# On the Road: Travel Ephemera in the Margolies Collection

Curator of Architecture Mari Nakahara leads a tour of a remarkable collection that spans the late 19th century to the early 2000s. Driving through the United States from the 1960s to the early 2000s to document roadside America, architectural historian John Margolies amassed an amazing collection of postcards, travel brochures and road maps. While his colorful photographs have become well known through books and an online archive in the the Library of Congress, almost unknown is his fascinating and extensive collection of travel ephemera of more than 3,300 items. In addition to traditional ephemera, the collection contains advertising placemats, gas station promotions, matchbooks, sheet music and souvenirs in scrapbooks.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2024
- Runtime: 44 min
- By: Nakahara, Mari
- Genres: Travel
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/video-10244/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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