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Broadsides
 Websites presented in alphabetical order "I Do Solemnly Swear ... ": Presidential Inaugurations 
 "Approximately 400 items or 2,000 digital files from each of the 54 inaugurations from George Washington's in 1789 to George W. Bush's inauguration of 2001. This presentation includes diaries and letters of presidents and of those who witnessed inaugurations, handwritten drafts of inaugural addresses, broadsides, inaugural tickets and programs, prints, photographs, and sheet music." From the Library of Congress American Memory Collection. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pihtml/ Topics: Correspondence, Photograph Collections: History, The United States Presidency Last updated Apr 27, 2005 "The Decisive Day Is Come": The Battle of Bunker Hill
The story of the famous battle of June 17, 1775 is told here with "personal accounts and eyewitness descriptions of the battle, along with contemporary maps, drawings, engravings, broadsides, and artifacts, either preserved by the participants or found on the battlefield." Also includes biographical sketches of the authors and recipients of the documents presented. From the Massachusetts Historical Society. http://www.masshist.org/bh/ Topics: Nonfiction by Genre, United States History, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Jun 16, 2005 Alcohol, Temperance & Prohibition
This site provides images of "broadsides, sheet music, pamphlets and government publications" that have been collected at Brown for over three centuries for researchers ... interested in American history, including the history of alcoholism, and in how the media was used for spreading ideas and information, and in how the arts presented various movements." Also includes a historical essay. Searchable, or browsable by document creator, publisher, or title. From Brown University Library. http://dl.lib.brown.edu/temperance/ Topics: Activism, Drugs & Medications by Type, Nonfiction by Genre, Society & Social Science, Society & Social Science Last updated Feb 22, 2005 An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera
A collection of over 7,000 advertisements, catalogs, newspaper clippings, leaflets, menus, pamphlets, proclamations, programs, timetables, and other ephemera. Searchable by keyword, and browsable by author, title, genre, and originating location. Items "capture the experience of the American Revolution, slavery, the western land rush, the American Civil War, woman suffrage, and the Industrial Revolution from the viewpoint of those who lived through those events." From the American Memory Project, Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/rbpehtml/ Topics: Black Resources, Labor, Nonfiction by Genre, Technology Last updated Jul 10, 2008 Best of Times: The Theatre of Charles Dickens
"Dickens's passion for the theater began in his childhood; his influence upon the theater continues today. [This exhibition] is illustrated with rare 19th-century broadsides, prints, posters, photographs, programs, and the original, annotated promptbooks used by Dickens during his vastly popular public readings." Dickens is highlighted "as performer, as playwright, and as the author upon whose works countless adaptations for the theater have been based." From the New York Public Library. http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/dickens/ Topics: Authors by Region, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, Writing Last updated Mar 16, 2004 Bodleian Library
Great Britain's Oxford University provides Web access to its online catalog, OLIS. Access to other sources is password protected, but links are provided to Oxford's Internet projects, such as the collections of Broadside Ballads, Celtic Manuscripts and some of the map collections. http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ Topics: Librarianship, Nonfiction by Genre Last updated Apr 28, 2004 Canadian Pamphlets and Broadsides
Digital collection of pre-1930 Canadian pamphlets and broadsides (single-sheet printed material used for advertising and promotion). Approximately 20,000 images are represented here, of subjects ranging from political campaigns to company reports. From the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto. http://link.library.utoronto.ca/broadsides/ Topics: History By Place, Libraries & Archives by Type, Nonfiction by Genre Last updated Apr 1, 2006 Chicago Anarchists on Trial: Evidence from the Haymarket Affair, 1886-1887
"This collection showcases more than 3,800 images of original manuscripts, broadsides, photographs, prints and artifacts relating to the Haymarket Affair. The violent confrontation between Chicago police and labor protesters in 1886 proved to be a pivotal setback in the struggle for American workers' rights." Search by keyword or browse by subject, names, or transcript and exhibits from the trial of Illinois vs. August Spies et al. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ichihtml/ Topics: Activism, Labor, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, U.S. History By Place, United States History Last updated Mar 3, 2004 The Crisis of the Union: An Electronic Archive of Documents about the Causes, Conduct, and Consequences of the US Civil War
A collection of "pamphlets, books, broadsides, cartoons, clippings, paintings, maps, and other print memorabilia about America from circa 1830 to 1880. Items are drawn primarily from the collection of the Library Company of Philadelphia." Browsable (by author, title, subject, date) and searchable (by keyword, date, subject, graphic elements). Archived by the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image (SCETI), University of Pennsylvania Library. http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/civilwar/ Topics: Black Resources, Labor, Nonfiction by Genre, United States History, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Nov 28, 2004 The Dramas of Haymarket
