Citations:commemorabilia


 * 1970 — Forbes, 15 December 1970, page 35:
 * Americans also have an insatiable demand for "commemorabilia." These are special issues commemorating moon landings, Presidential inaugurations, college graduations and the like.
 * 1981 — Geoffrey Tomb, "Di may find royal life no bed of roses", The Ledger,  13 July 1981:
 * Lord Maclean, the Lord Chamberlain of the royal household who is responsible for approving use of the royal family on such items, has fought a noble but unsuccessful battle to have only "commemorabilia that is in good taste and of a permanent nature."
 * 1984 — Mike Hogan, "Small Business", California Business, January 1984 :
 * Retail businesses such as the Wild Tops T-shirt shop in Fox Hills Mall near Los Angeles International Airport expect the sale of Olympic-related "commemorabilia" to possibly double receipts during the period.
 * 1986 — Thomas J. Winslow, "after the facts", The Harvard Crimson, 26 September 1986:
 * By the way, this is the first time Harvard is marketing its name in officially-sanctioned "commemorabilia."
 * 1987 — Martin Cropper, "Presley present", The Times, 17 August 1987:
 * Presley slightly died 10 years ago yesterday, and a global commemorabilia industry has been working flat-out ever since for the benefit of the tense and potentially lachrymose monomaniacs who constitute his posthumous following.
 * 1997 — "Fairy-Tale Princess", St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 7 September 1997:
 * By the time the wedding date rolled around on July 29, 1981, her face and his were on most of the 971 "items of commemorabilia" that somebody counted for sale across the country.
 * 1999 — Sunil Khilnani, "The Creation of Identity and the Invention of Tradition", Los Angeles Times, 31 January 1999:
 * It also ensures a stream of symbolic trinkets, "commemorabilia" that give a nation -- or a group within a nation -- a sense of itself.
 * 2001 — J. Scott Miller, Adaptations of Western Literature in Meiji Japan, Palgrave (2001), ISBN 0312239955, page 45:
 * Robun began issuing his three-volume "biography" of Grant while Grant was still in Japan, and there are several interesting aspects of this work that make it stand out among the other Grant commemorabilia:
 * 2002 — "Auction of right royal collection", The Gloucester Citizen, 20 March 2002:
 * Gloucester-based auctioneers, BK, are selling a remarkable collection of royal commemorabilia tomorrow.
 * 2004 — Alex Lapp, "Rodin's Bourgeois de Calais: commemorating a French national ideal in London", in Memory and Memorials: The Commemorative Century (eds. William Kidd & Brian Murdoch), Ashgate (2004), ISBN 0754607356, page 16:
 * They are commemorabilia, objects through which we remember the past, the dead, history.
 * 2009 — Joyce Cohen, "Cake Toppers: An End to One Size Fits All", New York Times, 18 September 2009:
 * Suzi Martin of Oak Ridge, N.J., calls such keepsakes "commemorabilia." Her topper, featuring painted wooden figures, is detailed down to the white streak in the beard of her husband, Pete Carlsson.
 * 2009 — Judith Fitzgerald, "Leonard Cohen: The latest on the greatest", The Globe and Mail, 6 November 2009:
 * Designed and purchased by members (under the direction of American Dick Straub) of The Leonard Cohen Forum (a joint message-board / chatroom co-hosted by the U.S.'s Marie Mazur, webmistress of Speaking Cohen and Finland's Jarkko Arjatsalo, webmaster of The Leonard Cohen Files), the lovely commemorabilia now holds its own in the storied hotel's entranceway alongside those honouring luminaries the likes of Brendan Behan
 * 2010 — Andrew Romano, "Lennon's Other Legacy", Newsweek, 3 December 2010:
 * It’s that Lennon’s celebrity — the very thing that killed him — is still large and lucrative enough to inspire such a frenzy of “commemorabilia.”
 * 2011 — Joy Sather-Wagstaff, Heritage That Hurts: Tourists in the Memoryscapes of September 11, Left Coast Press (2011), ISBN 9781598745436, page 184:
 * It is the latter perspective that places souvenirs in the realm of having questionable meanings and, in the case of commemorabilia available at sites of tragedy, being socially deceptive, engendering "the consumption of mourning and the kitschification of grief".