Here we have a fantastic ephemera archive from the legendary Joshua Light Show company, straight from the late 60s or early 70s. Not your typical fare because ephemera was usually destroyed. But now you’re looking at right at some cool relics. You have the official letterhead, the template to make the letterhead, an envelope, and another template with original notes. Amazing. Let’s jump right in.
Here’s some background info about the Joshua Light Show, courtesy of Wikipedia:
The Joshua Light Show, created by Joshua White, was a liquid light show. It was known for its psychedelic art and served as a lighting backdrop behind many live band performances during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Joshua White studied electrical engineering, theatrical lighting, and magic lantern techniques at Carnegie Tech and also film making at University of Southern California. Performances were held every weekend. The light shows used multiple image-making devices including film projectors, slide projectors, overhead projectors, color wheels, watercolors, oil colors, and glass crystals. These all would be arranged on two levels for their performances. The Joshua Light Show based their shows on four elements; projection of pure color, concrete imagery, variety of color effects and shaping of the light.
The Joshua Light Show has provided visual backgrounds for Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead, the Who, Jefferson Airplane, the Band, the Doors, Frank Zappa, Lou Reed, Television, Vanilla Fudge and Ravi Shankar among others. The light show appeared on the back cover of Jimi Hendrix's album Band of Gypsies and the front cover of Iron Butterfly's album In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Check out this great page about this history of this historic company, complete with a great photo: https://www.joshualightshow.com/about-classic/joshua-light-show-1967-68
The vintage psychedelic archive comes out of an estate of a collector who traveled with them for 20 years back in the day.
The historic ephemera archive has evidence of age throughout and is in vintage condition. Please see all pics as they are part of the description.
I ship FedEx to street addresses in the continental USA (no PO Boxes please). Free shipping on the historic archive.
Who thought letterhead would be so historic? Or look this good?
