ANZAAB Joint Catalogue - listing books and other printed material for … [Read more...]
Busy studying?
FROM 1939, THIS DIARY DOCUMENTS EACH DAY IN TINY FLOWING HANDWRITING. In early February - it is all about visiting and sewing. A closer look shows that this is a student diary for 1939; from … [Read more...]
Time to use a diary again?
MANY WEEKS IN ISOLATION MEANT THAT THE DIARY HAD REALLY BECOME USELESS, NOTHING TO RECORD. NO APPOINTMENTS, NO MEETINGS, NO GET-TOGETHERS. But as we are allowed to engage with the world outside our … [Read more...]
Mum got me going
ESA MEMBER Steve F was taken out of school to attend each day of the Centenary Test with his mother. She conscientiously collected two of everything possible each day at the test. This included … [Read more...]
DGH – and the misplaced footballer
LOVED AND LOST OR SHOULD THAT BE, LOVED AND MISPLACED Long time ESA member DGH remembers his first piece of ephemera. Earliest treasured (albeit untraced) item: A signed photograph of Roy Wright, … [Read more...]
Andrew H
Andrew H TELLS US ABOUT HIS CONVERSION TO PAPER - TO EPHEMERA I started with Vida Goldstein. The collecting bug bit me quite early in life. By the age of 15, having progressed through stamps … [Read more...]
Mandy B
SERIES, I HOPE, ON 'MY FIRST PIECE OF EPHEMERA', this came up the other day in a pre-isolation discussion with ESA members. The first items we talked about didn't necessarily turn out to be a focus of … [Read more...]
Charles Troedel
This new book is the first to document the visual history of print advertising in Australia and in so doing provides a valuable illustrated social history of Australia. Charles Troedel (1835–1906) … [Read more...]
Dating the government printer
ALWAYS LOOKING FOR WAYS TO DATE THE UNDATED. This brochure about influenza is undated. A close read only tells us that it is post the 'Russian influenza' pandemic of 1889-90 which arrived … [Read more...]