Coisas que interessam ao EPHEMERA

Celebrating a year with By the People October 24, 2019 by Meghan Ferriter We’re delighted to celebrate By the People with this guest post from LC Labs Senior Innovation Specialist and By the People Community Manager, Lauren Algee. Connect with Lauren and her fellow crowd.loc.gov Community Managers Elaine Kamlley and Victoria Van Hyning via History Hub and […]

NYT Richard Booth, Self-Crowned King of Used Books, Dies at 80 He transformed a fading Welsh town into a tourist magnet by buying books in bulk from colleges, libraries, defunct wholesalers and collectors’ estates. Richard Booth in 2006. At one time he owned six secondhand bookstores in the small town […]

… nem a colecção do Victoria & Albert, sobre a qual escrevi no próprio Público em 2016,  nem a existência de uma colecção semelhante desde essa altura no ARQUIVO EPHEMERA, nem as colecções adjacentes na intenção e formato como a dos cartazes artesanais que foi exposta em 2018 no Barreiro e […]

Andando, como ando há muito tempo, “aos papéis”, posso fazer algumas afirmações que estão um pouco acima do impressionismo das opiniões. Uma delas é que posso responder à pergunta: o que é que as pessoas guardam? Já vi e organizei dezenas de espólios pessoais ou familiares e tenho uma ideia […]

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Election historian unapologetic in his defence of posters Posters are an important part of our electoral and democratic process, says Kinsella Thu, Apr 25, 2019, 17:26 Updated: Thu, Apr 25, 2019, 18:57 Pat Leahy Ireland has some of the most effective laws for limiting campaign expenditure in the western world, according to […]

Carol Pogash, NYT, April 11, 2019   SAN FRANCISCO — In one of the murals, George Washington points westward over the dead body of a Native American. Another depicts Washington’s slaves, hunched over, working in the fields of Mount Vernon. These images aren’t in a museum exhibition but on the […]

… e abrimos um ponto de recolha nos EUA.  

Sunday, March 24, 2019 For Sale: This Massive, Obsessive and (Probably) Obsolete VHS Boxing Archive Vincent Tullo for The New York Times By ALEX VADUKUL Forty years of boxing matches — as many as 55,000 individual fights — have been painstakingly preserved in a video archive. In the age of […]