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Ephemera (general object genre)

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Items created, manufactured, or used for a specific, limited use; typically intended to be used for a short period and discarded thereafter, although ephemera is often actually collected.

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

David I. Bushnell, Jr. collection records

Collection Identifier: 41-72
Scope and Contents:

The papers primarily consist of Bushnell and the Bushnell estate's correspondence with dealers, artists, museum professionals and other collectors; Bushnell's fieldnotes from his work with the Choctaw and archaeological expeditions; and, manuscript drafts and notes for his many publications.

Douglas J. Dawson personal archive

Collection Identifier: HUM 330
Overview:

Douglas J. Dawson was a member of the Harvard College Class of 1970, and he received his AB in March 1971. The collection contains Dawson's Harvard course notes, essays, syllabi, and reading lists, Harvard admissions and financial aid materials, flyers and other political ephemera from the 1969 Harvard student strike and anti-Vietnam War protests, and several Harvard publications, all of which document Dawson's academic and political activities as an undergraduate student at Harvard.

Leverett Franklin Hooper personal archive

Collection Identifier: HUM 317
Overview: This collection contains ephemera, photographs, and related records acquired by Leverett Franklin Hooper while he was a student at Harvard University and serving in the United States Army during World War I. The bulk of the records date from 1914 to 1919 documenting Hooper’s involvement in World War I as a first lieutenant and member of the United States Army 351st Field Artillery Regiment. Also included is Hooper’s Harvard College undergraduate diploma (AB 1915), and Harvard diplomas for...

James Craig La Drière collection of ephemera

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Multiple ContainersIdentifier: 79M-62

Jeanne Beauvais scores, correspondence, and other material, 1927-1988.

Collection Identifier: Ms. Coll. 127
Overview:

The collection includes autographed letters, photographs and theatrical ephemera associated with her career. The bulk of the collection consists of print and manuscript scores by composers Virgil Thomson, Ned Rorem, Leonard Bernstein, Theodore Chanler and others; many of these are personally inscribed.

Leonard Finger collection of stock printers catalogs and letterhead

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box 1Identifier: 2003MT-93
Summary:

8 pieces of ephemera and 3 catalogs.

Nadia Boulanger scores by her students, 1925-1972.

Collection Identifier: Ms. Coll. 125
Overview:

This collection contains musical scores submitted by the students of French composer Nadia Boulanger while attending the American Conservatory at Fontainebleau, France.

NSZZ Solidarność (Labor organization) collection

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Slavic 28
Overview: Contains documents, interviews, oral histories, proclamations, correspondence, leaflets, posters, calendars, stamps, photographs, buttons, and other memorabilia. Records are in printed form, typescript, microfilm, tapes, and cassettes. Material concerns the strikes of 1970 and 1980; Solidarność trade union matters; activities of various opposition groups and political parties such as KOR, PPN, and KPN; repressions and martial law; church and state; police; and the Polish United Worker's...

Rubén Blades recordings and papers

Collection Identifier: AWM Spec Coll 100
Overview:

Commercial and privately produced sound and audiovisual recordings; periodicals; books; promotional materials, photographs, posters, correspondence, professional and business documents, scripts, ephemera and realia documenting the career of Rubén Blades, musician, actor and political figure from Panama.

Smith & Anthony Stove Company photograph and ephemera collection

Collection Identifier: Vis 24
Overview:

Photographs and ephemera of the stove, fireplace and furnace manufacturer Smith & Anthony Company of Boston, Mass., 1881-1909.