Broadsides and Ephemera Collection

Broadsides, pamphlets, form letters, posters, newspapers, tickets, and other printed items on a wide range of topics from across the World  More »

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Baugh's pure raw animal bone fertilizers bdsmd10885
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New Orleans Minstrels preliminary pictorial bdsla30650
View the highlight item: Birmingham Reform petition.
Birmingham Reform petition. bdsbi15018
View the highlight item: John L. Markham, Durham, N.C.
John L. Markham, Durham, N.C. bdsnc112283
View the highlight item: Consolidated Lamp and Glass Co., Coraopolis, Pa.
Consolidated Lamp and Glass Co., Coraopolis, Pa. bdspa032509
View the highlight item: List of 17 rice field Negroes for sale by J. S....
List of 17 rice field Negroes for sale by J. S.... bdssc022655

About the Digital Collection

The Broadsides and Ephemera Collection contains broadsides, pamphlets, form letters, posters, newspapers, tickets, and other short printed items dating from the eighteenth to the twentieth century (with the majority dating from the nineteenth century). Truly an interdisciplinary collection, the Broadsides and Ephemera Collection includes materials related to political campaigns, politics, theater, dance, popular entertainments, immigration and emigration, advertising, travel, expositions, military recruitment and campaigns, as well as issues related to race, class, gender, and religion.


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