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The stuff of everyday life: a brief introduction to the history and definition of printed ephemera

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Martin J. Andrews
Martin J. Andrews*
Affiliation:
Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, University of Reading, 2 Earley Gate, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AU, UK
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Email: m.j.andrews@reading.ac.uk
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Abstract

Rubbish for the waste-paper basket or valuable social documents? What is printed ephemera and what can it reveal to us about the everyday lives of people in the past? This brief introduction to the subject goes some way to answer these questions, and poses others.

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Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 31 , Special Issue 4: Ephemera as a research resource: special issue , 2006 , pp. 5 - 8
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2006

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