Consisting of rare archival materials that document everyday life in eighteenth- to twentieth-century Britain with full color, high-resolution images, the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera resides in the Bodleian Library of Oxford, England. This database of scanned items provides direct access to rare primary source materials-- images and text--evidence of Britain's cultural, social, industrial, and technological heritage. The online collection benefits not only those working across a broad range of academic disciplines but also the wider learning public who would not otherwise have access to this important record of the past. Ephemera have a multitude of applications to research and teaching and are now very much valued by the scholarly community as uninterpreted documents of the past. There are more than 65,000 items drawn from five subject areas: crimes, murders and executions; advertising; book trade; nineteenth-century entertainment; and popular prints.