.15 for the general public. Some of the stallholders, there are more than 30, have given us a peek … [Read more...]
1888 real snapshots of the giveaway panoramic view of Melbourne
UNTIL 22 AUGUST YOU CAN SEE Cabinets of Wonder exhibition, 12 July–22 Aug 2016 at RHSV, 239 A’Beckett St Melbourne. All welcome. Bring your friends. Entry is by gold coin donation. We reprint the … [Read more...]
Jubilee Harbor Trust – Op shop
LOOK WHAT PEOPLE (MAKE THAT RELATIVES) DISPOSE OF. Maybe working in libraries and op shops (and no doubt book shops) have the same joys of great unexpected finds. This turned up recently and is on … [Read more...]
Recording the Show (Royal Melbourne Show)
THE AGRICULTURAL SHOWS ARE A MIX OF CONTINUITY AND EPHEMERA; LOTS OF TRADITION AND LOTS OF DELIBERATELY SHORT-LIVED EXPERIENCES AND PUBLICATIONS. Historian Kate Darian-Smith writes about the Royal … [Read more...]