Ephemera

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  • Temporary everyday items, usually printed and on paper, that are manufactured for a specific limited use, then often discarded. Includes everyday items that are meant to be saved, at least for a while, such as keepsakes and stock certificates.

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  • Library of Congress Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

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      Ephemera

      • UF Programmes, leaflets, receipts, menus, playbills, pamphlets, flyers, greeting cards, business cards, invitations, coupons, tickets

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      Ephemera

        4 Archival description results for Ephemera

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        Furniture and woodworkers union materials.
        SCA275-GA296 · Collection · 1931-1935

        Fonds consists of ephemera relating to the unionization of furniture makers and woodworkers in the Kitchener, Stratford, and Woodstock area. Includes a mock liberty bond for the defence of workers arrested protesting, a card promoting socialist industrial unionism, a handbill outlining union desires, a letter from Canada Furniture Manufacturers regarding an adjustment to pay rates, a handbill encouraging furniture workers to unionize, and a photocopy of a letter to Herman Kreuger.
        Speech at Stratford.
        SCA204-GA529-1-3 · File · 1909
        Part of Breithaupt Hewetson Clark collection.

        File consists of material relating to activities of A.L. Breithaupt in his position as Chairman of the Berlin Light Commission. In 1909 he was called on by W.S. Dingman, Mayor of Stratford, to present information about the Berlin electric plant and street railway during a dispute over the proposed purchase of an electric plant for Stratford. Includes a letter from W.S. Dingman to A.L. Breithaupt, A.L.B.'s notes, typescript carbon notes and financial statements of the Berlin Light Commission and of the Berlin and Waterloo Street Railway, and clippings concerning the arbitration.