I’ve found another site, this time in the UK, that I think may be of interest to our Ephemera fans.
Delicious Industries is an independent design studio based in Brighton, UK. Their main site is deliciousindustries.com but if you’d like to see a lot of their interesting ephemera you need to go to their reference box.
This is the item that first caught my eye on their reference set page. Their description of the item reads:
War-time grocery bag The grocery bag would have been used in local shops to hold small individual items. It’s in really good condition and I love the text: “In War Time as in Time of Peace, We aim to give Quality, Service, Satisfaction. The private trader considers you all the time.”
As they say, it’s funny how even back then value and importance of independent shops was being promoted.
Another item that caught my eye was this page from a British Highway Code Book. It’s a 1954 edition and the diagrams are great. You need to look at all the pages which are on the site. It’s an 8 or 9 page pamphlet and is in very good condition for its age. I particularly like the “Bobbie” hat on the officer directing traffic.
There are some 47 pieces of Ephemera in the reference box and all are quite interesting. You should definitely pay the site a visit.
I’m Tom Murphy and thanks for helping me give Ephemera the encore it deserves.
Tom
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I haven’t either… but I certainly enjoy looking at her Ephemera collection on Flickr.
What I am sure of is that she has hundreds and hundreds of items of Ephemera on Flickr. If you look at her upload rate (available on Flickr) you’ll see that she added 2100 images in the month of February 2009 alone! That alone is amazing to me!.
Due to limited space, and of course respecting her copyrights, I have only shown a few of her items here.. but I urge you to go over to Flickr and have a look at her extensive collection.
The article talks about sheet music for songs from times of war. The one depicted here is called “I’d Be Proud to be the Mother of a Soldier.” It shows a white haired lady with a lacy collar and black dress. She’s holding onto the hand of a soldier in WWI uniform. The words to the song lament that their son has to go off ‘to fight’ and they ‘pray for peace.’
Sandy then she goes on to discuss the main culprit that causes paper to deteriorate and yellow.. and that is acid. She talks about some commercially available products that are available as a spray to neutralize the acid and slow down the aging process as well as improve storage methods. She says that while this is not a permanent solution, it can help extend the life of a document.
Under the management of Frédy and Franco Knie, Circus Knie has maintained its unique position in Europe; it has also been at the vanguard of animal care, at a time when some circuses still had a hard time adapting to the audience’s change of sensitivity regarding the way animals were kept in traveling circuses. 
Today I found a wonderful collection of some 15 “
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