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Classifying
Printed Ephemera
An American
Time Capsule has a variety of printed ephemera genre.
Printed ephemera may be classified by:
Format
Purpose
Acquiring
Material
Multiple
Uses
- Coin a new term: The
Gerry-Mander
- Trial evidence: Attention
Workingmen, I;
Attention
Workingmen, II
- Comparison of employment over time: Statistics of
Lowell Manufactures, 1835,
1846,
and 1857
- Glimpse standard of living of a time/place: Statement
of deaths, Philadelphia
- Modes of travel: Timetable
by Frank Queen of the New York Clipper; and
Rail Passenger Service, page
1 and page
4
- Home decoration: Painting
in General
- Social attitudes, interests, and mores: Lost!
Strayed;
Robert
Bell, Bookseller;
Stereotype
plates;
The
Sentiments of an American Woman;
Wounded
Soldiers, I; and
Wounded
Soldiers, II
Points
for Analysis
- Geographic representation: Geographic
location of printing
- Style or appearance (type face, border, illustrations, visual
style, writing style, language style, etc.)
- Intent, point of view: Declaration
and protest
- Dating the item (internal evidence to 'date' the item and suggest
research sources)
- Mistakes:
- Continuum of interest in topics (medicines, travel)
Medicines
Travel
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