A rare 1806 Pro-Federalist broadside mocking printer James Cheetham and New York Democrat-Republicans. In this satirical 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 scarce collection of political songs promoting the 1872 Republican Party ticket. Set to tunes of then-popular songs such as “Yankee Doodle” and others, these songs variously touch upon Grant and Wilson’s campaign (“O, General Grant’s the Man,” “Grant’s What’s the Matter,” “Grant, Wilson, and Success”), race-relations (“The Klu-Klux Ghost,”.....
An unrecorded and vividly printed handbill in the colors of the British suffrage movement advertising a 1912 lecture by renowned Suffragette and leftist social organizer Sylvia Pankhurst in Milwaukee, then a “Socialist city.” Sylvia Pankhurst made her appearance at Milwaukee’s landmark Pabst Theatre on the evening of Friday, February 2nd.....
A scarce anti-women’s suffrage broadside, evidently printed shortly before the ratification of the 19th amendment, using quotations from Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Woman’s Bible to attack the suffrage movement. Following a brief history of the Woman’s Bible and numerous quotations of “objectionable” passages, this broadside asks: “Are you willing for women.....
A scarce broadside in praise of the heroic conduct and “noble traits” of Andrew Neill, a Scottish-born Texan soldier and attorney campaigning for Lieutenant Governor as an independent in 1855. After immigrating to the United States as a young man and establishing himself as a probate judge in Mississippi, Andrew.....
This New York suffrage broadside from the 1915 Empire State Campaign names the ten western states that had already given over three million women the right to vote and asserts several reasons why the men of New York should be “as generous-minded,” including: “Women of New York are as intelligent.....
A scarce photograph of Cornelia Adele Fassett’s noted painting of the meeting of the Electoral Commission of 1877, accompanied by a broadside key. The 1877 Electoral Commission was a temporary body created by Congress to resolve the disputed 1876 presidential election between Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel J......
An apparently unrecorded illustrated broadside advertising the twentieth volume of a pro-Democrat weekly newspaper whose editors foretell the outbreak of the Civil War. This broadside was published sometime after Abraham Lincoln was elected President on November 6th, 1860 but before January 1st, 1861, when The Cleveland Weekly Plain Dealer issued.....
A broadside featuring a persuasive map, issued by the National Union Party near the end of the Civil War in an attempt to sway Democrats to reelect President Lincoln in 1864. Produced by The National Union Party—the name the Republican Party adopted for the 1864 national ticket—this broadside seeks to.....
This New York suffragist handbill, printed in advance of the 1917 New York State elections, lists some of the many ways that wives and husbands work together (the chores, the hay, the milking, the taxes, the mortgage, etc.) and asks “Why not vote together?” The last line encourages readers to.....
A rare and compelling broadsheet publication of a letter by Senator Timothy Pickering opposing President Thomas Jefferson’s Embargo Act of 1807. Timothy Pickering (1745–1829) was a Massachusetts statesman and Federalist who served as the third U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents Washington and Adams. Here Pickering writes as a Senator.....
This broadside reprints selections of a pro-suffrage speech from Colorado Representative Edward T. Taylor to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1812. Taylor’s remarks, grounded in his own state’s experience with women’s suffrage (which was passed into law in 1893), attempts to reassure worried listeners about perceived ill consequences of.....
A song sheet mourning President Lincoln, set to Stephen Foster’s tune Under the Willow. Upham’s lines crown Lincoln a “martyr” and call for national mourning: “Drape every dwelling in sable night: / Symbol of deep lamentation!” In addition, the song calls for “a garland of lilies white” to be wreathed.....
A song sheet mourning President Lincoln, set to Stephen Foster’s tune Under the Willow. The “bewailing” nation is here characterized as crying for “Lincoln, the merciful, doomed to die.” The first chorus calls for the punishment of John Wilkes Booth and crowns Lincoln a “martyr”: “Strike, strike the traitor down!.....
A fresh example of the fourth installment of Wright’s series of sporadically published manifestos, dedicated to the preservation of American democracy and economic autonomy; expressing animus towards fascism, communism, and all forms of empire. Wright delivers a blistering Independence Day message summed up as follows: “Let this truth come through.....