Ephemera-related web links
The websites are sorted by broad theme, with general links first.
These links were checked in April 2013. Please contact us if a link does not work or you have suggestions for other related links.
For more ephemera related resources (tagged by subject), please see The John Johnson Collection's Ephemera Resources blog.
General | Advertising | Entertainment | Formal Ephemera
Political, Social, Religious and Economic History | Transport
General ephemera-related links
- Centre for Ephemera Studies http://www.reading.ac.uk/typography/research/typ-researchcentres.aspx
- Evanion Collection (British Library) http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/evancoll/
- Ephemera Society http://www.ephemera-society.org.uk/
- Ephemera Society of America http://www.ephemerasociety.org/
- Library of Congress American Memory http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
- Online exhibitions (can be searched by ‘ephemera’ http://www.sil.si.edu/SILPublications/Online-Exhibitions/
Advertising
- The History of Advertising Trust http://www.hatads.org.uk/
- The Museum of Brands (Robert Opie) http://www.museumofbrands.com/
- Huntley and Palmers archive http://www.huntleyandpalmers.org.uk/
- Smithsonian Digital Collections: http://www.sil.si.edu/tradeliterature/ (includes Sewing machines, seed catalogues)
- American advertising (Duke University) http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/eaa/
See also: Advertising indexes
Entertainment
- Theatre Programmes (V & A) http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/theatre_performance/
- Concert programmes (AHRC) http://www.concertprogrammes.org.uk/
- Concert life in 19th century London project http://www.concertlifeproject.com/
- National Fairground Archive (University of Sheffield) http://www.nfa.dept.shef.ac.uk/
- Music Covers (Spelman Collection, University of Reading) http://www.vads.ac.uk/collections/SCVMC.html
- Scottish playbills (National Library of Scotland) http://digital.nls.uk/playbills/index.html
See also: Entertainment indexes
Formal Ephemera
- Scottish broadsides http://digital.nls.uk/broadsides/index.html
- French 18th century Trade Cards at Waddesdon http://www.waddesdon.org.uk/collection/special-projects/trade-cards
See also: Form indexes
Political, Social, Religious and Economic History
- Pamphlets at the London School of Economics http://www2.lse.ac.uk/library/collections/pamphlets/
- Empire (British Library Learning Texts in Context) http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/texts/empire/empire.html
- Commonwealth and Latin American Archives Project (Institute for Commonwealth Studies and Institute for the Study of the Americas http://polarch.sas.ac.uk/
- Slavery (Samuel J May anti-slavery collection, Cornell University) http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/m/mayantislavery//
- American political history (Cornell University) http://cidc.library.cornell.edu/political/
- American Campaign Literature (UCLA) http://digital.library.ucla.edu/campaign/
- Conservative Party Archive (Bodleian) http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/cpa and http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/cpa/online-resources/posters-collection
- National Archives http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/imagelibrary/ and http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/
- Imperial War Museum http://www.iwm.org.uk/server/show/nav.1299
- People's History Museum http://www.phm.org.uk/
- Modern Records Centre http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/
- British Cartoon Archive http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/
- British Museum http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database.aspx e.g. 27505 Satirical prints, 15694 trade cards
- London Metropolitan Archives (former Guildhall Library collection) http://collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk/collage/app
See also: Political, Social, Religious and Economics History indexes
Transport
- London Tranport Museum http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections
See also: Transport indexes