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I love ephemera. When people are flyering on the street, I accept what is handed to me with pleasure. Not to make use of their content, but because there is something magical to me about preserving the transitory, prolonging its life, looking at it with long-term eyes.
I have a favour to ask of you folks
I have been offered the opportunity to exhibit my work. I was wondering if you had one or two pieces from my stream that you are very fond of… enough that perhaps you might actually want said pieces on your wall? Your input would very much help me pick and choose for the show, as I have not really thought of my pieces from a show or portfolio perspective until now.
A rather dark photo showing a room decorated for Halloween. Handwriting on the back of the photo identifies the scene as a "Halloween party at apartment of Helen and Bert Pour, Cleveland, Ohio," but there's no date.
Note, among other decorations, the witch above the lamp on the left, the spider web at the window in the center, and the jack-o'-lanterns above the window and on the fireplace mantle on the right.
This was part of a lot of paper items that I picked up at the Scott's Antique show in Columbus, Ohio on 11.29.08
"Wishing You a Happy New Year."
Postmarked in Madison, Wisconsin, January 4, 1910.
For similar postcards, see A Happy New Year and 1910—A Happy New Year.
My Still Sunday
Week 13 - Ephemera
edit based on Kim's preset 'Matterfact'
Be Still One Year
Month 1 - Top down
From my old photograph & postcard collection,
old stamps from my husband's postage stamp collection,
dried lavender ...
More from my Dad's odds and ends. This is apparently a Stirling silver charm from The Most Cheery Order of Merrythoughts which were sold by the Daily Chronical to raise money for children's charities in the 1930s. There is one in the British Museum apparently. On the back is an issue number and address in EC4 to return it to if lost. The idea you would have it on your key ring and it would always be returned.
A business card dating to the late nineteenth or early twentieth century.
Typefaces: Bailey Shaded, earlier known as Ornamented No. 1513, c. 1854 ("A. W. Davis"), Raphael, c. 1885 ("Carriages"), Gothic No. 122 ("Wagons and Sleighs," "No. 1523 North Salina Street"), Clarendon/Ionic ("Syracuse, N.Y."). Thanks to Florian Hardwig for identifying the typefaces.
A. W. Davis,
Manufacturer of Carriages, Wagons and Sleighs.
No. 1523 North Salina Street, Syracuse, N.Y.
It rained all day, then cleared for just a moment. The rainbow disappeared in a few minutes as more clouds rolled in. I was fortunate to grab enough shots to create this panorama.
"A Happy New Year."
The handwritten date on the other side of this postcard is January 1, 1910.
For similar cards, see Wishing You a Happy New Year and 1910—A Happy New Year.
Cairo - El-Tabbaneh Street.
Cairo - General view with the Mosques of Sultan Hassan and El-Rifai.
Egypt - Landscape near the Pyramids.
Cairo - At the abords of the Moslem Necropoles.
Cairo - The Citadelle.