“the minor transient documents of everyday life.”
I found a 21 year old receipt from the grocery store my in laws used to shop at. My mother in law passed away 7 years ago, and I love having a receipt for her Diet Coke.
So if the study of ephemera is finally coming into its own and recognized as a legitimate, scholarly endeavor, shouldn't we rename it "significa"?
We bought at a sale many volumes of a turn of the century Boston newspaper. So much fun to open up to a random page.
Makes me wonder what today's "ephemera" might be.
This is the kind of stuff I love pawing through in thrift stores and antique shops. Magazine pages and menus, especially.
I include ephemera in almost all of my library philatelic exhibits.
https://libraryhistorybuff.blogspot.com/2010/08/library-ephemera.html
Ephemera
I found a 21 year old receipt from the grocery store my in laws used to shop at. My mother in law passed away 7 years ago, and I love having a receipt for her Diet Coke.
So if the study of ephemera is finally coming into its own and recognized as a legitimate, scholarly endeavor, shouldn't we rename it "significa"?
We bought at a sale many volumes of a turn of the century Boston newspaper. So much fun to open up to a random page.
Makes me wonder what today's "ephemera" might be.
This is the kind of stuff I love pawing through in thrift stores and antique shops. Magazine pages and menus, especially.
I include ephemera in almost all of my library philatelic exhibits.
https://libraryhistorybuff.blogspot.com/2010/08/library-ephemera.html