Studying ephemera of American culture

Saul Zalesch, Associate Professor of Art History at Louisiana Tech University, curates a website dedicated to the “identification, preservation, publicizing, and study of ephemeral publications that provide more-nuanced pictures of American culture and life”. The site includes a gallery of more obscure objects (posters and labels, for example, are not included) and readers are encouraged to participate with submissions or comments.


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