Books in the UBC Catalogue
Encyclopedia of Ephemera: a guide to the fragmentary documents of everyday life for the collector, curator, and historian by Call Number: NC1280 .R52 2001ISBN: 0415926483Publication Date: 2000-11-14
The Other Print Tradition: essays on chapbooks, broadsides, and related ephemera by Call Number: PN970 .O85 1995ISBN: 0815303769Publication Date: 1995-09-01Ephemera: a book on its collection, conservation and use by
Call Number: Z688.P74 M35 1984ISBN: 0566034395Publication Date: 1985-04-01
Studies in Ephemera: Text and Image in Eighteenth-Century Print by Call Number: Z1029.5 .S78 2013ISBN: 9781611484946Publication Date: 2013-01-30Studies in Ephemera: Text and Image in Eighteenth-Century Print brings together established and emerging scholars of early modern print culture to explore the dynamic relationships between words and illustrations in a wide variety of popular cheap print from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century.
The design & printing of ephemera in Britain & America, 1720-1920 by Call Number: NC1284.G7 H83 2008ISBN: 9780712349048Publication Date: 2008
Databases
The following collections of primary source material containing ephemeral material are licensed by UBC Library. Current students, faculty and staff can refer to the Connect to Library Resources guide for instructions about connecting to any of the Library’s online resources from off-campus. Computers using a UBC wired or wireless network connection are automatically authenticated.
- American WestFrom the Graff Collection at the Newberry Library - includes papers of early pioneers & explorers; original manuscript journal and papers of James Audubon; evolution of Western towns & growth of railway & road networks
- China: Trade, Politics and Culture 1793-1980Includes a wide variety of original source material detailing China's interaction with the West from Macartney's first Embassy to China in 1793, through to the Nixon/Heath visits to China in 1972-74.
- Confidential Print: Middle East, c1839-1969Foreign and Colonial Office documents relating to the Middle East
- Confidential Print: North America, 1824-1961Foreign and Colonial Office documents relating to Canada, the Caribbean and the United States.
- Defining gender110 source documents (books and periodicals) from the early modern period to the nineteenth century supported by introductory essays, biographies, and chronologies.
- Eighteenth Century Journals: Portal to Newspapers and Periodicals c1685-1815British periodicals of the eighteenth century.
- Empire OnlinePrimary documents, supported by interpretive essays and other secondary materials, for the study of 'Empire'.
- Everyday Life & Women in America, c.1800-1920Primary source material from the nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries.
- Grand TourThe Grand Tour was a rite-of-passage for many aristocratic and wealthy young men between c1550 and c1850: a phenomenon which influenced British art, architecture, urban planning, literature and philosophy.
- Jewish Life in America, c1654-1954Primary sources from the American Jewish Historical Society, New York
- London Low LifeStreet culture and the underworld of Victorian London during the nineteenth century from primary sources housed in the Lilly Library, Indiana University.
- Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007An important portal for slavery and abolition studies. Topics covered include the varieties of slavery, the legacy of slavery, social justice issues and the continued existence of slavery today.
- Travel Writing, Spectacle and World HistoryWomen's travel diaries and correspondence from The Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.
- Victorian Popular CultureA collection of primary sources, together with interpretive essays, describing popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe in the period from 1779 to 1930.
Related Websites
You may also find digitized ephemera by searching these online portals:
- Canadiana Discovery PortalProvides access to digitized text, images and artifacts from heritage institutions from across Canada.
- West Beyond the WestA centralized database to search the digitized holdings of libraries, archives, museums and historical societies across British Columbia.
- World Digital LibraryThe World Digital Library (WDL) is a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, carried out with the support of the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO), and in cooperation with libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations from around the world. The WDL makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from all countries and cultures.
- Ephemera OnlineThe Library Company of Philadelphia began collecting ephemera in 1785 and the Library’s printed and graphic ephemera collections number nearly 40,000 items with 30,000 of those available online.
UBC Open Collections
UBC Library's Open Collections include digital photos, books, newspapers, maps, videos, theses, and more. These publicly-accessible collections are constantly growing and reflect the research interests of the UBC community and beyond. To search these collections, click here.