Event Calendar

British & European Paintings, Old Master & Modern Prints including Piranesi's Views of Rome

10am

Dominic Winters Auctioneers
Mallard House,
Broadway Lane,
South Cerney

Cirencester, UK

Comic Books, including Pre-Code, Superheroes & Original Art
Sale #3042

11am

PBA Galleries Auctioneers & Appraisers
605 Addison Street

Berkeley, CA 

The Ephemera Society of America's flagship event next month will feature more than 10,000 items including advertisements, baseball cards, rare maps, playbills, banknotes, sheet music, luggage tags, and wood engravings.

The driving forces behind worldwide change include invention and innovation. The Ephemera Society of America’s 2017 conference explored American Ingenuity, but we only scratched the surface of a vast topic.

Each speaker will address a topic related to invention and innovation, relying heavily on tangible ephemera.  

We will feature nine presenters over two days. Presentations will: Explore the groundbreaking inventions that defined early photography and its transformative impact on art and society; Look at how inventions often build on previous ideas, solving everyday problems or evolving as technology changes over time; Exam how advocates and opponents of birth control tailored their messages to diverse audiences in the early 20th century; Trace the engineering and design advances that shaped the evolution of amusement park rides and their cultural impact; Take a deep dive into how psychedelic art of the 1960s revolutionized graphic design and reflected the counterculture of the time; Examine how illustrators redefined visual storytelling to address social and cultural issues during a period of rapid change; and Discus how ephemera collections provide insight into the innovation and evolution of American household design.

PREVIEW: Friday 5pm - 7pm

Saturday Hours:
ESA Member Early Admission 9am - 10am
Regular Admission 10am - 5pm

Sunday Hours:
11am - 4pm

Hyatt Regency Hotel
1800 E Putnam Avenue

Old Greenwich, CT

Rebecca Rego Barry, the former longtime editor of Fine Books & Collections, now director of communications at The Raab Collection, will discuss her most recent book researched at the Library of Congress, "The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells: Investigations into a Forgotten Mystery Author."

The event is part of the library’s Women’s History Month programming and centers on Barry’s research at the Library of Congress for her recently published biography The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells: Investigations into a Forgotten Mystery Author (2024). The program will consist of a brief illustrated presentation, a Q&A with LC rare book and special collections reference librarian Amanda Zimmerman, and a display of books from Wells’ collection of rare Walt Whitman editions.

In addition to being a famous writer of poems, prose, and mystery novels, Wells was a major book collector in the early decades of the 20th century. Although she collected broadly in American and English literature, she focused on Whitman, and she co-authored with bookseller Alfred Goldsmith, A Concise Bibliography of the Works of Walt Whitman (1922), which served as the standard reference for generations.

5:30pm - 7pm

This event is free, but tickets are required separately from Live! at the Library and there may be special restrictions. Click the "Get Tickets" link below for more information and to secure your ticket

Thomas Jefferson Building - LJ 119
10 1st Street SE

Washington, DC 

March Estate Catalogue Auction (March 13th & 14th)

AUCTION OF FRAMED NEWSPAPER FRONT PAGES AND RELATED EPHEMERA (March 14th Session, 11am)

Sloans & Kenyon is pleased to offer a collection of framed newspaper front pages and related ephemera in the March 14 session of the March Estate Catalogue Auction.

Consigned by a retired journalist, each is a reflection of the collector’s life-long passion for the unique way newspapers and other objects bring history to life each day. The collector is a lively 82-year-old journalist whose 65-year career arc stretches from the hot type of a high school newspaper to the digital printing of his trade publication created 43 years ago and is still going strong. He has enjoyed the opportunity to gather and savor these wonderful objects over the past 50 years. And now, in offering these items for sale, expressly looks forward to others having the same pleasure in their homes.

These front pages span the United States’s history. Read of Alexander Hamilton’s fatal encounter with Aaron Burr, or experience how “Earthquake and Fire, San Francisco in Ruins” was brought to readers in 1906 by the city’s three dailies – one time only – working in concert.

Ephemera ranges from a souvenir of the Brooklyn Bridge’s ribbon cutting to a rare California gold stamp box that was a Christmas gift given to San Francisco clothier Levi Straus by his young friend newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst.

Many of the front pages are framed with related photographs, letters and/or autographs; artifacts from those in the news; making them even more personal and unique.

11am

EXHIBITION:
Sat, Mar 8th 11am - 4pm
Mon, Mar 10th 10am - 5pm
Tue, Mar 11th  10am - 5pm
Wed, Mar 12th 10am - 3pm

Sloans & Kenyon Auctioneers & Appraisers
5550 Friendship Blvd Suite T-60

Chevy Chase, MD