{"id":154,"date":"2022-12-30T23:46:37","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T23:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.209.40.183\/?page_id=154"},"modified":"2023-07-21T22:17:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T22:17:36","slug":"articles-and-commentary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ephemeralnewfoundland.com\/index.php\/articles-and-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Articles and Commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-query is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul class=\"wp-block-post-template is-layout-flow wp-block-post-template-is-layout-flow\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-518 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-premiums\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ephemeralnewfoundland.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/11\/chocolate-premiums\/\" target=\"_self\" >Chocolate Premiums<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">In the late 19th-century, when you bought chocolate, the grocer dropped a delightful prize into your bag, a trade card to save and share. The Chocolat Pupier brand was created in Saint-\u00c9tienne, France, in the 1860s. The founder, Jean-Louis Pupier, handed over the company to his son Joseph in 1895. His grandsons Adrien and Marcel&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2023-06-11T00:26:17+00:00\">June 11, 2023<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-498 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-cigarette-cards category-tobacciana\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ephemeralnewfoundland.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/11\/cigarette-cards\/\" target=\"_self\" >Cigarette Cards<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Between 1875 and the 1940s, cigarette companies often included collectible cards with their packages of cigarettes. Cigarette card sets document popular culture from the turn of the century, often depicting the period&#8217;s actresses, costumes, and sports, as well as offering insights into mainstream humor and culture. This early card was issued by H. Ellis &amp;&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2023-06-11T00:08:55+00:00\">June 11, 2023<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-490 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-glass-slides\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ephemeralnewfoundland.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/31\/glass-lantern-slides\/\" target=\"_self\" >Glass Lantern Slides<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Lantern slides are positive transparent photographs made on glass and viewed with the aid of a \u201cmagic lantern,\u201d the predecessor of the slide projector. Lantern slide plates were commercially manufactured by sensitizing a sheet of glass with a silver gelatin emulsion. The plate was then exposed to a negative and processed, resulting in a positive&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2023-05-31T22:22:43+00:00\">May 31, 2023<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-485 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-illustrated-postcards category-post-card\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ephemeralnewfoundland.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/31\/easter-cards\/\" target=\"_self\" >Easter Cards<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">This spring themed card is an example of a stock card- printed by a publisher and featured in catalogs for educators for use a reward or recognition cards, or businesses for trade cards with an imprinted back.\u00a0 Postcards were often produced in series &#8211; this example shows a young mother enjoying an afternoon in the&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2023-05-31T22:13:45+00:00\">May 31, 2023<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-483 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-illustrated-postcards category-post-card\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ephemeralnewfoundland.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/31\/birthday-card-postcards\/\" target=\"_self\" >Birthday Card Postcards<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">A short history of the birthday card \u2013 Deltiology, or the collecting of postcards, including many \u201cspecialties, including holiday greetings and birthday cards. A short history of the birthday card &#8211; Sending a birthday card is an act of communication. As families grew and moved on, sometimes across oceans or continents where travel was lengthy&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2023-05-31T22:04:40+00:00\">May 31, 2023<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-433 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-books-and-toys category-puzzles\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ephemeralnewfoundland.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/20\/puzzles\/\" target=\"_self\" >Puzzles<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">These are postcards from the novelty category &#8211; picture puzzles &#8211; the sender would write out the back, then break the pieces apart and put in the envelope for mailing. These are 2 examples &#8211; the black is originally from the Beck Collection.\u00a0 Wood block puzzles were very popular in the end of the 1800&#8217;s.&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2023-05-20T15:36:44+00:00\">May 20, 2023<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-400 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-financial-documents\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ephemeralnewfoundland.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/10\/currency-financial-papers\/\" target=\"_self\" >Currency &#038; Financial Papers<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Printed Receipts first appeared specifically in the levying of taxes. The printed receipt provides a measure of accountancy control greater than a handwritten slip. These receipts are from a counterfoil booklet, these were introduced in the late 1800\u2019s and consisted of a booklet where a receipt was completed and had a corresponding tab that was&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2023-03-10T23:52:46+00:00\">March 10, 2023<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-377 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ephemeralnewfoundland.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/04\/lewis-clark-first-day-covers\/\" target=\"_self\" >Lewis &#038; Clark First Day Covers<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">A first day of issue cover or first day cover (FDC) is a postage stamp on a cover, postal card or stamped envelope franked on the first day the issue is authorized for use within the country or territory of the stamp-issuing authority. From 2004-2006 the United States celebrated the bicentennial of the Lewis &amp;&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2023-03-04T17:54:52+00:00\">March 4, 2023<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-375 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-post-card category-real-photo-post-card-rppc\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ephemeralnewfoundland.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/04\/real-photo-post-cards\/\" target=\"_self\" >Real Photo Post Cards<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Deltiology, the collecting of postcards, is the third largest hobby in the world.\u00a0Real photo post cards were popular at the turn of the 20th\u00a0Century. Dating these post cards is made easier by information printed on the reverse of the cards. Sometimes, however, the job is made far easier when a card has been postally used&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2023-03-04T17:28:35+00:00\">March 4, 2023<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-287 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-trade-cards category-uncategorized\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ephemeralnewfoundland.