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The word ephemera is a collector's jargon covers a wide range of subject matter including items that never meant to be collected in the first place.Here are the basic examples:
Bills- an invoice or statement of charges.from an aesthetic point of view, bill headings can be very attractive.
In the early 1900's bill headings were considered exotic,showing steel engravings combined with copperplate handwriting.
Virtually every businessman or tradesman in those days had an engraving of some sort for his trade on his bill headings. very early bills are mostly handwritten. one , in the british museum, details the payment for workers on one of the pyramids.
Apart from the embellishments,such bills are interesting is that it can give you the idea into the costs and services in different parts of the world.
Calendars-the collection of calendars reached its popularity beginning with marilyn monroe sprawled in red satin in the 1950's. different types of calendars like circular dials,calendar medallions or calendars on a glazed ceramic plates are also collected.
Menus- in similar ways to bills and invoices. They tell us what people ate and what it cost them and it was quite conveniently dated.
Menus from the last century were interesting because in the background they embellished it with topical compositions like in the times of war, it was common that menu headings pictured battle scenes.
Other ephemera items are travel, sports,concert tickets. and of course posters...such as shown here. Its a cloth poster of an early airline ad.
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