Back in 1892 The F. Weyerhaeuser, a 140-foot sternwheeler built for towing logs, was christened by the Weyerhaeuser and Denkman Company.  Many years later, in 1923 actually, Weyerhaeuser’s first ocean shipping operation was launched with the purchase of two freighters, the Ponoma and the Hanley.  The ships were used to carry lumber from the Pacific Northwest to the East Coast.  And then, another 10 years later, the Weyerhaeuser Steamship Company was established in Newark, New Jersey.

I mention all this because a woman in New York, by the name of Melissa Ring, has a terrific vintage paper site known as Attic Paper and one of the wonderful Ephemeral items she has for sale is a 1935 Weyerhaeuser Line Steamship Schedule.  It’s an original vintage schedule issued on March 6, 1935. She mentions that it was a folded mailer that has the recipients address on the reverse side. It measures approximately 8″ x 8.5″ when opened and is in excellent condition.

Melissa has put a great deal of effort into her store.. and it shows.  Not only does she have some very interesting pieces of Ephemera for sale… her overall design and look of the store is very appealing.  She obviously has a graphic designer/web designer background.

Her items are categorized into seven different groupings as follows:

• Vintage Magazine Ads
• Antique Engravings/Prints
• Vintage Booklets/Catalogs
• Vintage Recipe Booklets
• Old Postcards/Trade Cards
• Old Magazine Articles
• Vintage Magazine Covers
• Miscellaneous Ephemera

The two that I have shown here are from the Miscellaneous Ephemera section, and there you will find quite a number of other interesting, unusual and wonderful Ephemera items.

But be sure to visit all of her categories as you will find any number of items that may interest you.  I for example found a wonderful article dated1872 about the New York Harbor Police.  It even includes illustrations of the Police Boat “Seneca” and the interior of a junk shop which was a favorite rendezvous for thieves on the East River.  You may soon find that gone from her inventory… when I make a purchase.  All of her items by the way seem to be listed at very reasonable prices, given the age and historical value of the items.  And her shipping rate?  $1.99 for all items shipped within the US and Canada.

For those of you into Vintage Movie items, like my friend Cliff Aliperti of  Things and Other Stuff, you’ll want to have a look at Melissa’s Vintage Movie Ads section where you’ll find a large group of movie memorabilia.  Did someone say Sandra Dee from Tammy Tell Me True??

So head on over to Attic Paper and have a look. You’ll be glad you did.

I’m Tom Murphy and thanks for helping me give Ephemera the Encore it deserves.

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For those of you in Pennsylvania, you may want to head on over to the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission auction will begin at 9 a.m. tomorrow (Saturday, March 6, 2010) at Ziegler Auction Co., 1550 Sand Hill Rd., Hummelstown, Pa. Doors will open at 7 a.m. for a preview of items.

The auction catalog contains 1,600 items in 500 lots gleaned from seven of 26 museums and historic sites across the commonwealth.

According to http://www.philly.com

“Then there are the model trains – some handmade to scale – and real railroad memorabilia that are generating regional interest, said Jay Ziegler, owner of the auction house: Box after box of American Flyer trains, tracks, transformers, and miniature accessories for model railroad layouts, and a mysterious oversize model of a truss bridge.

There are plenty of railroad ephemera: miniature soaps, matchbooks, and equipment plates, brochures announcing the first Metroliners circa 1975, a handful of 1980s-era SEPTA signs, and train schedules for long-gone lines, including one for the Reading Co. noting a regular stop at the George School.

Railroad historians say rail-related collectibles have long been popular, particularly in Pennsylvania.

“Pennsylvania is a railroad state in every sense of the word,” said Maryland-based railroad historian John Hankey. “Even if people are not riding trains anymore, they are still connected to them.”

As I have an interest in both Ephemera and model trains etc. I am really sorry that I can not make this sale… but for those of you in the Pennsylvania area… and not snowed in… you might want to take a look at this auction.

I’m Tom Murphy and thanks for helping me give Ephemera the Encore it deserves.

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Jeff Kisseloff is an author from New York, having written five history books, three of them oral histories.

• You Must Remember This: An Oral History of Manahttan From the 1890s to World War II
• The Box: An Oral History of Television, 1920 to 1961
• Generation on Fire: Voices of Protest From the 1960s

In the course of researching these books, he came across a lot of original material- and he is now in the process of sharing it on the Internet  via his blog.

