Broadsides
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms
Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:
1848 Revolution in Berlin collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 8036
Scope and content
Street posters, tracts, prospectuses, and newspapers, printed mostly during the 1848-9 Revolution in Berlin (capital of Prussia), later collected and numbered by Andrew D. White during his stay in Berlin as the fourth U.S. Ambassador to unified Germany (1879-81). Broadsides collected by A.D. White on the national movement and revolutions in the German states, documenting the movement toward national unity and democracy there during the 1848 revolution, aka "the Spring of Nations." Most...
Dates:
1836-1863-(bulk 1848-1849).
Advertisements from New York State
Collection — Manuscript box 79 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065253902]
Identifier: 1066m
Scope and content
Leaflets, broadsides, and handbills advertising various products and establishments, including tobacco, a bookstore, baking powder, silverware, canes, trees and shrubs, and a sewing machine. Most of the businesses mentioned are in New York State. Also included are the lyrics to a comic song, "New York Evacuation Day."
Dates:
circa 1859-1910.
Announcements of sermons and lectures
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070747724]
Identifier: 37-7-3895
Scope and content
Broadsides of Sage Chapel "University Sermons"; "University Lectures" in Barnes Hall, the Library Lecture Room, Morse Hall, Boardman Hall; Founders Day Addresses in the University Armory; and "University Readings" by Professor Hiram Corson. Mostly outside speakers, but also President Jacob Gould Schurman, Andrew Dickson White, Professor Hiram Corson, Professor Nathaniel Schmidt, andProfessor Charles M. Tyler,
Dates:
1901-1906.
Broadsides on Lee’s surrender and the capture of Jefferson Davis
Collection — Mapcase folder 1: [Barcode: 31924113559938]
Identifier: 8515
Scope and content
Large hand-lettered broadside announcing the end of the Civil War. Lettering is slightly blurred by offsetting caused when the broadside was folded. Manuscript note on verso reads: This Bulletin was displayed by Salmon & Co, Newsdealers, Cor Water & Second Sts at Newburgh, Orange Co, N.Y. on Monday, Apl. 10th 1865. C.H. King, Newburgh, N.Y. Apl. 12th 1865. Also, a large hand-lettered broadside announcing the capture of Jefferson Davis at Irwinsville (that is, Irwinville), Georgia, on...
Dates:
1865
Charlie Hebdo collection
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924088335017]
Identifier: 8500
Scope and content
Newspapers, broadsides, and bumper stickers reacting to the Charlie Hebdo attack. Includes a published statement from the Kurdish community in France condemning the attack. Newspapers include Il giornale (Milan), Charlie hebdo (Paris), La Repubblica (Rome), Semanario argentino (Miami, Florida), and Minute (Paris).
Dates:
2015.
Civil War songs and cartoons
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924113563666]
Identifier: 8582
Scope and content
Civil War songs printed as broadsides (words only), together with a small number of printed color cartoons with captions in verse. Songs include several about the recruitment of African American soldiers for the Union Army, published by the Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments. Individual titles include "The black regiment," "Old Shady," "Song of the Negro boatman," "Battle hymn of the Republic" (by Julia Ward Howe), "Song of the First of Arkansas," "Just before the battle,...
Dates:
circa 1861-1865.
Cornell University collection of white supremacist materials
Collection — Manuscript box ? - Folder 1: [Barcode: 31924131958724]
Identifier: 8949
Content Description
The Cornell University collection of white supremacist materials is an artificial collection which spans from the 19th to the 21st century. The collection contains printed pamphlets and broadsides created by proponents of white supremacy and racist ideologies, including "Ideals of the Ku Klux Klan", "Eugenics in relation to the New Family and the law on Racial Integrity" by the Bureau of Vital Statistics (1924), and a printed sheet titled "Food for Thought: for those who have read the...
Dates:
1924 - 1960
Cuba travel collection
Collection — Manuscript box 81 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065254272]
Identifier: 2194m
Scope and content
Broadsides, postcards, brochures, and pamphlets mainly concerning travel to Cuba, especially Havana. Includes advertisements for cruises, hotels, and city tours, a Cuba hotel directory, postcards of the Hotel Gran America, and guidebooks to Havana sights, as well as two printed poems in Spanish and an advertisement for upcoming jai-alai matches. Advertisers include Greyhound bus company, the Peninsular & Occidental Steamship Company, Simone's Tours (affiliated with United Steamship...
Dates:
circa 1935-1936.
Emile Monnin Chamot items
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064944816]
Identifier: 14-8-489
Scope and content
Newspaper clippings, broadsides, a typewritten report, and other items relating to Professor Chamot and his experience as a participant in the faculty exchange program. In the report, Chamot describes how the program went and comments candidly on its successes and problems. Broadsides include announcements of Chamot's lectures at various French universities, and also information on degree programs and courses of study offered by those universities in chemistry, pharmacy, and related fields...
Dates:
1924-1926.
Erasmus Bennett wagon brake documents
Collection — Manuscript box 23 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065244620]
Identifier: 442m
Scope and content
Two copies of a broadside advertising Erasmus Bennett's self-acting wagon brake, patented in 1864, with directions for mounting it on a wagon, printed by Spencer & Williams in Ithaca, New York; three blank printed receipts for payment for the right to use and sell the brake in a particular town, dated 1860s; one sheet with directions for mounting the brake, printed by Spencer & Williams in Ithaca; and one manuscript document agreeing to pay to "Charles Brown or bearer" five dollars...
Dates:
circa 1864.