City Book Store Fan
I received my quarterly issue of Ephemera News (a publication of the Ephemera Society of America ) yesterday and one article in particular got my attention: The Appeal of a Fan , by Moira F. Harris. She writes about a hand fan she purchased at an estate sale and muses on the various reasons one might collect such a fan. There are collectors of hand fans and collectors of ephemera, including hand fans, with connections to various themes of interest, such as images, advertisements, or locales to name some. This article reminded me of a hand fan I have in my collection of ephemera related to book-related businesses. I don't collect hand fans, but this one found its way into my bibliophemera collection for the obvious reason of its connection to an old book store. The City Book Store in the city of Wooster, state unnamed, sold or gave these fans away probably around the turn of the century (19th to 20th) judging by the photo of the little girl and her books on one side of the fan. The...