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...]
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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...]
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...]
Radicalism: An exploration of radicalism, resistance and defiance around questions of gender & sexuality in the contemporary moment
This exhibition runs from 17 January 2014 to 23 February 23, 2014 at The Substation, 1 Market St., Newport, Melbourne. Radicalism includes a range of ephemera and archival material from the … [Read more...]