[PDF] This Is Ephemera eBook

Author : Michael Twyman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1322 pages
File Size : 36,72 MB
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 113678778X

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The joy of finding an old box in the attic filled with postcards, invitations, theater programs, laundry lists, and pay stubs is discovering the stories hidden within them. The paper trails of our lives -- or ephemera -- may hold sentimental value, reminding us of great grandparents. They chronicle social history. They can be valuable as collectibles or antiques. But the greatest pleasure is that these ordinary documents can reconstruct with uncanny immediacy the drama of day-to-day life. The Encyclopedia of Ephemera is the first work of its kind, providing an unparalleled sourcebook with over 400 entries that cover all aspects of everyday documents and artifacts, from bookmarks to birth certificates to lighthouse dues papers. Continuing a tradition that started in the Victorian era, when disposable paper items such as trade cards, die-cuts and greeting cards were accumulated to paste into scrap books, expert Maurice Rickards has compiled an enormous range of paper collectibles from the obscure to the commonplace. His artifacts come from around the world and include such throw-away items as cigarette packs and crate labels as well as the ubiquitous faxes, parking tickets, and phone cards of daily life. As this major new reference shows, simple slips of paper can speak volumes about status, taste, customs, and taboos, revealing the very roots of popular culture.

Author : Graham Spence Hudson
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 16,6 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :

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This book is new in that it discusses ephemera as an aspect of design history, showing how function, process and period have affected the changing appearance of leaflets, tickets, posters, trade cards and other ephemera. The printing histories of Britain and America are closely woven. Colonial printers and engravers imported British type and equipment and took instruction from the same manuals, a relationship that continued through the first half of the nineteenth century. It was in the years following the Civil War that American and British graphic design and typography began to establish their own identities as developments in colour printing brought an explosion of colourful ephemera. Richly illustrated with letterforms, engravings, drawings and the reproduction in colour of 200 items of ephemera, this is a book for collectors, students, design historians and all those with an interest in the visual arts.

Author : Maurice Rickards
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 23,26 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :

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"Ephemera: "printed or handwritten items, produced for short-term use and, generally, for disposal," are tickets, labels, calling cards, trade cards, menus, posters, billheads, packages, throwaways of all kinds. Colorful, various, rich in nostalgia, they are irresistible to collectors, in part because as "collectibles" they are a novelty and can be had practically free for the picking up. This book, the first general guide to ephemera for the American collector, shows a variety of types, tells where to find ephemera, how to collect, what's good and what's bad ephemera, what ephemera may be worth. A delightful and unique introduction to a fascinating field."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Brian Coleman
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 31,17 MB
Release : 2014-08-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 1423633652

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Cavallini is one of the best-known companies for high-quality gift and stationery products. They have been producing everything from calendars to wrapping papers for 25 years. Designs are based on ephemera from all walks of life—charming vintage post cards of the Eiffel Tower, centuries-old hand-colored engravings of birds and flowers, rare maps and prints, amusing early twentieth-century advertisements and trade materials. From the hottest world travel destinations—Bon Voyage, San Francisco, New York, London, Italy and Paris—to popular themes such as Christmas, Flora and Fauna and Animals, this book will inspire anyone who enjoys art and design. Brian D. Coleman is the author of Fortuny, Barry Dixon Interiors, and Farrow & Ball: The Art of Color, among other home design books. He writes for Old House Interiors and other magazines. He divides his time between New York and Seattle.

Author : Niles Eldredge
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 49,56 MB
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 023152675X

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All organisms and species are transitory, yet life endures. The origin, extinction, and evolution of species—interconnected in the web of life as "eternal ephemera"—are the concern of evolutionary biology. In this riveting work, renowned paleontologist Niles Eldredge follows leading thinkers as they have wrestled for more than two hundred years with the eternal skein of life composed of ephemeral beings, revitalizing evolutionary science with their own, more resilient findings. Eldredge begins in France with the naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, who in 1801 first framed the overarching question about the emergence of new species. The Italian geologist Giambattista Brocchi followed, bringing in geology and paleontology to expand the question. In 1825, at the University of Edinburgh, Robert Grant and Robert Jameson introduced the astounding ideas formulated by Lamarck and Brocchi to a young medical student named Charles Darwin. Who can doubt that Darwin left for his voyage on the Beagle in 1831 filled with thoughts about these daring new explanations for the "transmutation" of species. Eldredge revisits Darwin's early insights into evolution in South America and his later synthesis of knowledge into a theory of the origin of species. He then considers the ideas of more recent evolutionary thinkers, such as George Gaylord Simpson, Ernst Mayr, and Theodosius Dobzhansky, as well as the young and brash Niles Eldredge and Steven Jay Gould, who set science afire with their concept of punctuated equilibria. Filled with insights into evolutionary biology and told with a rich affection for the scientific arena, this book celebrates the organic, vital relationship between scientific thinking and its subjects.

Author : William Woys Weaver
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,33 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780520259775

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"Weaver's personal collection of food-and-drink ephemera is a marvel of culinary Americana. Few works have captured so precisely and memorably the interplay of food, design, technology, business and popular culture."--Laura Shapiro, author of "Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century"

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Publisher : Peter Pauper Press Incorporated
Page : pages
File Size : 16,41 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781441338358

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Vintage stickers make charming accents. Beautiful, fun, and functional sticker book collections are perfect for scrapbooking, journaling, paper crafts, and for personalizing planners and calendars!

Author : Darren Henley
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 36,71 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781904027812

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Do you want to know your Allegri from your Allegro? Your Tavener from your Taverner? Even your Bach from your Offenbach? Classic Ephemera is a musical miscellany packed with all manner of handy information: telling trivia, curious quotes and fascinating facts.

Author : Evana Bodiker
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 14,73 MB
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 168003149X

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In Ephemera, winged creatures elegize and celebrate the beauty of evanescence simultaneously. The poems speak to the ambivalence of coming of age beset by the daily trials of chronic illness as viewed through the lens of femininity and love in the confessional tradition. Odysseus Difficult to divine how you arrived, not water-doused or mail-slotted to me, but whole in your stone-centered gaze, almost tired out by your ninety days under stars. Satisfied by none, you chose me to be your canary, waiting, green with hope for your return. Coming home from the back-woods, you made me into your mooring, fashioned yourself into a pilgrim to my bed’s unmade shrine. I’ll make a Ulysses out of you yet. Yes, the butterfly kind, blue body mild as the Aegean, crushing. I will weave our dreams together: never go back to sea without me as your mate.