Articles & Interviews
Don’t Collect Then Neglect!
It’s easy to get so caught up in the process of accumulating things - after all, that’s the fun part! - that you lose sight of some of the important details that...
Is This Real?
By Jonathan Smalter
No matter what subject areas or media your collection
focuses on, you will sometimes (and probably quite often) have a need to
authenticate some aspect of an item...
HOLIDAY-THEMED EPHEMERA
By Jonathan Smalter
A popular
area in ephemera collecting is holiday-themed items. It is relatively easy to
get started collecting this sort of thing, because there are so many available
examples, and...
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Interfoliata: a look between the pages
More blogs by Jonathan Smalter
I promised in an earlier post that I would revisit the term ‘interfoliata,’ and being a man of my word, I offer you the...
Cards of the past that would NOT fly today!
This article comes from Daily Mail
Collected items show the trends, interests and thought processes of people in the past. One of the more documented times is Christmas. In...
Christmas Card Memories
It’s the holiday season! How about some memories of Christmas cards.
In 1611 the first recorded Christmas card was sent from Michael Maier to James the First of England...
Digitizing the Barnum Museum Gallery After Disaster Hits
With time, all documents, photos and memorabilia fades, ages, disintegrates and loses it's original look. That already is a natural process but add a natural disaster and your chances of losing history gets even greater. ...
Ephemera Collection Protection Tips
What's so wonderful about a photograph is that looking at it, unless you were there, it will always be out of context, something new to feast your eyes on. Images can transport us to different decades, lifestyles and experiences. We can go to Paris and see the Eiffel Tower, pin up our favorite celebrities and now we can go...