AIDS Ephemera

July 17, 2008 By Tom Murphy Leave a Comment

The History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine has announced its newest website, AIDS Ephemera, which is based on an exhibit of that name at the National Library of Medicine.Â The exhibit ran from November 2002 to June 2003.

Aids Ephemera cartoon 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.

These ephemera objects, produced by government health departments as well as private organizations, became an important medium for messages of awareness, prevention, compassion, and responsibility.

Head on over to the website and have a look, I guarantee you will find it interesting.

Iâ€™m Tom Murphy and thanks for helping me give Ephemera the encore it deserves.

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About Tom Murphy
My name is Tom Murphy and I’m becoming more and more a full time Blogger - trying to master this new and dynamic medium called blogging. Back in the late 1990s I found the Internet and was not sure what it was.. or where it was going. I worked at the time for IBM and we had what was called then PROFS - the Professional Office System. I didn’t know it at the time but that was perhaps my beginning interest in blogging. As I learn more and more about Blogging.. and Wordpress.. and my other passion - Ephemera, I hope to be able to blog about it to my followers here on this blogsite. Stay with me for what I hope will be a fun adventure for us all.