Printed Ephemera

RBSC houses a number of topical collections consisting wholly or primarily of printed ephemera. Among the formats most frequently encountered in these collections are pamphlets, individual periodical issues or clipped articles, programs, broadsides and handbills, and book jackets. Materials are typically stored in folders and boxes, like archival collections, and are accessed through archival finding aids.

A key to RBSC's printed ephemera collections appears below, grouped by subject area. Among the most notable are collections relating to the American poet Robert Creeley (EPH 5005; EPH 5009) and the American writer and illustrator Edward Gorey (EPH 5004). Also significant is an accumulation of Catholic pamphlets that is among the largest of its kind (EPH 5024). In addition, the Joyce Sports Collection includes tens of thousands of programs, guides, yearbooks, and other printed ephemera; inventories of many of these items may be accessed from the sports subject page on this site.

For ephemeral formats in which image rather than text is paramount, see Broadsides, Prints & Posters.

U.S. History and Culture

• Suzy Conway collection of articles and ephemera pertaining to Edward Gorey (EPH 5004)
• Robert Creeley ephemera (EPH 5009)
• Robert Creeley library: inserts (EPH 5005)
• Adam J. Lutzweiler collection of fundamentalist and evangelical magazines (EPH 5003)
• Small press/mimeographic revolution collection (EPH 5012)
• Modern poetry collection (EPH 5013)
• Walter Trohan collection ephemera (EPH 5018)
• Charles Craypo collection of union-management contract pamphlets (EPH 5019)
• John Matthias collection (EPH 5026)
• John Bennett Shaw modern authors collection (EPH 5015)
• Collection of Tijuana bibles (EPH 5031)
• Round the World with Nellie Bly board game (EPH 5044)
• John F. Kennedy ephemera
• Franklin D. Roosevelt ephemera

Irish Studies

• Abbey Theatre programmes
• Cuala Press ephemera collection (EPH 5002)
• Bloody Sunday newspaper collection (EPH 5001)
• Jonathan Swift collection ephemera (EPH 5007)
• Charabanc theatre ephemera (EPH 5008)
• Dolmen Press ephemera (EPH 5010)
• Risteard O Glaisne collection ephemera (EPH 5011)
• Easter Rising (1916) collection (EPH 5027)
• Irish Fiscal Reform League collection (EPH 5028)
• Paul Muldoon collection (EPH 5029)
• Irish theatre program collection (EPH 5032)

American Catholic Studies

• Catholic Art Association ephemera (EPH 5021)
• Catholic pamphlet collection (EPH 5024)

Fine Printing & Book Arts

• Collection of artists' books created at the Indiana University School of Fine Arts (EPH 5006)
• Little Blue Books (EPH 5017)
• Little Leather Library (EPH 5025)
• Armed services editions (EPH 5023)
• John Bennett Shaw collection of ephemera on private presses and the history of printing (EPH 5016)
• The Perishable Press collection (EPH 5040)
• Overbrook Press collection (EPH 5041)
• Latin Press collection (EPH 5042)
• Wild Hawthron Press collection (EPH 5043)

Modern European Cultures

• John Bennett Shaw modern authors collection (EPH 5015)
• Ephemera relating to the 1848 revolutions in Austria-Hungary (EPH 5036)

Miscellaneous

• Ervin C. Kleiderer collection on horology (EPH 5022)
• Wu Jingxiong collection (EPH 5038)