Ephemera (general object genre)
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Items created, manufactured, or used for a specific, limited use; typically intended to be used for a short period and discarded thereafter, although ephemera is often actually collected.
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Clippings file of the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection
Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 89
Abstract:
The Clippings File of the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection includes pamphlets and clippings documenting the African American experience in the twentieth century. The collection especially highlights the achievements of individual African Americans, the work of community and education organizations, and areas such as film, theater, music, sports, politics, and civil rights. The clippings were collected primarily by Langston Hughes, James Weldon and Grace Nail Johnson, Ollie Jewel...
Dates:
circa 1920-1993
Katherine S. Dreier papers / Société Anonyme archive
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 101
Abstract:
The Katherine S. Dreier portion of the collection contains correspondence between Dreier and artists and friends (including Constantin Alajalov, David Burli︠u︡k, Marcel Duchamp, Wassily Kandinsky, Man Ray, and Ted Shawn); and art-related organizations (including the Arts Club of Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum, the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art).There is some correspondence regarding art purchases and the packaging and shipping of art, such as that...
Dates:
1818-1952, bulk 1920-1951
Haymarket Affair collection
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 516
Abstract:
The bulk of the collection consists of the papers of Illinois State's Attorney Julius S. Grinnell, who led the prosecution in the Haymarket trial in 1886-1887. These include trial evidence, notes and drafts of legal briefs, personal papers, and printed ephemera. The collection also includes a few items that were added to Grinnell's papers in the 1950s-60s by collector Frederick B. Adams. Trial evidence is chiefly in German, and consists of manuscripts, correspondence, leaflets, and other...
Dates:
1872-1901
William Helfand collection of medical ephemera
Collection
Call Number: Pam Coll 8
Abstract:
The collection contains printed ephemera related to medicine and pharmacy either arranged in albums by William Helfand or donated in loose form. These include trade cards (some on marijuana and street drugs), postcards, advertisements in various formats for patent medicines and devices, advertisements for cancer cures, playing cards, cards of famous scientists and physicians, stock certificates for pharmaceutical companies, photographs of old pharmacies, pharmacy prescription envelopes,...
Dates:
1817-2007
Joseph Norton Ireland papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 621
Abstract:
The collection contains material relating to Ireland's research and writings on American theater and personal papers. Forty-nine volumes in the collection contain clippings, printed ephemera, such as playbills, autograph manuscript material, letters, and other material, as well as lists of theatrical performances and lists and profiles of stage performers. The collection features drafts, proofs, and an extra-illustrated version of Ireland's major publication, Records of the New York Stage...
Dates:
1770-1902
Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection
Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 54
Abstract:
The Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection consists chiefly of photographs dating from circa 1850 to 1970, but also includes printed illustrations, original artwork, documents and printed ephemera that provide a record of black history in the United States for the period circa 1770 to 1970. The focus is on African-American subjects, but the collection also includes the work of black photographers, as well as images of white men and women, many of whom were associated with the...
Dates:
1728-1991, bulk 1850-1970
Saul Steinberg papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1053
Abstract:
The Saul Steinberg Papers consist of correspondence, artwork, professional papers, personal papers, photographs, published artwork, clippings, collected and source material, realia, financial papers, and audio-visual material documenting artist Saul Steinberg’s professional and personal activities.
Dates:
1417-2001, bulk 1931-1999