In my spare time (?) I like to wander around the Internet and find other persons interested in various different forms of Ephemera.
Today’s wanderings took me to the website of Frank DeFreitas. Frank’s blog is entitled Antiquarian Holographica – with a subtitle of Holography Ephemera: Curating, Archiving and Preservation. Frank tels us that
“I have been collecting laser & holography related ephemera for over 30 years. I am very interested in the curating and preservation of these materials for future generations, and as a historical archive of the field”.
In his latest post he shows us the cover of the National Geographic magazine from March 1984 which contained a hologram of the American Eagle.
In addition to sharing his collections with his blog visitors, he provides a lot of commentary on the history of holography . . . and the history of the individual pieces.
Head on over to Frank’s Blog and learn a bit more about Holographic Ephemera. I think you’ll enjoy your visit to his site.
I’m Tom Murphy and thanks for helping me give Ephemera the encore it deserves.
Tom
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The University of Washington Libraries has created a digital library of leaflets and newspapers that were distributed on the campus during the decades of the 1960s and 1970s. They reflect the social environment and political activities of the youth movement in Seattle during that period.
The old postcards and letters remind Gisela Withers of simpler times and places. Lois Ottinger is a sucker for Victorian die cuts she transfers onto porcelain pins. And George Phipps collects anything associated with his employer for the past 39 years: the Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., better known as A&P.
I suppose what caught my eye was his review of the Friden Model STW-10 Electro-Mechanical Calculator which is the first calculator I remember from visiting my fathers office in New York City as a small boy. I was fascinated by how it clicked and clanged and moved up and down .. and eventually was able to add 2+2 (and of course far more complicated calculations).
The materials shown on the website were drawn from the Library’s Prints & Photographs collection which includes buttons, posters, cards, comic books, and even lunch boxes.
But a Phoenix, Oregon company – named 
The British Library now owns some 5,000 items from his collection, originally purchased by the British Museum in 1895. And from what we can learn on the internet the collection appears to be quite interesting. I recommend anyone interested in Ephemera take a look at the 
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