A scarce, large, and striking women’s suffrage banner in colors unusual for the American movement, probably commissioned by the Women’s Political Union of either New York or New Jersey. This banner was printed by the Calhoun Steam Printing Company of Hartford, Connecticut, best known for printing mammoth posters and theatrical.....
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.....
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.....