A poignant broadside published by a relative of a young man who drowned when the steamer Bavarian burned on Lake Ontario, describing his appearance and other distinguishing features that would help identify his body. Published after the Bavarian was consumed by fire fifteen miles off shore on November 5th, 1873.....
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.....
An apparently unrecorded War of 1812 broadside, featuring a series of vignettes depicting American naval victories, evidently published in response to Oliver Hazard Perry’s victory on Lake Erie in September of 1813, an image of which takes pride of place at the top. Included here are twelve vignettes, ten of.....
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 in 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 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......
An apparently unrecorded broadside, published by noted anti-Federalist printer Thomas Greenleaf, offering a reward for the return of a runaway blacksmith’s apprentice in New York. Eighteen-year-old Jesse Coe ran away from his master Edward Leverich in New-Town, Long Island, on June 17th, 1792. This broadside, printed three months later, announces.....
An unrecorded and appealing broadside for a Boston hotel “on the European plan.” This illustrated broadside advertises the various “Advantages of the Falmouth House,” which include its convenient proximity to railroads and streetcars and its “first-class Dining Room.” Rates ranged from fifty to seventy-five cents per day per person, or.....
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.....
A rare broadside for this spectacle of automation, performed in Philadelphia by a German inventor, musician, and master showman whose automatic chess player was the subject of an essay by Edgar Allen Poe, and for whose mechanical orchestra Beethoven composed. The show advertised by this broadside comprised four spectacles: the.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
An attractive brochure for Santa Fe’s first centennial-style exposition, which was held to boost investment and tourism after the city was bypassed by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. Claiming to mark one third of a millennium since the founding of the city, The Santa Fe Tertio-Millennial Anniversary Character.....
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’.....
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.....
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 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 rare broadside printing a temperance text that also appeared in pamphlet form, illustrated with two wood engravings depicting the evils of drink. Printed in England and Scotland in the 1820s, the pamphlet version of The Wonderful Advantages of Drunkenness appeared in Boston as early as 1823, and was.....
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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.....