 Vote the number one candidate for counsel. Hi, I'm Leon Miller, a curator in the Special Collections Division of the Tulane University Libraries. This die-cut campaign handout was created for Martha G. Robinson's 1954 race for New Orleans City Council, a race she lost to Vic Skiro, who went on to become mayor in 1961. Such handouts are meant to be glanced at and then thrown away, and so are intended to have a brief or ephemeral lifespan. Students and librarians therefore call such flyers ephemera, from the Greek word meaning things that last no longer than a day. All kinds of people or organizations create brochures and other handouts, but a special category is political ephemera. During election season, we're all deluged with campaign flyers that we mostly ignore, but political brochures and campaign cards can preserve a wealth of information that is often simply unavailable elsewhere, such as a candidate's offices, platforms, sometimes information about her family, religion, race, even club memberships. Political ephemera is therefore invaluable for studying not only Louisiana's admittedly unique brand of politics, but a wide range of other subjects, including civil rights, religion, gender, and much more. Special Collections preserves extensive political ephemera from 1860 to the present, and all of our political ephemera from 1860 to 1920 is freely available to everyone. Learn more online via the Tulane Digital Library at digitallibrary.tulane.edu, and please remember to vote.