Evanion the magician could produce a bowl of flames from beneath his coat. He also billed himself as achieving “laughable ventriloquial effects and necromantic feats,” and carried the title the “Royal ...

With the development around 1840 of chromolithography, the process of printing in colors, the ephemera of everyday Victorian life took on a vibrant new appeal. Calling cards, valentines, advertising ...

The Oxford English Dictionary defines “ephemera” as “ who or something which has a transitory existence.”[1] According to the Ephemera Society of America, it includes “a broad range of minor (and ...