Illustrator Mark English (b. 1933) holds the distinction of being the most awarded illustrator in the history of the Society of Illustrat...

This past weekend I had a surprise gift from my blogging friend Gina Garner of Art and Alfalfa . It seems she had an unannounced contest th...

I've been rereading an entertaining and absorbing book from 1952, Duveen , by S. N. Behrman. It's the biography of Joseph Duveen, l...

While silks are not technically ephemera, they were among the many premiums distributed by early 20th century tobacco companies. I don'...

The image above must have been shockingly racey and sexy when it was printed in the 1880s. No lady would have smoked in public then — or ba...

click to enlarge any of these three Horseshoe Cross Bar was a cut plug tobacco. (It appears that in the 1800s, just as today, cut plug w...

Ephemera, as I've mentioned before, is paper memorabilia that was never intended to be saved. This is a wonderful example of ephemera —...