"Ephemera" refers to those material items not intended to be kept for posterity, but rather to be used and discarded, including letters, advertisements, magazines, and postage stamps. Yet despite these items' intended disposability - or, perhaps, because of it - ephemera provides us with invaluable information regarding quotidian life of the past. This blog, maintained by the Ephemera Society - founded in 1980 to analyze and publicize ephemera - offers the general public a glimpse of some notable materials. Recent posts include the vibrant artwork of Jim Flora, who designed record covers in the 1940s; nineteenth century business cards, such as one on which A. Iles describes himself as a "Cow-keeper" and "gratefully solicits a continuance" of his neighbors' dairy patronage; as well as late nineteenth century trading cards that predicted the character of life in the late twentieth century (one such card appears to predict a unicycle capable of carrying a person across water).