Ephemera
File:Stallion Phoenomenon.jpg
A 1798 printed broadside advertising the availability of a stallion for horse-breeding
Ephemera are temporary written or printed matters. It covers a lot of things: trade cards, bookmarks, postcards, posters, many variants of the advertising etc.
This term is originally used to mayfly or something transitory or short-lived.[1]
Ephemera Media
- Ephemera Collection; QV; Advertising; 1850-1 Wellcome L0031705.jpg
A historical example of ephemera
- Haft.jpg
The mayfly Ephemera danica
- Trade card for Esther Burney fan shop.jpg
A piece of ephemera circa 1749–1751, around the time Samuel Johnson may have coined the term
- Young Temperance Volunteer's diploma.jpg
The temperance movement generated a vast amount of ephemera
- Coughs and Sneezes Spread Diseases - British Ministry of Health.jpg
20th-century ephemera from the UK
References
- ↑ "ephemera". The Free Dictionary.