A history of the Haymarket Affair and the emerging power of labor, putting it in context beginning with the Great Chicago Fire and the national railroad strike of 1877. Presented as a tragedy in five acts with prologue and epilogue, this history includes visual materials, artifacts, video segments (requires QuickTime), and various documents. Archives contains "copies of most of the original manuscripts, artifacts, broadsides, photographs, prints, transcript of witness testimony and the accompanying evidence from the trial," and more.There are also suggested readings. From the Chicago Historical Society and Northwestern University. http://www.chicagohistory.org/dramas/ Topics: Activism, Labor, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, Political Parties & Theories, U.S. History By Place, United States History Last updated Feb 25, 2004 Encyclopedia of Chicago
"Thousands of historical resources--including articles, photos, maps, broadsides and newspapers--related to Chicago's colorful and complex history are at your fingertips." Includes authored entries and special features on water in Chicago, labor unrest in 1886, video clips (of politicians, entertainers, and more), and a timeline. Searchable and browsable. From the Chicago Historical Society, the Newberry Library, and Northwestern University. http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org Topics: Nonfiction by Genre, U.S. History By Place Last updated Jun 29, 2005 The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820
This collection of "original historical material documenting the land, peoples, exploration, and transformation of the trans-Appalachian West" features materials on Native Americans, blacks, women, leaders, industry, agriculture, and more. Includes books, periodicals, pamphlets, scientific publications, broadsides, letters, journals, legal documents, financial records, maps, artifacts, and pictorial images -- all from the holdings of the University of Chicago Library and the Filson Historical Society of Louisville, Kentucky. From the Library of Congress American Memory Project. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/icuhtml/fawhome.html Topics: Agriculture, Black Resources, Correspondence, Geography, Nonfiction by Genre, U.S. History By Place, United States History, Water Last updated Feb 4, 2005 The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress
This site collects approximately 2,000 items about "Douglass's life as an escaped slave, abolitionist, editor, orator, and public servant." Searchable by keyword, and browsable by series (family papers, pamphlets, brochures, speeches, reports, broadsides, newspaper clippings, manuscripts, typescripts, articles, and maps). Includes biographical timeline, a family tree, links to full texts of Douglass's autobiographies, and related resources. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/doughtml/ Topics: Black Resources, Nonfiction by Genre, Notable People, United States History Last updated Jan 6, 2004 Mark Twain at Large: His Travels Here and Abroad
An exhibition devoted to the travels of Mark Twain, "from his earliest trips in America to his final visit to Bermuda in 1910." Includes photographs, letters, notebooks, broadsides, and other ephemera. From the Mark Twain Papers of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/MTP/ Topics: Correspondence, Nonfiction by Genre, Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Travel Last updated Aug 25, 2004 Modern American Poetry
A collection of over 150 poets that "includes excerpts from interesting analyses of poems, biographical information, relevant illustrations (such as book jackets, broadsides, paintings, drawings, comics, and photographs), manuscripts, drafts of poems, bibliographies, historical background, statements on poetics, interviews, mini-essays on important issues pertinent to the poet, book reviews, archival resources, and study questions." The alphabetical list of poets also contains the themes Angel Island Poetry and Japanese American Concentration Camp Haiku . A multimedia companion to the Anthology of Modern American Poetry published by Oxford Press, 2000. http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/ Topics: Literary Movements and Periods, Nonfiction by Genre, Poetry Last updated Sep 29, 2009 Pennsylvania German Broadsides: Windows Into an America Culture
Exhibit of broadsides, "pieces of paper printed on one side, for sale or distribution at fairs, markets, or by peddlers who roamed the countryside with them. Some, like baptismal and marriage certificates, were kept, while others were often discarded after use. ... Local printers are still producing broadsides of all sorts." Images are accompanied by texts about the broadside in public and private life. From the Library Company of Philadelphia. http://www.librarycompany.org/broadsides/ Topics: Nonfiction by Genre, U.S. History By Place Last updated Apr 19, 2006 The Word on the Street: How Ordinary Scots in Bygone Days Found Out What Was Happening
"The National Library of Scotland's online collection of nearly 1,800 broadsides lets you see for yourself what 'the word on the street' was in Scotland between 1650 and 1910. Crime, politics, romance, emigration, humour, tragedy, royalty and superstitions — all these and more are here." Commentary accompanies images of the broadsides. Searchable; browsable by title or subject. Includes related readings and links. http://www.nls.uk/broadsides/ Topics: Literature: Fiction, Nonfiction by Genre Last updated Jan 7, 2008 |
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