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Subject: Ephemera Society Fellowships
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 09:31:01 -0500
From: Everett <[log in to unmask]>
The Ephemera Society of America is pleased to announce The Philip Jones
Fellowship for the study of ephemera. The competition, now in its fifth
year is open to any interested individual or organization for the study
of any aspect of ephemera. The program provides a stipend of $1,000 to
individuals or institutions conducting research based on ephemera of any
type. To learn more about the fellowship and the Society, please visit:
http://www.ephemerasociety.org/
Ephemera Society of America Fellowship
The Ephemera Society of America invites applications for the Philip
Jones Fellowship for the Study of Ephemera. This competition, now in its
fifth year is open to any interested individual or organization for the
study of any aspect of ephemera -- material defined as transitory
printed documents.
It is expected that this study will advance one or more aims of the Society:
-- To cultivate and encourage interest in this material;
-- To further the understanding, appreciation, and enjoyment of ephemera
by people of all ages, backgrounds and levels of interest
-- To contribute to cultural understanding;
-- And to advance the personal and institutional collection,
preservation, exhibition, and research of ephemeral materials.
The $1,000 stipend can be applied to travel or study expenses. The
expected form and outcome of the project and its relationship to
ephemera; when and how the outcome will be disseminated; and its benefit
to furthering the goals of the ESA should be clearly stated in the
application. Stipend money cannot be used to purchase ephemera items.
Ephemera includes a vast amount of paper material such as
advertisements, airsickness bags, baseball cards, billheads, bookmarks,
bookplates, broadsides, cigar box labels and bands, cigarette cards,
clipper ship cards, board and card games, greeting cards, sheet music,
maps, calendars, blotters, invitations, luggage labels, menus, paper
dolls, postcards, posters, puzzles and puzzle cards, stock certificates,
tickets, timetables, trade cards, valentines, watch papers, and
wrappers. These are but a handful of examples. Please see the ESA
website at www.ephemerasociety.org for more information about ephemera.
The Fellowship selection criteria include: 1. the importance of the
project; 2. how it will be shared with ESA members and the public; 3.
and the project's relationship to ephemera and the mission of the
Ephemera Society of America.
Applications are due January 15, 2012. Specific application instructions
for this fellowship can be downloaded here. In order to be considered
these instructions need to be followed.
The applicant's resume should include the applicant's experience and
proven abilities to carry out this project. The completed application
should be sent electronically to: [log in to unmask] Decisions will be
reported to the successful individual or organization by March 1, 2012
and will be announced at the Society's annual meeting and conference
March 17, 2012, in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. The successful candidate
is expected to write an article about the project for an issue of the
Society's Ephemera News, and also prepare a presentation about the
project for the following year's annual conference.
Examples of previously funded proposals are:
A study of Charles Magnus, one of the most prolific printers of
ephemera during the nineteenth century, was in some ways simply a job
printer, producing a wide variety of books, maps, prints, and single
sheet items, but is worthy of study because so little has been written
about him.
Study of a specific ephemeral object, "the Negro Motorists Green
Book" providing insight into the ways that black Americans responded to
racial segregation, how they adapted to the changes in American life
resulting from the automobile and the interstate highway system, and how
they found ways to confront racism while grabbing onto middle class life.
An elementary school teacher's project involving the school
community in a project using ephemera to interest children in the social
history of various cultures. This project also produced a lesson plan
for an assignment that is available for other teachers to replicate.
The Victorian custom of exchanging snippets of hair.
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