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                     5th Annual North American Symposium
                                   of the
                         Ephemera Society of America
                          at Colonial Williamsburg
                              Williamsburg, VA
                             October 20-21, 1995

                EPHEMERA: anything short-lived or transitory

      The Ephemera Society of America is an organization committed
to the study of often-overlooked but culturally rich objects such
as lottery tickets, newspapers, trade cards, and travel literature
- to name but a few.  The annual symposiums of the society focus on
a main theme and include lecture sessions as well as activities
devoted to the study, discussion, and illumination of pieces of
ephemera as material culture.
      The society will hold its 1995 symposium in historical
Colonial Williamsburg, in Virginia, with the theme ``Job Printing
in America''.  Speakers from organization such as the American
Antiquarian Society, Library Company of Philadelphia, Yale
University, and Colonial Williamsburg will speak on topics ranging
from pre-1800 Virginia Ephemera, Benjamin Franklin's job printing,
chromolithography and the cigar label, and architectural vignettes
on commercial stationary.
      The event will feature a special torch-lit reception at
Colonial Williamsburg's eighteenth-century Printing Office by the
tradesmen who have dedicated their lives to the accurate recreation
of the book arts trades of colonial America. A demonstration of
papermaking, hand-press operation, bookbinding and gold tooling,
and the production of decorative papers will be held and symposium
attendees will have the opportunity to try some of these activities
first hand.

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      Registration fee: $150 ($250 for couples).  This includes a
year-long pass to all of Colonial Williamsburg's many museums,
programs, and demonstrations, six formal lectures, tours of the CW
library and other historic sites of interest, and a banquet dinner
at the Williamsburg Woodlands hotel.
      For more information, sent email to [log in to unmask], or call
518-674-2673.


Brett Charbeneau, Journeyman Printer        P.O. Box 1776-GHW
Williamsburg Imprints Program               Williamsburg, VA 23187
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation            Tel: (804) 229-1000
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