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 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.....
Scarce and striking broadside for a Philadelphia civil rights rally in solidarity with Cairo, Illinois, which, although a small town, became a focal point of northern racist violence and civil rights activism in the 1960s and ‘70s. The “Cairo Solidarity Rally” was advertised for June 17, 1971 at Philadelphia’s long-standing.....