HERE ARE SOME REMINDERS OF THE just passed OPPORTUNITY TO EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE. A post card with a nice graphic - it is designed to be posted back to the GeneEthics Network to … [Read more...]
It’s time
IT'S TIME TO THINK ABOUT POLITICAL EPHEMERA, WE SHARE A QUOTE AND LINK TO A STORY WRITTEN BY JAMES COCKINGTON IN 2007: The most memorable of recent times is the 1972 "It's time" campaign, which … [Read more...]
Hippies unite: you have nothing to lose but this society
IT IS A HIPPIE THING FROM THE VERY TAIL END OF THE MOVEMENT. Yellow poster with flowers and hands shaking from San Francisco and perhaps unsurprisingly without any issuing organisation … [Read more...]
Children
Transmission (exhibition) archiving HIV/AIDS Melbourne 1979-2014
FROM 14-25 JULY 2014, THE GEORGE PATON GALLERY, UNION HOUSE, UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE will be showing an exhibition of artwork, manuscripts, posters and other material from many private and public … [Read more...]
Getting there – by foot, balloon, steam, car
WE ALL LIKE TO TRAVEL, AND THERE ARE MANY WAYS OF DOING THIS. Here is a selection of ephemera showing the various ways we can get between two places - from hot air balloon to steam ship. The ephemera … [Read more...]
Lost and loved – home made street posters
STREET POSTERS ARE ALIVE AND WELL IN MOST SUBURBS. Generally one expects to see the garage sale advertisement followed by the plea for help for a lost animal. But there are some more unusual street … [Read more...]
Safety at work and home – SLV collection
The STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA (like all other like institutions) is digitising sections of its collection. What does this mean? Not sure technically but, if you search their catalogue online, you … [Read more...]
600 badges and 2000 T-shirts – the ephemera of International Women’s Day
"..unite and fight alongside the men.." that is how women can get better conditions according to the earliest, probably from 1935, piece of ephemera about International Women's Day (IWD) in the State … [Read more...]