I spent quite a bit of time wandering around his pages and found much of it quite interesting – from an Ephemera point of view.

This for example is an application for membership in the Workers Party of America… which Jeff tells us was actually the above-ground unit of the Communist Party USA formed after its leadership was forced underground in the 1920s by the then goon squad, also known as the Justice Department — ironically.

How about this Spiro Agnew record album entitled “Spiro’s Greatest Hits”?  It was not music… but rather some of Spiro’s speeches about which Jeff says “he does offer a delightfully delicious delicacy of draconian drivel on a number of topics then on the lips of everyone in 1968 and 1969, such as  student demonstrators (“impudent, elite snobs”) and of course, the liberal press, those “nattering nabobs of negativism” (who were also, “hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.”).  “The Speeches that Stirred America”.

And finally, how about this one.  It’s a station card sent out by WNBT.  Apparently stations sent these cards out every week to every person who owned a TV set in New York. There were so few sets out there, they kept a list of everyone who owned one.  Pay particular attention to the date of this card – December 7, 1941. The date of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

There are a number of other interesting bits of Ephemera on Jeff’s blog… and I am sure over time he will be posting more.  Take a wander over to the Kisseloff Collection blog and have a look for yourself.  I know I enjoyed it.. perhaps you will as well.  And while you are there, have a look at Jeff’s other blog about a fellow named Phil Rosner… a fellow who fought a good fight in the Austrian Anti-Fascist Resistance.  There’s a bit of Ephemera there as well.

I’m Tom Murphy and thanks for helping me give Ephemera the Encore it deserves.

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The Recent Antiquarian Acquisitions at the Lewis Walpole Library blog features new additions of early materials to the Lewis Walpole Library’s collection. This blog is still a work in progress and visitors should expect stylistic, format, and content alterations through the near future. Suggestions and comments are welcome.

Perusing  through the site I found any number of interesting pieces of Ephemera… such as the letter shown to the left.  Written in 1789 it accompanied a copy of  Horace Walpole’s Postscript to the Royal and Noble Authors in London.  In case you don’t know who Horace Walpole was (as I didn’t) he was an English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and politician in England.

The Lewis Walpole Library is a research library for eighteenth-century studies and the prime source for the study of Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill. Its collections include significant holdings of eighteenth-century British books, manuscripts, prints, drawings and paintings, as well as important examples of the decorative arts. Housed in an historic frame house in Farmington and given to Yale by Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis and Annie Burr Lewis, the Lewis Walpole Library is a department of Yale University Library, open to researchers by appointment.

While not entirely Ephemera related,  it’s worth a visit.

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What a terrific title for a blog!

A woman in Texas named Joyce Lindner runs the Postcard Emporium and is an active seller on eCrater. Per her blog:

Often postcards have just a bit more story to tell than what their fronts and backs reveal. I love researching their history and providing more interest to the already fascinating hobby of collecting postcards known as deltiology.

I know that there are a number of Post Card collectors who follow my blog.. so I wanted to introduce you to Joyce. Over in her eCrater store you will find a large selection of US view post cards including publishers such as Raphael Tuck & Sons, Edward H Mitchell and Curt Teich.

The postcard at the left from “Old Wyoming” and the one on the right were two that caught my eye. The one on the right dates way back to 1910 when California was admitted to the Union.  Her eCrater listing shows both the front and the back of this relatively well preserved piece of Ephemera.. and I was particularly interested in the wonderful handwriting of the author Pat who sent the card to her friend Constance in Pennylvania. I wonder how long it took to make its way from San Francisco to Redburn? Despite being 100 years old, it still holds up well.

If vintage advertising is your area of interest, Joyce even has a section of her store dedicated to advertising postcards.  It was fun to see so many corporate names that have bit the dust over the years.  Take a moment and visit Joyce’s shop, I am sure you will be pleasantly surprised.

If perhaps one of your other hobbies is reading well done blogs, I suggest you visit Joyce’s Blog.  In addition to great information about vintage postcards, Joyce has some wonderful graphics.  How about this one that accompanies a blog about male gossip?   As Joyce says “The stereotype of women being the only gender who enjoys a bit of gossip is one of the reasons I just love this postcard.”  This postcard was reproduced from the October Cover of the Successful Farming Publishing Company of Des Moines, Iowa It dates back to 1914.

