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 broadside published during the 1864 presidential campaign, satirizing President Lincoln and articulating various Democratic criticisms. Dramatizing the question of whether the country ought to switch presidents during the War, these verses begin with Columbia bursting in on “lank Abraam” who is “lolling in his library chair.” Columbia asks.....
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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 unrecorded publisher’s broadside promoting a work on the Civil War chronicling the personal experience of the Union soldier, including anecdotes, songs, ballads, and humorous incidents of the war. Advertised here as including over 500 pages and more than 100 illustrations of Union and Confederate officers as well as scenes.....
A rare silk broadside announcing the celebration of the U. S. Centennial aboard the excursion steamer “Plymouth Rock,” in Shanghai, China. The day long program included a “Salute of One Hundred Guns at Sunrise,” a “national Salute at 12 Meridian,” a reading of the Declaration of Independence by O. B......
A very appealing advertising broadside issued by a Kalamazoo, Michigan iron manufacturer. Wiliam S. Lawrence and Dr. L. C. Chapin established the Kalamazoo Iron Works in 1848 and built steam engines, diamond iron plows, mill machinery, cultivators, and other tools and machines. Pictured in the center of this handsome broadside.....
This appealing and apparently unrecorded broadside advertises hiking excursions up Mt. Tamalpais, some 22 miles north of San Francisco in Marin County, California. “Personally conducted” by one Dawson Mayer, these excursions accommodated up to 60 people and cost $2.50, including a luncheon at the Tavern of Tamalpais. Offered between May.....
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.....
Printed over a century after the north and south parishes of Andover split in 1708, this broadside announces the auction of the South Parish Society’s meeting house. Church records reveal that, beginning in 1845, “Various attempts” had been made “to remove, reconstruct the old, as also to build a new.....
A spectacular oversize broadside on linen printed in three colors and multiple typefaces, advertising an agricultural fair in Dedham, Mass. in September of 1861. While the main event for the Dedhamites and others in the region would have been the horses and exhibitions of horsemanship advertised here, today it is.....
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.....
An illustrated broadside employing various racist tropes to explain local Republican election losses in Philadelphia in 1867, here characterized as the death of the "Great Negro Party." The broadside consists of a series of captioned wood-engravings, including the head of an African American man above a coffin accompanied by the.....
A broadside advertising an appearance of the original ‘Siamese Twins,’ Chang and Eng, featuring an evocative wood engraving of the brothers. A sensation across the U.S. and Europe during the 1830s, Chang and Eng were born co-joined at the sternum in Siam (present-day Thailand) in 1811. The twins were ‘discovered’.....
An apparently unrecorded Boston broadside advertising an early Civil War panorama by artists John Mix Stanley and Alban Jasper Conant, the latter known as one of the first artists to paint a portrait of Abraham Lincoln. Stanley and Conant’s “Polemorama”—a portmanteau of “panorama” and “polemania,” meaning a rage for war—was.....
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.....
A rare and beautifully hand-colored broadside advertising the latest venture of “the most famous and successful hotel proprietor” in Ohio, with later connections to the Underground Railroad. William Werden (1785–1869),“the most popular landlord in Ohio,” opened his National Hotel, here termed “Werden’s Hotel,” in Springfield in 1829 on the heels.....
A rare temperance broadside bearing the text of a more widespread American Tract Society pamphlet, augmented with two wood engravings depicting the evils of drink. The pamphlet version of The Wonderful Advantages of Drunkenness appeared in Boston as early as 1823, and was published by the American Tract Society in.....
An apparently unrecorded broadside advertising the Philadelphia exhibition of “the whole Art of Fancy Glass Blowing” by John Tilley, the first known itinerant glassworker to tour the United States. Besides being “an introduction to Pneumatics,” Tilley’s performance offered an array of spectacles: the “Spinning and Reeling [of] Hot Glass round.....
A rare handbill advertising the short-lived school of art conducted by James McNeill Whistler and Frederick MacMonnies in Paris. Printed in English on one side and French on the other, it advertises classes in painting, sculpture, and drawing, with a modèle vivant all day (and night lessons available as well).....
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A scarce set of six posters promoting the American Library Association’s Library War Service program during WWI, a wide-ranging and expansive initiative that distributed books and provided library services to U.S. servicemen at home and in Europe. In 1917, during the First World War, the American Library Association established.....
An unrecorded anti-slavery broadside responding to a local newspaper’s fearmongering by eloquently explaining the real “object and motives of the Anti-Slavery Society.” Abolitionism, as this broadside explains, is motivated by “humanity and justice,” and the aims of the Anti-Slavery Society are not, as the Rochester Gazette article evidently suggested, “to.....
An unrecorded broadside for a campaign biography of Grover Cleveland and his running mate Thomas Hendricks, published during the election of 1884. This broadside advertises Frank Triplett’s The Authorized Pictorial Lives of Grover Cleveland and Thomas A. Hendricks, a 660 page book on their lives and political careers. Cleveland and.....
A charming broadside advertising the services of American silhouettist Moses Chapman, illustrated with silhouette cuts of a man and a woman and specifying costs and other particulars. Chapman informs the public that he is available from 8:00 am to 9:00 pm, and takes “correct Profiles, reduced to any size, two.....
A rare and striking broadside issued by the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway, advertising the Rock Island through-express route and promoting the railroad’s numerous destinations, connections and amenities. Featuring the eye-catching mix of typefaces and colors that characterised railroad advertising in this era, this attractive broadside promotes the numerous.....
A broadside issued during the Pennsylvania oil rush by a Rouseville, Pennsylvania inventor advertising a flue scraper and wiper designed to address an inefficiency in boiler used in the oil fields. This broadside relates that $10,000 was lost by the owners of steam boilers and engines in the oil regions.....