A database that indexes the
ephemera collection of Auckland City Libraries.
The Ephemera Index is an index of printed ‘throwaway’ materials (e.g. cards, posters, tickets, programmes, flyers), that are kept in the Sir George Grey Special Collections, covering the Auckland region from the 1840s to the present day.
Use the Ephemera Index to locate posters, brochures, flyers, programmes, and other short-lived, ‘ephemeral’ items in the Sir George Grey Special Collections. In particular, the index assists in the location of material produced to pass on details about specific issues, performances, activities, or events in the Auckland region from the 1840s to the present day.
The Ephemera Index lists individual items of ephemera generated for and by these activities, issues and events:
- Carnivals, Circuses and Tattoos
- Comedy
- Dance
- Festivals
- Film
- Maori Issues (includes Bastion Point)
- Politics
- Race – Apartheid (includes rugby tour protests)
- Royal visits
- Sports – Commonwealth Games; Rugby Union
- Theatre
- Tourism
- War
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ephemera collection
