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,...

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...

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Advertisements warning of the dangers of alcohol: a hand-colored lithograph titled The drunkards progress, from the first glass to the grave, by N. Currier (New York: N. Currier, 1845); The crime that cops can't touch, by Leonard A. Paris (a page reproduced from an undated article in This Week magazine), includes image of the Drunk-O-Meter Breathalyzer; and a poster headed, For perfect co-ordination of eye and hand, avoid alcohol! (Evanston, Ill.: Alcohol Education, undated).