Once again… I’ve been wandering the Internet.
Here’s an interesting fellow in Portland, Oregon. Ward Jenkins is an illustrator with a blog called The Ward-O-Matic.
His blog has an interesting display of seasonal Ephemera that he has collected, such as the page on the left which is from a Christmas 1958 booklet of carols for Christmastime.
It was printed by a company with an interesting name… The Kalamazoo Vegetable Parchment Company.
Ward tells us a bit about the illustrator as well.. he did a number of automobile ads during the 60′s and 70′s, and his work is part of an exhibit called Drawing Power: Motor City Ad Art in the Age of Muscle and Chrome.
Delving deeper into Wards links you will find his bio which reads well, but even more interesting is his Flickr ephemera photostream. He has a number of sets including one collection called “Old Things”. It’s primarily vintage illustrations from various sources. How about this 1956 fun booklet (right) on cooking and meal planning – a key to better meals?
As we come to the end of the year… and some might argue the end of the first decade of the 21st Century… let me take this opportunity to thank all of our readers and those who follow us closely. It has been a pleasure creating and updating this blog and I look forward to even more postings in 2010. Oh, by the way, look for a new Encore-Ephemera shop in 2010. More on that early in the new year.
Peace on earth, good will to all…
I’m Tom Murphy and thanks for helping me give Ephemera the Encore it deserves.
Tom
Have a look at my eBay Ephemera site
or have a look at my eBay Auction sites
(Due to travel, there may not be any items listed at this point in time)
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“Bonhams celebrated a £3.7 million result at their annual sale of Important Collectors’ Motor Cars & Fine Automobilia on Sunday at London’s Olympia….
This is just one of the items in that collection. It’s Muskie’s “Honorary Membership” card in the Franklin County Fish and Game Association from 1956. Over the next few weeks we will attempt to highlight some of the other items… which at the moment seem a bit difficult to sort through. It’s troubling to note that their website says that “Over the past few years, an effort has been underway to reduce the amount of non-historically significant material in the Edmund S. Muskie papers.” Let’s hope they don’t just put them in the trash bin.
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