ephemera

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The facility will include state-of-the-art, climate-controlled storage for the museum’s more than 250,000-object collection of paintings, sculptures, photographs, tapestries and Cold War-era ephemera from the Soviet Union, East Bloc, China and other countries.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2026

If anything proves the market value of seemingly worthless ephemera, Walker added, it’s fans clawing for printed set lists at the end of a concert.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2026

How well can you recall the past 250 years of books, music, movies and other cultural ephemera that makes up our country?

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026

This is where the oils live, and the spices, and the half-forgotten jars of jam, olives, vinegars and other bits of kitchen ephemera that have been quietly waiting for their moment.

From Salon • Jan. 11, 2026

Oh Thou, to whom directing worlds is play, Thy condescension without bounds must be, If man, the frail ephemera of a day, Be graciously regarded still by Thee.

From Heart Utterances at Various Periods of a Chequered Life by Gurney, Eliza Paul