Includes 15,000 broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900; also 15,000 pieces of ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900. Based on the American Antiquarian Society's landmark collection of American broadsides and ephemera. Facsimile images are full-color and fully searchable. Browse by genre, subject, author, place of publication, or language.
Subjects include contemporary accounts of the Civil War, unusual occurrences and natural disasters to official government proclamations, tax bills and town meeting reports.
American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I, 1760-1900 also offers autobiographies and dying confessions of convicted criminals, theater playbills, sheet almanacs, publishers' prospectuses, advertisements, newspaper carriers' addresses, patriotic and popular songs and poems and items illustrating political party organizations and controversies.
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