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Printed ephemera

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

Arts Ephemera collected by Joanna Marie Drew

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-774
Identifier: Coll-1121
Scope and Contents The ephemera - largely printed and graphic - includes art subjects from all ages, and artists ranging in stature and in their international reknown: Francis Bacon, David Bomberg, Braque, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Cezanne, Otto Dix, Robert Doisneau, Maggi Hambling, Katarzyna Kobro, El Lissitzky, Berthold Lubetkin and Tecton, Magritte, Andrea Mantegna, Matisse, Andre Breton Matta, Miro, Monet, Henry Moore, Picasso, Bridget Riley, and Richard Wentworth. It covers painting, sculpture, architecture,...
Dates: 1960-1990

Book, medals, and printed ephemera relating to Helen Patuffa Hood and Marjory Kennedy Fraser

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-1592
Identifier: Coll-1978
Content Description This collection includes a printed book with two enclosures, printed ephemera, and two medals related to harpist Helen Patuffa Hood and her mother Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, Scottish musician and folk-song collector. The printed book is a signed copy of The Road to the Isles (Edinburgh: Robert Grant & Son, 1927) by Kenneth Macleod given by the author himself to Patuffa...
Dates: 1889; 1925-1928; 1946

Collection of Victorian printed ephemera

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-1592
Identifier: Coll-1982
Content Description

Collection of 32 Victorian printed ephemera, in colour: greeting cards, birthday cards, New Year and Christmas cards, religious cards with short prayers, a Valentine card, and two advertisements for Heinz and Ivelcon. Some cards are annotated in the back by the people who sent or received them.

Dates: 19th - early 20th century

Ephemera and prospectuses, 1999-2023

 Series
Identifier: Coll-2110/2
Scope and Contents

This series consists of printed ephemera (including cards and Christmas cards) and prospectus created by Christopher Wakeling in his Corvus Works workshop. They are arranged by year.

Dates: 1999-2023

Marjory Kennedy-Fraser Lectures, Part 1 & 2, 11 May 1895-16 May 1923

 File
Scope and Contents Marjory Kennedy-Fraser Lectures, Part 1 & 2. ‘Paper read to E.M.E.S. [Edinburgh Musical Education Society], 13 January 1915’, text on reverses of various recital programmes, mainly from Marjory Kennedy-Fraser’s Art Song recitals in 1905-1907, some pages missing, manuscript. ‘Matthay Paper to Boston, M.K.F. [Marjory Kennedy-Fraser]’, manuscript, letter from Mr C....
Dates: 11 May 1895-16 May 1923

Miscellaneous items, Part 1, 2, & 3, 1891-1928

 File
Scope and Contents Miscellaneous items, Part 1, 2, & 3. ‘General’, bundle of miscellaneous notes, wrapped in ‘Songs of the Hebrides (Ancient Scots Minstrelsie). From the Western Isles of Scotland’, Music Hall, Edinburgh, 21 January 1913, recital programme, containing various lecture notes, notes, excerpts, etc., in no particular order, manuscripts. & typescripts, texts often on reverses of...
Dates: 1891-1928

Music: printed or mss. [manuscripts], various items, c 1910-1920

 File
Scope and Contents Music: printed or mss. [manuscripts], various items. ‘Marjory and Patuffa Kennedy-Fraser with Margaret Kennedy and Hugh Mackay (Arts League of Service), Songs of the Hebrides, Edinburgh Recital, 19th February, Usher Hall, London Recital 24th February, Queen’s Hall’, programme, no year. ‘Songs of the Hebrides’, leaflet, multiple copies,...
Dates: c 1910-1920

Print archive of Corvus Works, by Christopher Wakeling

 Collection
Identifier: Coll-2110
Scope and Contents

This is a mixed collection of printed works by the fine press typographic studio "Corvus Works", founded by Christopher Wakeling.


  1. Fine press books (transferred to Rare Books collections);
  2. Single sheet publications (broadsides);
  3. Printed ephemera and prospectuses arranged by year.
Dates: 1999-2024

Recital programmes and publicity leaflets, c 1916-c 1931

 File
Scope and Contents Recital programmes and publicity leaflets. Publicity leaflet, with photograph of Marjory and Patuffa Kennedy-Fraser (at the harp), ‘Songs of the Hebrides, Folk Songs from the Scottish Isles’, [1916], New York. Leaflet/advert, unknown publication, [New York], with photograph of Marjory and Patuffa Kennedy-Fraser (at the harp), ‘Mrs. Kennedy-Fraser, Miss Patuffa...
Dates: c 1916-c 1931

‘Some manuscripts, proofs, offprints’, Part 1 & 2, c 1920s

 File
Scope and Contents ‘Some manuscripts, proofs, offprints’, Part 1 & 2. manuscripts, proofs, and offprints. Part 1. Publicity leaflet, with press comments and pictures of Marjory Kennedy-Fraser and Margaret Kennedy, [after 1920]. Part 2. ‘Carol from the Hebrides for Boys’ Voices’, melody from Songs of the Hebrides (Marjory Kennedy-Fraser),...
Dates: c 1920s