Regional History Broadsides, [ca. 1840-1985.]
Collection Number: 6629
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University
Library
Title:
Regional history broadsides,
[ca. 1840-1985.]
Collection Number:
6629
Creator:
Quantity:
ca. 4400 items.
Forms of Material:
Printed materials, newspapers and publications.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library
Abstract:
Broadsides (sizable sheets of paper printed on one side and
sheets of paper printed on one or both sides and folded) mostly from New York State
on a variety of topics.
Language:
Collection material in English
Broadsides (sizable sheets of paper printed on one side and sheets of paper printed
on one or both sides and folded) mostly from New York State on a variety of topics.
Included are an 1844 notice of the sale of "valuable Indian lands" at public auction
in Buffalo, NY, a 1928 sanitarium menu, an appeal to purchase war savings stamps
with the slogan "Joan of Arc saved France; Women of America save your country," a
civil defense poster from the 1970s telling what to do in case of air raids or
atomic bomb attacks.
Cornell University broadsides advertising various events and lectures make up a
significant section. Other major subject categories include: advertisements,
agriculture, ballads, clothing, cures and remedies, education, elections,
entertainment (circus, excursions, men's talks, minstrel show, wild animal show),
farm equipment, fraternal organizations, government, investments, lands, military,
music, politics, railroads, religion, reward (wanted posters), social life
(including theater), stores, temperance, theater, transportation and communication
(mostly railroads, also stage coach), woman suffrage, World War I, and World War
II.
Names:
Cornell University -- History.
Cornell University
World War (1914-1918)
World War (1939-1945)
Subjects:
Regional history
World War, 1914-1918 -- Posters.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Posters.
War posters -- 20th century.
Visual communication -- History -- 19th
century.
Visual communication -- History -- 20th
century.
Manners and customs
Visual communication
War posters
Places:
New York (State) -- History
New York (State) -- Social life and
customs.
New York (State)
Form and Genre Terms:
Broadsides.
Posters.
History
Pictorial works
Posters
Cite As:
Regional History Broadsides, #6629. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Encapsulated World War I broadsides have been moved to Collection #4300.
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