There are two Ephemera Collections:
Ephemera
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.
Middlesex Ephemera
This collection consists of corporate and student publications produced by the art and design courses at the Hornsey College of Art, Middlesex Polytechnic and more recently Middlesex University. Items iclude prospectuses, diaries, posters, architectural plans for Cat Hill, exhibition catalogues and private view cards.
The Ephemera Collection contains a fascinating array of historical and contemporary (mostly) paper items which would normally be thrown away, such as greeting cards, maps, flyers, private view cards. It also has matchbooks, mail order catalogues, carrier bags and many other items.
The Materials Room is now usually open from 11am to 3pm Monday to Friday during term-time for University staff and students. For safety, we are restricting numbers to not more than 10 in the room, and asking for masks to be worn where possible.
Please contact Marion (m.syratt-barnes@mdx.ac.uk) to make an appointment outside these hours, or for more information about the using the Special Collections.
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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 open from 11am to 3pm Monday to Friday during term-time.
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