Ephemera are detritus or garbage that people produce without intending it to survive the moment. Categorically speaking and according to the Ephemera Society of America, "Ephemera include paper materials such as advertisements, airsickness bags, baseball cards, currency, board and card games, greeting cards, invitations, labels, menus, paper dolls, postcards, posters, puzzles and puzzle cards, stock certificates, tickets, timetables, trade cards, valentines, watch papers, and wrappers." Nonetheless and perhaps more than any other form of evidence, ephemera encode social objectives in their fragile bodies ”" both ideologies and the shadow of a human touch. That is probably why according to John Grossman of the Collection of Antique Images, studying ephemera provides a way of grasping the everyday expectations and hopes of ordinary people momentarily embedded in the material world.