Travels in the Lands of Ephemera. Five fascinating speakers + afternoon tea. Join us on Saturday July 13 for an afternoon of discovery with five captivating talks. Each speaker will deliver unique … [Read more...]
The Ephemera Journal #9
MEMBERS HAVE RECEIVED THE NEW ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO TRAVEL EPHEMERA IN THE POST SOON AFTER EASTER. (If you don't get it let us know in the comments, so that we can check you were correctly … [Read more...]
Dating, again
THE NEXT JOURNAL ISSUE IS ABOUT TRAVEL - HERE AND OVERSEAS AND OVER MANY DECADES. And as usual we would like to date them more precisely. The publisher Some official tourist publications are … [Read more...]
Travel to talk about travel
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 at ESA swap meets
WE ALL HAVE OUR AREAS OF INTEREST IN COLLECTING. And we can all be led astray. How divine is this selection of Air-India coasters? 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...]