A rare 1806 Pro-Federalist broadside mocking printer James Cheetham and New York Democrat-Republicans. In this lyric broadside, New York Federalists deride fractious author and printer James Cheetham after learning he had farmed out printing work, then charged the state government at a 300+ percent markup as the way to “Cheat’em!”.....
A rare broadside printed for distribution at the 4th of July gathering of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in Abington, Massachusetts in 1848, an event attended by some 3000 to 5000 (according to The Liberator) and featuring a number of prominent abolitionists, including William Wells Brown and William Lloyd Garrison. This.....
This richly printed cigar advertisement was produced during the height of cigar production in Key West, a hub of the industry, by the New York lithographic firm of George Schlegel. A second-generation lithographer, Schlegel specialized in cigar box labels and advertising posters for the tobacco, liquor, and toiletry industries. The.....
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A delightful Pennsylvania-German birth and baptism certificate featuring a hand-colored “typotecture” border incorporating elements of the fraktur tradition. This broadside records the birth, on 29 June 1859, of one Allen Albert, the son of one David Bemer and his wife Maria (née Miller). The text is enclosed within an ornamental.....
An apparently unrecorded broadside printing of a fearmongering letter written from the storied Nitta Yuma plantation just a few months before the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, defending slavery, the Southern spirit, and all Southern states from hostile takeover by a “black avalanche.” Citing economic and population statistics—both Black and.....
A scarce broadside advertising a performance by a noted American humorist and author, “Mr. Burnett…the only living man that can, at the same time, laugh on one side of his face, and cry upon the other!” Mr. Alfred (so-called Alf) Burnett was known as a “fine elocutionist” whose “changes of.....
An rare broadside extra of the Sacramento Daily Union—the oldest daily newspaper west of the Mississippi—detailing a gang murder, with the confessions and last words of the perpetrators and an account of the execution; this example unique in bearing an autograph letter, signed, by a Yuba County gold miner on.....
An apparently unrecorded illustrated broadside advertising a performance of the globe-trotting Knoxville College Quartet early in the blockbusting “race record” era. The historically-Black Knoxville College was founded a decade after the Civil War by the United Presbyterian Church “to provide the most thorough literary, classical and scientific training, together with.....
An apparently unrecorded broadsheet picturing and describing the 1971 Anti-STRESS rally in Detroit and promoting membership in the Black Workers Congress. The rally took place on September 23rd, 1971: “THOUSANDS of Black workers, students, housewives turned out…to protest the outrageous slaughter of Black people occurring in plants, prisons, and our.....
A rare broadside announcing an upcoming “Horribles” Parade—a little-known but distinctly American celebration of parody and silliness originating in the early nineteenth century and still enjoyed in some New England communities today—with a reference to African American suffrage. “Horribles” Parades, also called “Antique and Horribles” Parades, emerged in the early.....
![Item #10172 Given Away Toy Samples of Swasey Stoneware[.] Finest Stoneware in the World](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/10172_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779183125)
An apparently unrecorded broadside advertising “toy samples” by a prolific Maine stoneware manufactory, illustrated with an original photograph of a little girl posing with a miniature teapot with Swasey Stioneware’s characteristic brown-glazed top and cream-colored bottom. Text on either side of the photograph announces Swasey wares to be “tough as.....
An apparently unrecorded broadside advertising excursions to California, organized by a Los Angeles company and featuring the luxurious sleeping cars of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, as shown in the illustration. Printed partially—and fittingly—in orange ink, this broadside rallies would-be travelers to “the Land of Orange Groves,” listing.....
A land promotion broadside advertising transportation via the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway to the company’s land grant and elsewhere. Promising the “shortest and quickest route” to points in Missouri, Arkansas and Texas, this broadside publishes the “liberal rates and allowance of baggage for Seekers of land in.....
An apparently unrecorded broadside detailing three bloody days in the final stages of the Modoc War, printed in Salt Lake City from a series of dispatches sent to San Francisco by U.S. troops pursuing Captain Jack (Kintpuash) and his comrades through the “Lava Beds” of northern California. Vivid updates from.....
A broadsheet advertising ornate designs for scroll saw work as well as scroll saws and related tools, offered by a Brooklyn-based tool dealer. One side of this broadsheet shows sixty-five numbered fretwork designs, which correspond to a price list on the verso. These include “Wheelbarrow, clover pattern,” “Fruit,” a “Photograph.....
A scarce illustrated campaign broadside for Whig candidate Henry Clay, published in Philadelphia and outlining his decades of achievements as a public servant. A detailed biography of Clay appears in two columns at the center, covering his humble beginnings and rapid rise in politics; his role in “rous[ing] the people.....
An unrecorded broadside printed by the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company (MKT), containing the text of the state of Texas’ 1907 separate cars law, mandating “separate but equal” train cars for Black passengers. Despite an anti-segregation statute passed during Radical Reconstruction in 1871, Jim Crow laws were quickly reintroduced to Texas in.....
A scarce Philadelphia broadside aimed at would-be agents for a popular—and enormous—legal guide. Over almost 700 pages in length, Hugh M. Spalding’s How To Be Your Own Lawyer : An Encyclopædia of Business Law and Forms (1877) is touted here as useful to just about every class of society: “Business.....
A rare broadside printing of the rules and regulations of Boston's York Fire Club, one of several mutual aid firefighting societies founded by city residents to supplement the efforts and equipment of the Board of Fire Wards, the predecessor of the Boston Fire Department (est. 1825). The second Great Fire.....
An apparently unrecorded broadside advertising lots in a nascent frontier town in Indiana, assuring readers that this promotion is more than mere “puff.” This broadside advertises forty lots for sale in the new neighborhood of Charleston, Indiana, which was laid out in 1837 by Joseph P. Anthony, a carpenter by.....
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An apparently unrecorded broadsheet advertising the sale of “good lands on Most Favorable Terms” in Saline and Gage Counties, Nebraska, with a map showing the available plots. Text on the recto of the broadsheet describes Saline County’s “natural physical features,” “climate and rainfall as factors in crop-growing,” “population and material.....
A very scarce broadsheet published by Students for a Democratic Society urging an allied strike by students and workers in the immediate wake of President Nixon’s mining of all north Vietnamese ports in 1972. Nixon’s Operation Pocket Money was an aerial mining campaign against North Vietnamese ports in order to.....
An unrecorded Confederate song-sheet published very early in the Civil War by an up-and-coming young bookseller and businessman in Jasper, Tennessee. The first of the two anonymously-authored songs printed here, “To Mr. Lincoln,” was evidently composed early in the conflict—before General Winfield Scott resigned as General-in-Chief of the Union armies.....
This illustrated tissue paper souvenir honors the “Captain, Mates, Crew, & Passengers who lost their lives by the foundering of the world’s largest liner, S. S. ‘Titanic’”, and is illustrated with an image of the ship “Whilst on Her Maiden Voyage from Southampton to New York.” A brief message from.....
A bold poster for New York’s 1915 suffrage campaign—the forerunner to the 1917 referendum which made New York the first eastern state to grant women the right to vote. Printed in the Empire State Campaign’s classic colors of blue and gold, this poster exhorts the New York’s male voters to.....