Ephemera 43: The American Ephemera Society's 2023 Annual Conference, Show, & Sale From Here to There: The Ephemera of Travel March 17-19, Old Greenwich … [Read more...]
Time to take a tour… Book review by Wendi Bradshaw
World Tour: Vintage hotel labels from the collection of Gaston-Louis Vuitton by Francisca Mattéoli. Published in 2013 by Xavier Barral, Paris. Review by ESA member Wendi Bradshaw. In the … [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...]
Coasting to collecting
WE ALL HAVE OUR AREAS OF INTEREST IN COLLECTING. And we can all be led astray. How divine are this selection of Air-India coaster? I bought these not at the fair but at a swap meet held by the ESA … [Read more...]
Looking for directions
HELP WANTED #1 TRAVEL Our inquirer writes: I am looking for some direction to where I may locate an old travel brochure from around 1979. It was promoting a tour to Singapore and Hong Kong … [Read more...]
Art deco – ephemera of that era
HOLIDAY TIME IN THE 1920s & 30s; THANKS TO ESA MEMBER AJAY FOR ACCESS TO THESE ART DECO TRAVEL BROCHURES, LABELS AND MENUS. If not to Tasmania, where might one go? When one travels, one by … [Read more...]
Public Record Office of Victoria (PROV) shows collections
THERE ARE LOTS OF WAYS OF SEEING PART of this vast collection of Victorian government records including from home. Here is a link to a selection of their art deco travel posters. You can visit … [Read more...]
Ephemera news #50
FINALLY, EPHEMERA NEWS #50 HITS THE NEWS STANDS. Actually its only available by subscription and will be posted out to members this week. It is 32 pages of full colour about collecting and collectors … [Read more...]
Ephemera gets the stamp of approval from Australia Post
NICE SETS OF STAMPS COMMEMORATING EPHEMERAL ADVERTISING CURRENTLY AVAILABLE AT THE LOCAL POST OFFICE. We don't usually consider ourselves stamp collectors but I like to look at them and encourage … [Read more...]