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Pennsylvania German Broadsides: Windows Into an America Culture

Exhibit of broadsides, "pieces of paper printed on one side, for sale or distribution at fairs, markets, or by peddlers who roamed the countryside with them. Some, like baptismal and marriage certificates, were kept, while others were often disc ...

http://www.librarycompany.org/broadsides/

Bodleian Library

Great Britain's Oxford University provides Web access to its online catalog, OLIS. Access to other sources is password protected, but links are provided to Oxford's Internet projects, such as the collections of Broadside Ballads, Celtic Manuscripts a ...

http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/

Encyclopedia of Chicago

"Thousands of historical resources--including articles, photos, maps, broadsides and newspapers--related to Chicago's colorful and complex history are at your fingertips." Includes authored entries and special features on water in Chicago, ...

http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org

Modern American Poetry

A collection of over 150 poets that "includes excerpts from interesting analyses of poems, biographical information, relevant illustrations (such as book jackets, broadsides, paintings, drawings, comics, and photographs), manuscripts, drafts of poems ...

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/

The Word on the Street: How Ordinary Scots in Bygone Days Found Out What Was Happening

"The National Library of Scotland's online collection of nearly 1,800 broadsides lets you see for yourself what 'the word on the street' was in Scotland between 1650 and 1910. Crime, politics, romance, emigration, humour, tragedy, royalty and su ...

http://www.nls.uk/broadsides/

"The Decisive Day Is Come": The Battle of Bunker Hill

The story of the famous battle of June 17, 1775 is told here with "personal accounts and eyewitness descriptions of the battle, along with contemporary maps, drawings, engravings, broadsides, and artifacts, either preserved by the participants o ...

http://www.masshist.org/bh/

Best of Times: The Theatre of Charles Dickens

"Dickens's passion for the theater began in his childhood; his influence upon the theater continues today. [This exhibition] is illustrated with rare 19th-century broadsides, prints, posters, photographs, programs, and the original, annotated pr ...

http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/dickens/

Canadian Pamphlets and Broadsides

Digital collection of pre-1930 Canadian pamphlets and broadsides (single-sheet printed material used for advertising and promotion). Approximately 20,000 images are represented here, of subjects ranging from political campaigns to company reports. Fr ...

http://link.library.utoronto.ca/broadsides/

"I Do Solemnly Swear ... ": Presidential Inaugurations

"Approximately 400 items or 2,000 digital files from each of the 54 inaugurations from George Washington's in 1789 to George W. Bush's inauguration of 2001. This presentation includes diaries and letters of presidents and of those who witnessed ...

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pihtml/

An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera

A collection of over 7,000 advertisements, catalogs, newspaper clippings, leaflets, menus, pamphlets, proclamations, programs, timetables, and other ephemera. Searchable by keyword, and browsable by author, title, genre, and originating location. Ite ...

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/rbpehtml/

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