Resources
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Significant Australian Collections of Ephemera
State Library West. Australia
State Library NSW
State Library South Australia
State Library Queensland
Australian Queer Archives
Monash University
Significant International Collections of Ephemera
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford, UK.
The Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford, contain the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera, one of the largest and most important collections of printed ephemera in the world.
Library of Congress, Washington, USA
The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, films & videos, photographs, manuscripts et al. in its collections. The Library is the main research arm of the U.S. Congress and the home of the U.S. Copyright Office.
Book and Published Sources
The Encyclopedia of Ephemera: A Guide to the fragmentary documents of everyday life of the collector, curator and historian
Maurice Richards
The British Library, 2000
Symbols of Australia, 20th Anniversary Edition
Mimmo Cozzolino
CIS Educational, Australia, 2000
An invaluable historical and visual reference guide to Australian trademarks.
Fragments of the Everyday: A Book of Australian Ephemera
Richard Stone
National Library of Australia, Canberra, 2005
An overview of the breadth and significance of the national ephemera collection.
Carter’s Yesterday’s Paper: Collecting Ephemera in Australia
Vivienne O’Neill
John Murphy Ltd Ltd, NSW, 2007
An illustrated and informative guide to collecting ephemera in Australia ‘within reach of the average collector’.
