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Enjoy holiday décor and winter vignettes complete with fashions from the WRHS Costume Collection and Chisholm Halle Costume Wing in the Bingham-Hanna and Hay-Mc Kinney Mansions, as well as the Crawford Auto Aviation Museum.Collecting African-American Ephemera In March, 2003, Elvin Montgomery gave a talk on collecting African-American ephemera at Ephemera 23, the annual conferenceand fair sponsored by the Ephemera Society.Music ephemera included sheet music for "In That Celestial City" and a flyer for baritone classical singer Todd Duncan from the mid twentieth century.

Investors realize the growing monetary value of African-American ephemera and are interested in compiling collections for subsequent resale.Historical ephemera represents an insiders’ viewpoint of African Americans and their world.Black memorabilia, on the other hand, represents the outside viewpoints of others, usually not admirers.The efforts made to establish a national African-American museum have energized an appreciation of Black ephemera.As Elvin emphasized: "various forms of ephemera will have to be an important part of this museum's armamentarium of research, teaching, and display materials.