So if you are either a postcard lover/collector, or a fan of well done blogs, I’ve given you what I think are some good spots to peruse.

I’m Tom Murphy and thanks for helping me give Ephemera the Encore it deserves.

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I keep coming across collections of Ephemera in public libraries and museums.. and want to bring them to your attention.

The most recent one I found is at the Tamiment Library at the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives (NYU Libraries). Here’s a description from their site:

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University form a unique, internationally-known center for scholarly research on Labor and the Left. The primary focus is the complex relationship between trade unionism and progressive politics and how this evolved over time. Archival, print, photograph, film, and oral history collections describe the history of the labor movement and how it related to the broader struggle for economic, social, and political change.

In 1977 the Robert F. Wagner Archives was established as a joint program of the New York City Central Labor Council and the Tamiment Library. The Wagner is the designated repository for the records of the Council’s more than 200 member unions. Today the Library has an extraordinary research collection documenting the history of organized labor in New York and the workers who built the City.

Tamiment has one of the finest research collections in the country documenting the history of radical politics: socialism, communism, anarchism, utopian experiments, the cultural left, the New Left, and the struggle for civil rights and civil liberties. It is the repository for the Archives of Irish America, the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives, and a growing Asian American labor collection.

You can Read more about the history of the Tamiment Library through this link.

The collection that caught my eye is called the Tamiment Library Printed Ephemera Collections and consist of some 1 million items, including broadsides, leaflets, flyers, manifestoes, reports, reprints, serials, clippings, pamphlets, and internal documents generated by a wide spectrum of labor and left-wing organizations.

Two of some 350 or so items are shown here. Looking through the rest was very interesting and I recommend that you take a look. I’m sure you will find it interesting.

There are a number of other Ephemera collections at the library which I again recommend you peruse. You will hopefully find it as interesting as I did.

I’m Tom Murphy and thanks for helping me give Ephemera the Encore it deserves.

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The Alameda Library in California has a very interesting video in its Ephemera section entitled “Neptune Beach Revisited”. It’s narrated by a fellow named Dan X. Solo who apparently is one of a very few living people who can remember and reminisce about the famous amusement park of the depression days. He also talks a bit about the signage at the park.. and the wish that he had collected some of it – what we would surely call Ephemera! I’ve embedded the video here, but be sure to visit the site as it has a lot more to offer than this video.

I’m Tom Murphy and thanks for helping me give Ephemera the Encore it deserves.

Have a look at my eBay Ephemera store
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After many years of interest in the area of Ephemera, and after collecting literally thousands of vintage magazine ads, maps, posters, timetables, cruise ship menus and the like, I have decided it is time to share some of these wonderful items with others.

I have looked at several options including eBay, Etsy, Bonanzle and others and decided that eBay still gets the most traffic and as a result, hopefully the most buyers. So I have opened a store on eBay as Encore-Ephemera and stocked it initially with some 250+ interesting and vintage magazine ads. I have also created my own Zen Cart which currently only has about 100 items and maintained my Bonanzle booth which has some 450+ items. Needless to say, there are several duplications.. where the same item appears in each marketplace. My intent of course is to have all of the items available in all 3 venues. That will take some time as I also have many many more items to add to the inventory.

Sales at eBay and Bonanzle of course have their associated fees, so I encourage you to make your purchases in my Zen Cart and in return for your buying there, you can enjoy a 15% discount, simply by indicating the coupon code EEBLOG in the remarks section when you go through the checkout. If you find something on eBay or Bonanzle that is not in the Zen Cart, just let me know by email and we will be happy to make that item available in the store. Shipping on all 3 venues is currently FREE! So now is the time to make your purchases.

I’ve got a lot of work ahead of me as I continue to build each marketplace and get them stocked equally but that is a challenge I look forward to. And I look forward to helping you and others find the items you are wanting. Of course if you are looking for some specific item that you don’t find in any of the venues, let me know and I’ll do my best to try and source it for you.

Happy Shopping! I hope we can provide you with some wonderful Ephemera, to help move my collectibles.. to your collection.

I’m Tom Murphy and thanks for helping me give Ephemera the Encore it deserves.

Have a look at my eBay Ephemera store
or at my Bonanzle Booth
or at my Zen Cart

I’ve even got an eBay Auction site for collectibles

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