Categories of Ephemera

From the collector's perspective, ephemera can include any of the categories listed below. Those that are more commonly found in manuscript collections are underlined.

  • advertisements
  • bank checks
  • baseball cards
  • billheads
  • bonds
  • bookplates
  • bookmarks
  • broadsides (political)1 and 2
  • brochures
  • business cards
  • calendars
  • cigar box labels & bands
  • clipper ship cards
  • greeting cards
  • invitations
  • labels
  • magazines
  • newspapers (clippings)
  • packaging
  • pamphlets
  • passes
  • postcards
  • posters
  • programs
  • Rewards of Merit
  • sheet music
  • stocks
  • tickets
  • timetables
  • trade cards
  • valentines

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