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/19\/trade-cards-famous-lithographers\/\" target=\"_self\" >Trade Cards &#8211; Famous Lithographers<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Thomas Calvert, born in Yorkshire (1828) and immigrated to America when he was 21. He worked for several printing companies before moving to Detroit and starting his own firm in 1861. Calvert was a major producer of trade cards from the late 1870\u20192 to 1900. Thomas Calvert became one of the leaders of the American&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2023-02-19T00:27:37+00:00\">February 19, 2023<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-285 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-reward-of-merit category-social-cards\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ephemeralnewfoundland.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/19\/reward-of-merit-cards\/\" target=\"_self\" >Reward of Merit Cards<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Rewards of merit, small tokens of congratulation given to students for good behavior and scholastic accomplishments, have been utilized by teachers for generations. The practice was most popular during the nineteenth century when printing techniques evolved to make this form of ephemera more readily available. A majority of the surviving rewards of merit are printed,&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2023-02-19T00:12:26+00:00\">February 19, 2023<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-282 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-cabinet-card category-photographs\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ephemeralnewfoundland.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/13\/cabinet-cards\/\" target=\"_self\" >Cabinet Cards<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Cabinet cards are photographs mounted on stiff pieces of cardboard. They were introduced in the 1860s and gradually superseded the smaller carte de visite format.The front of the card is usually printed or embossed with the photographer\u2019s details, and the back of the cabinet card is often printed with elaborate designs Cabinet cards with scalloped&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2023-02-13T00:32:56+00:00\">February 13, 2023<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-280 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-trade-cards\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ephemeralnewfoundland.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/07\/stock-trade-cards\/\" target=\"_self\" >Stock Trade Cards<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">By the mid-1870s multicolor trade cards had fully emerged as a popular form of advertising for a wide variety of manufacturers and retail establishments, stimulating a vigorous, competitive business for the printing industry. Advertisers could overprint their promotional information in spaces on the front or have it stamped on the reverse. Some stock trade cards&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2023-02-07T22:57:29+00:00\">February 7, 2023<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-278 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-cdv category-photographs\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ephemeralnewfoundland.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/05\/carte-de-visite\/\" target=\"_self\" >Carte de Visite<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">A carte de visite is a photograph mounted on a piece of card the size of a formal visiting card\u2014hence the name. The format was patented by the French photographer Andre Adolphe Eugene Disd\u00e9ri (1819\u201389) in 1854. Realising that there was a market for a process which could produce a large number of prints very&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2023-02-05T01:08:15+00:00\">February 5, 2023<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-275 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-philately category-souvenir-sheet tag-philately\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ephemeralnewfoundland.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/05\/souvenir-sheets\/\" target=\"_self\" >Souvenir Sheets<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">A souvenir sheet or miniature sheet is a postage stamp or a small group of postage stamps still attached to the sheet on which they were printed. They may be either regular issues that just happen to be printed in small groups (typical of many early stamps), or special issues often commemorating some event, such&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2023-02-05T01:00:58+00:00\">February 5, 2023<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-173 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-photographs\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ephemeralnewfoundland.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/31\/tintypes\/\" target=\"_self\" >Tintypes<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">A tintype is a direct positive with a lacquered iron support, collodion binder layer, and silver image layer. Tintypes are most commonly found in the carte-de-visite size (approx. 2 \u00bd&#8221; \u00d7 4&#8243; to 4 \u00bc&#8221; ), although they were also produced in smaller sizes. Most tintypes can be thought of as an underexposed image having&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2022-12-31T04:06:50+00:00\">December 31, 2022<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-162 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-post-card category-real-photo-post-card-rppc\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ephemeralnewfoundland.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/31\/studio-props\/\" target=\"_self\" >Studio Props<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">A post card with an image of two girls with a pull toy Newfoundland. Written on the reverse is: July 7, 1914, tall girl is Lavera Armstrong, Sardinia NY. Looking her up I found her on census\u2019 in the same town for her whole life. She was born Lavera Marie Tarbell on April 7, 1902.&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2022-12-31T00:29:50+00:00\">December 31, 2022<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-140 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-cabinet-card category-photographs\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ephemeralnewfoundland.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/30\/alta-leet\/\" target=\"_self\" >Alta Leet<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Sometimes serendipity plays a role in collections. Acquired this cabinet card. On the reverse is handwritten \u201cAlta Leet\u201d. The photographer information was JT Strouse, Ithaca MI. Some searching on genealogy sites found Alta Leet was born in Ithaca MI on 8\/6\/1884. She was married in 1901 and her husband died in 1904. She moved to&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2022-12-30T23:09:24+00:00\">December 30, 2022<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-1 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ephemeralnewfoundland.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/28\/hello-world\/\" target=\"_self\" >Why Ephemera?<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">People collect many different things. Sculptures and figurines, paintings and jewelry. Collecting ephemera, or &#8220;little scraps of beauty&#8221; as Nick Waters calls them has become a passion (obsession?) that links my love of Newfoundland Dogs and my love of history, as each card or photograph provides a little window into the culture and activities of&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2022-12-28T18:49:32+00:00\">December 28, 2022<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-154","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ephemeralnewfoundland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ephemeralnewfoundland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ephemeralnewfoundland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ephemeralnewfoundland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ephemeralnewfoundland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ephemeralnewfoundland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527,"href":"https:\/\/www.ephemeralnewfoundland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/154\/revisions\/527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ephemeralnewfoundland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}