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Printed ephemera An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera 
 A collection of over 7,000 advertisements, catalogs, newspaper clippings, leaflets, menus, pamphlets, proclamations, programs, timetables, and other ephemera. Searchable by keyword, and browsable by author, title, genre, and originating location. Items "capture the experience of the American Revolution, slavery, the western land rush, the American Civil War, woman suffrage, and the Industrial Revolution from the viewpoint of those who lived through those events." From the American Memory Project, Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/rbpehtml/ Topics: Black Resources, Labor, Nonfiction by Genre, Technology Last updated Jul 10, 2008 Call to Arms: Communist Ephemera of Madrid During the Spanish Civil War
"This exhibit focuses on the printed ephemera of the Partido Comunista de España (PCE) and affiliated groups produced in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War. Throughout the conflict, the PCE emerged as one of the prominent organs of propaganda in Madrid." Features images and translations of handbills and posters on topics such as mobilization, unity, and morale. Also includes a brief bibliography. From the Mandeville Special Collections Library, University of California, San Diego. http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/calltoarms/ Topics: History By Place, Political Parties & Theories, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Sep 13, 2006 The Ephemera Society of America
This organization was formed "to encourage the preservation and study of paper ephemera, to further the special interests of ephemerists, and to serve as a link among collectors, dealers, and scholars." The site features online exhibits of Japanese trade cards and dolls in advertising, examples of types of ephemera, articles, a bibliography, and links to related sites. http://www.ephemerasociety.org/ Topics: Collectors & Collecting, Nonfiction by Genre Last updated Dec 15, 2003 Graphic Design from the 1920s and 1930s in Travel Ephemera
This online gallery displays an extensive personal collection of illustrated ephemera from European, Asian, and American "travel brochures, airline time-tables, ocean liner time-tables, auto road maps, luggage labels, advertising and graphic design publications." Links to examples of Art Deco and Art Moderne commercial art are divided by nationality and into themes such as "Automotive" and "Nautical." Searchable. Note: Site displays best in Internet Explorer. http://www.travelbrochuregraphics.com/ Topics: Advertising & Marketing, Art, Arts and Humanities, Business, Nonfiction by Genre Last updated Jun 1, 2008 Patent Medicine Trade Cards
Website for an ongoing effort to digitize a collection of 19th century "small, colorfully illustrated advertising cards touting a particular medicine and its many cures. The illustrations often have little to do with any of the ailments purported to be cured. They were pure advertising and very collectible." Searchable by keyword, such as "oil, extract, tonic, disease, ache, consumption, ague, dyspepsia, kidney, liver, heart, bowels, [and] appetite." From the University of California, Los Angeles, Library. http://unitproj1.library.ucla.edu/dlib/medicinecards/ Topics: Advertising & Marketing, Drugs Last updated Sep 25, 2006 Vietnam War Era Ephemera Collection
"This database contains leaflets and newspapers that were distributed on the University of Washington campus during the decades of the 1960s and 1970s. They reflect the social environment and political activities of the youth movement in Seattle during that period." Includes an excerpt from the book "Rites of Passage: A Memoir of the Sixties in Seattle." Browsable by subject; searchable by subject heading or keyword. From the University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections. http://content.lib.washington.edu/protestsweb/index.html Topics: Activism, Nonfiction by Genre, Society & Social Science, Technology Last updated Jan 10, 2005 WTO Seattle Collection
A searchable and browsable collection of fliers, posters, leaflets, photographs, planning documents, and signs created for the protests that "took place between November 29, 1999 and December 3, 1999, when the World Trade Organization (WTO) held its ministerial meeting in Seattle." From the University of Washington Libraries, Digital Collections. http://content.lib.washington.edu/wtoweb/ Topics: International Trade Last updated Feb 14, 2005 |
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