Pieces of Paper: Ephemera as Witness to History!

Great article on how Ephemera can inform your discovery of a more complete family and community history.

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EPHEMERA RESCUE

Irreplaceable Playbills, Costumes And Ephemera Rescued From Coconut Grove

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The Philadelphia Vintage Book & Ephemera Fair!

2/3: The Philadelphia Vintage Book & Ephemera Fair! (The Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel)

 

PHILADELPHIA, PA, FEBRUARY 3, 2013 -- Flamingo Eventz, LLC is pleased to announce that after a number of years, Philadelphia will once again host a fine Vintage Book & Ephemera Fair. It will be held on Sunday February 3, and presents some of the finest vintage Book & Ephemera Dealers in America & Canada.

Yes, this is Super Bowl Sunday - this is a great way to start the day of festivities and you'll be home in plenty of time for the kick-off!

Being held at the Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel in the heart of Philadelphia, PA, this is an important show for Pennsylvania and all mid-Atlantic & Northeast area book lovers. This is the only major Vintage Book & Ephemera event held in the greater Philadelphia region and offers an unparalleled opportunity for Book & Ephemera lovers. Members of ABAA, LIABDA, MARIAB, MABA, ILAB, and other prominent exhibitors will gather here to present an outstanding array of fine, rare & unusual old books, along with postcards, poetry, prose, political, social, historical, children's series, maps, autographs, prints, posters, World's Fair, ephemera, and much, much more. Collectors, scholars, students, dealers, and decorators will flock to this wonderful event for the best selection, wonderful finds, and rare treasures found only here.

Date/Hours: Sunday February 3, 2013, 10am-4pm
Location: The Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel, 201 North 17th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103.
Admission: Adults: $6, Young Collectors 12-21: $3, under 12: free w/paid Adult.
Appraisals: By John Bruno, star of Market Warriors on PBS, and guest appraisers at $5/Item.
Directions: Right off I-76 & I-676, corner Race Street. Check our website: FlamingoEventz.com for easily downloaded maps.
Miscellaneous: Food & refreshment available at the Hotel restaurant during show hours. Parking: On-site and within short walking distance.
Information: For Dealer or Customer information, please call or click 603.509.2639 / FlamingoEventz@metrocast.net

Background: Flamingo Eventz, LLC presents the finest, most innovative, successful, and respected Book & Ephemera Fairs in the Northeast. The Brunos have over 25 years experience as antique dealers and over 18 years experience as professional show promoters. They are members of the Antiques & Collectibles National Association (ACNA), and John Bruno is an antiques appraiser and television personality who can be seen on the new series MARKET WARRIORS on PBS. MARKET WARRIORS, a new antiques competition series from the producers of ANTIQUES ROADSHOW, airs on PBS Monday nights at 9pm/8c.

Editors: For further information, photographs, descriptions, or dealer biographies, please contact: TINA or JOHN BRUNO at FLAMINGO EVENTZ, LLC.
Phone: 603.509.2639 / E-Mail: FlamingoEventz@metrocast.net / Web: FlamingoEventz.com.

• Location: The Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel

Sale Continues This Week On My Etsy

Giving Bits Of Paper (& Other Oddities) New Life

Etsy Sale this  continues this week and gets even better!
Through Saturday, February 9, 2013, save 20% when using the code: 20OFFDISCOUNT

Vintage Photos, Maps, Books & Art are just some of the things you will find browsing thru 9 Miles Of Ephemera & Antiques on Etsy!

Hope you find some goodies to add to your collection or for use in scrap-booking, art, & craft projects !
Cheers
cdavid
Proprietor
9 Miles Of Wonder on Etsy

The definition of Ephemera comes from the Greek 'epi' (about) and 'hemeris' (day). Basically the "stuff about the day." Ephemera is pronounced 'efem'mera' . The contempory definition of ephemera is, 'something short lived or transitory' especially all types of paper documents both printed or handwritten produced for a specific purpose and normally intended for disposal.

Paper Ephemera has been well documented in John Lewis ''Printed Ephemera," (the 20th century Bible of Ephemera) where John documents Ephemera from as early as the 16th century to present times.

Ephemera is a relatively new area of collecting, and the definition is still under some discussion. The current generally accepted definition is the collecting of any man made paper object that is created with no intention of permanence. If it is made of paper, and most people would throw it away after use, then it is ephemera. Examples include magazines, newspapers, comics, certificates, old maps, old letters,sports cards, postcards, & even photographs.

 It was Maurice Rickards who first articulated the definition now accepted by ephemerists the world over as: "the minor transient documents of everyday life." And more than ever today, ephemera is being used by amateur and professional genealogists as a major tool in researching family histories.

You never know where those notes, scribbles, to"to-do" lists will end up someday.

More about Maurice Rickards

The World's Principal Air Routes 1920

The World's Principal Air Routes 1920

From Retronaut.com  comes this wonderful map of the Principal Air Routes for the year 1920.

This map is originally from The People’s Atlas, produced by the London Geographical Institute.
One amusing aspect of this map is that hardly any these international air routes actually existed in 1920! The Atlantic wasn’t crossed by air until 1927.*** The Pacific was much later. Air routes in 1920 were more along the lines of London-Paris, or perhaps San Francisco-Los Angeles. So these are essentially “air routes of the future.”
I especially like the notation of how long it would take to get from London to any point on the map, if you were going 100 miles per hour. The images of the latest airplanes are also pretty cool.
UPDATE NOTE: ***A reader correctly points out:
“The first transatlantic flight had in fact occurred by the time of this map’s publication. The US Navy’s NC-4 flew across the Atlantic with a refueling in the Azores in May of 1919 It’s pictured above as the Curtiss Seaplane.. And see that R34 airship in the picture? That vessel made the trip a month later. While most of the transoceanic routes depicted were only notional in 1920, it’s not as if the Atlantic was some uncrossable barrier. In 1927, Lindbergh made the first solo non-stop flight, but plenty of other planes had made the journey before him.”

Source : AirMinded: Airpower and British Society, 1908-1941

Vintage Baltimore

When I found this 1877 Atlas of Baltimore County, it was buried under a pile of newspapers in a box lot.
The cover looked disappointing, but then I opened the pages to find all of the interior was beautifully preserved.
There are over 80 pages of maps, etchings, and data sheets on the County.
The maps include:
City of Baltimore
13, two page maps of the Districts
County of Baltimore two page map
State of Maryland
Eastern & Western Hemisphere Maps
United States & Territories Map (2 pages)
Plus 3 “Views” pages with drawings of:
T Flory & Cost Carriage Manufactory
Goshen Property of Benjamin I. Gardensville
German Lutheran Church of Gardensville
The data sheets (on the District pages) are great for those interested in genealogy as they have lists which include the names and occupations of prominent business owners in the area at the time of printing.
As opening fodder for the blog I am going to re-post a few of my favorites from my previous website.
The Atlas is available for sale as a whole or you may purchase individual, prints on high quality, acid free paper or canvas. Please contact me for more info on ordering or visit here to see the full atlas.

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