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Special Collections: Ephemera

Ephemera Collection

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This consists of  historical and contemporary (mostly) paper ephemera; greeting cards, private view cards, maps, cigarette cards, travel guides, club flers.  It also includes matchbooks, mail-order catalogues such as Argos, Littlewoods, boxes and carrier bags.

Ephemera

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Ephemera

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Accessing the Ephemera Collections

The Ephemera Collections are stored in boxes and kept in the Materials Room which is located in the Basement of the Sheppard Library, Hendon. The Materials Room is usually open from 12pm to 3pm Monday to Friday during term-time.

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Ephemera: Categories

This is a list of the categories in the Ephemera Collection

Bags 
Bookmarks
Boxes
Braille
Catalogues
Catalogues - Argos
Catalogues – Children
Catalogues – Gift
Catalogues – Toys
Fanzines
Flyers
Games
Greeting Cards
London Transport
Maps 
Matchbooks
Matchbooks + Cigarettes
Papers
Music  
Paper Ephemera  
Postcards + Cigarette Cards
Programmes
Private View Cards
Royal Souvenirs
Sport
Tart Cards
Travel
Sheet Music