Ephemera Exhibition

Title

Ephemera Exhibition

Identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/1959.1/965860

Description

Sihanouk collection
A digital representation of the Rare Book's exhibition "Ephemera", printed material which is used for various purposes and then discarded. These fragments of the past illuminate previous lives for future generations.

Items included range from 17th century to the present. Among the earliest are pieces concerned with an execution in 1678; tourist notices from the early 19th century; early greetings cards including valentines; a colour brochure for the first Holden car from 1950; the first Moomba programme from 1955; and many current posters and fliers for music events and political campaigns.

The exhibition was drawn from the holdings of the Monash University Library's Rare Books Collection. The library has been collecting ephemera since the early 1990's in support of research by social historians.

Collection Items

 The tryal of William Stayley, goldsmith: for speaking treasonable words against His most sacred Majesty, and upon full evidence found guilty of high treason, and received sentence accordingly on Thursday, November the 21st 1678

 Catalogue of the late Sergeant-Major Cotton's Waterloo Library and Museum in the Museum Hotel at the foot of the Lion Mount in the centre of the battlefield of Waterloo

A New valentine writer for ladies & gentlemen: being a choice collection of the most fashionable, quizzical and amorous pieces, with answers suited to the various dispositions, circumstances, trades, humour, or age of all classes

Married at last

Natural history

Australia unvaccinated yet free from smallpox: an eighteenth century superstition
Includes, loosely inserted, card from the British Union for Abolition of Vivisection, Melbourne Branch showing a dog with the caption, "You wouldn't vivisect me?" 

Vaccination and ruin

Melbourne for Moomba
Programme for the annual Melbourne Moomba festival held 7th-16th March, 1958

Melbourne Moomba festival
Programme for the annual Melbourne Moomba festival held 12th-26th March, 1955

Scotts Hotel: Moomba Festival 1961
Menu for the annual Moomba dinner, held at Scott's Hotel as part of the Moomba Festival.

Scotts Hotel: Moomba Festival 1957
Menu for the annual Moomba dinner, held at Scott's Hotel as part of the Moomba Festival. The guest of honour is Mrs Pat Bramwell, the 1957 Moomba Queen, who has also signed the inside page.

An Aboriginal Moomba: Out of the Dark'
The Australian Aboriginal League presents its contribution to the Centenary of Victoria and Jubilee of the Commonwealth celebrations. An Aboriginal Moomba "Out of the dark", performed at the Princess Theatre, Melbourne.

Householders' handbook for nuclear warfare

Australia's own car

Zeta by Lightburn: Australia's own 'second' car

Travancore Estate, Flemington Hill: auction, 30th November 1918
By public auction, Saturday 30th November 1918 in a seated marquee on the ground at 3 o'clock.  Travancore Estate, Flemington Hill (City of Melbourne) 106 choice allotments. Lovely high position overlooking the bay and royal park.

The black market is the traitor's market
"Issued by authority of the Minister for Trade and Customs and the Commonwealth Rationing Commission."  Printed on both sides, and apparently intended to be cut across perforation to be made into 2 separate sheets. Lower sheet contains title:…

Collins Book Depot magazine list

Annuals for all ages

AP annuals

Face the facts
Handwritten note on cover reads "Thanks for splashing everybody with mud on the way up!"

The south gate fountain: official opening ceremony programme

Our debt to our soldiers: an open letter to the children of Victoria from the Director of Education

Stay where you are

Ration book (junior)

Food card
Food card issue to Norman William McLeod of Icknield Road, Leagrave. The retailers are The Home & Colonial Stores Ltd., 4 Wellington Street, Luton.

Ration book supplement
Supplementary ration book issued to William R. Herring of 1 Walton Way, Mitcham, London on 7th July 1941.

An outline of the Military Service Act

Vegemite: pure vegetable extract

Marmite recipes: Marmite cookery book

Marmite recipes: Marmite cookery book with the compliments of the Sanitarium Health Food Company
A Marmite cookery booklet with, loosely included, a single leaf, headed, "What's wrong with the Australian child's diet?"

"Brewer's" famous recipes

Advertising flyer

Letter from C. R. Blackett to W. Bennett

Letter from Edward Knowlton to W. Bennett

Letter from Edward Knowlton

Recipe for 30 gallons of hop ale brewed

Recipe for 100 gallons stone beer

Brewer's "brewing compound," or "yeast food"
Advertising brochure with description of product and many testimonials, mostly for ginger beer in a factory.

Wattle Path Palais de Danse & Café Ltd: Esplanade St. Kilda
Issued for the opening of the Wattle Path Palais de Danse in Melbourne, 1922

Booklet giving details of the Board of Directors, music, building, decorations, dance floor, dining, prices, and orchestra. 

The Australia: wine list

Bread and Cheese Club dinner, 9th December 1944

Marmite: the richest known source of vitamin-B, the vitalizing food factor which tones up body and brain and aids 
An advertising brochure extolling the health benefits of Marmite with some ideas on its use in cooking

Helidon Spa Water

Your holiday in Queensland

TAA in-flight information booklet
Includes a 23 x 15 cm plant quarantine booklet in back cover

Ansett-ANA passenger ticket

Ansett-ANA passenger ticket

Qantas Empire Airways round-the-world through New York

Australian National Airways route map: Melbourne to Hobart
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