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A la Magnanima Nacion Mexicana
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4292
Abstract
One Mexican political broadsheet discussing events associated with the Pastry War
that took place from 1838-1839.
Dates:
1838
Alabama Senate Rules Broadside
Collection
Identifier: MSS-5054
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a rare broadside titled Rules for the Senate 1857, printed in Montgomery, Alabama. The broadside outlines fifty-five procedural rules governing the Alabama Senate in the years immediately preceding the Civil War. Of particular historical significance is Rule 40, which mandates that all resolutions concerning slavery, interstate relations, or communications with the federal government be read three times in the Senate before...
Dates:
1857
Anti-Andrew Jackson Broadside
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4890
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a single large political broadside entitled "An Account of Some of the Bloody Deeds of General Jackson" produced during the 1828 U.S. presidential campaign. The broadside features vivid woodcut illustrations of seventeen coffins, each representing an individual allegedly executed on the orders of Andrew Jackson. These include six Tennessee militiamen court-martialed and executed during the Creek War, additional soldiers, Native American prisoners, and victims of...
Dates:
1814
Bobalition of Slavery 1822 Broadside
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4323
Scope and Contents
One broadside from an 1816-1837 contemporary Bobalition series that satirized the annual July 14th Abolition Day celebrations for African Americans. This broadside has an imprint from "The Flying Booksellers," a woodcut image, and text in three columns.
Dates:
1822-07-15
Broadside Accusing Congressman Daniel Marcy of Copperhead Sympathies
Collection
Identifier: MSS-5031
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a broadside accusing Congressman Daniel Marcy of having Confederate sympathies during the Civil War. Entitled The Record of a Cooperhead. How Daniel Marcy Helped the Rebels! His Base Betrayal of the State!, the broadside is divided into three sections. They feature the only speech Marcy gave in Congress and details of his record, which include tabling a resolution to abolish slavery and voting against the appeal of the Fugitive Slave...
Dates:
1876
Calderón Broadside Calling for Recognition of Emperor Agustín de Iturbide
Collection
Identifier: MSS-5017
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a broadside calling for ceremonies in Mexico's most important cities to publicly introduce and recognize the authority of Emperor Agustín de Iturbide. The decree is written by José María Calderón, a brigadier in the imperial army and the governor of the province of Puebla. The proclamation announces that it was to be posted in public places, ensuring both the public and ruling authorities were made aware of the new leader. Published by Pedro de la Rosa, a government...
Dates:
1822-09-14
Carlos López Torrija Broadside
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4797
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a rare late seventeenth-century broadside issued by Carlos López Torrija, a legal authority of the Real Audiencia of Mexico (the high court of New Spain), printed in Puebla de los Ángeles by Diego Fernández de León. The document addresses legal irregularities in the collection of ecclesiastical tithes ("diezmos") related to agricultural production on hacienda lands in the Puebla region. Specifically, Torrija seeks to regulate and halt exploitative practices...
Dates:
1687
Durst Family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0461
Abstract
Letters, newspapers, and miscellaneous documents from the Durst family. There is also a World War One era panoramic photograph and United Stated Service, or Blue Star Mother's flag.
Dates:
1708 - 1977; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1868
Entertainment in Mexico Broadsides
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4327
Scope and Contents
This collection of two broadsides published by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo and illustrated by José Guadalupe Posada demonstrates entertainment papers that were circulated in Mexico at the turn of the nineteenth century. One broadside advertises a reenactment of the Third Battle of Puebla and one illustrated broadside, partially written in verse, reports on a sensational murder by a woman. Both broadsides are written in Spanish.
Dates:
1894 - 1910
Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty and Pension Association of America Documents
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4904
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a rare original broadside charter and one membership certificate for Alabama chapters of the Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty and Pension Association of America, dated 1899. The document, printed on a folio broadside (20 x 13.75 inches) with ornate border and varied typography, includes the formal charter text, completed with the names of local chapter officers and signed by three national officers: Rev. D.D. McNairy (President), I.H. Dickerson (General Manager),...
Dates:
1899 - 1903
Gabriel Moore Broadside
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4730
Scope and Contents
This broadside, signed by the Governor of Alabama at the time, expresses an "increased and strengthened confidence in the fitness of Andrew Jackson for the office of President," urging his re-election. It is also signed in print by the Alabama Speaker of the House of Representatives, James Penn, and the President of the Alabama Senate, Samuel B. Moore. Especially pleasing to Alabama was Jackson's veto of he Maysville Road Bill, on the grounds that the Constitution did not...
Dates:
1830-12
Henry W. Rhodes Political Campaign Broadside
Collection
Identifier: MSS-5007
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a political broadside issued by Henry W. Rhodes, a Whig, during his campaign for Alabama's state senate in 1847. Addressed to the voters of Pickens County, it reviews Alabama's economy and focuses on banking, financial opportunities, and the difficulties in obtaining credit in the cotton industry. The broadside promises that if Rhodes is elected to the legislature, he will introduce a bill to establish a "stock bank" in Mobile to "meet the commercial necessities" of...
Dates:
1847-05-12
Hotchkiss' Premium Vertical Waterwheel and Appendages broadside
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3731
Abstract
Broadside with wood-engraved and letterpress elements, addressed in ms. on verso to Elijah Fuller, Esq. of Fayetteville, Georgia.
Dates:
1846-02-20
Hutchinson Family Singers Concert Broadside
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4784
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a rare printed broadside advertising a June 2, 1849, concert by the Hutchinson Family Singers in Portland, Maine, and includes a handwritten note on the verso by an unnamed concert attendee. The broadside announces a “Vocal Entertainment” by Judson, Abby, John, and Asa Hutchinson at City Hall and highlights two reform-oriented songs: "Glide on My Light Canoe (The Indian's Lament)" and "Uncle Sam’s Farm." These songs address themes of American Indian displacement,...
Dates:
1849
James C. Beard Broadside
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4849
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a large hand-colored lithograph titled The Fifteenth Amendment, Celebrated. May 19, 1870, created by James C. Beard and published in New York by Thomas Kelly in 1870. Measuring 32 x 26 inches, the print commemorates the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, which granted African American men the right to vote. The composition features a vibrant central image of a celebratory parade held in Baltimore, surrounded by sixteen...
Dates:
1870-05-19
Jere Clemens Dennis Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0428
Abstract
Personal, family, and business papers of a Tallapoosa County attorney, including legal case files as well as Sons of Confederate Veterans, Alabama National Guard, and Masonic materials.
Dates:
1841 - 1935
John M. Miller Broadsides
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0990
Abstract
Two political broadsides relating to John M. Miller's campaign for the office of mayor of Cordova, Alabama, possibly in 1947.
Dates:
1947
José Guadalupe Posada Broadside
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4796
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a rare, large-format illustrated broadside produced in Mexico City in 1910 by the Imprenta de Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, with artwork by renowned Mexican printmaker José Guadalupe Posada. Issued in celebration of the centennial anniversary of Mexico’s first Declaration of Independence (1810), the recto features a powerful woodcut portrait of Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, surrounded by patriotic slogans: “¡Viva la Independencia Nacional de México del Año 1810!...
Dates:
1910
Office Sup't Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands Broadside
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4052
Abstract
Broadside listing the thirteen rules of conduct for "all concerned" which included: freedmen, employers, and employees regardless of color.
Dates:
1866-01-20
Oscar DePriest Broadside
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4745
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a broadside announcing a speech by Congressman Oscar DePriest at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church in Charleston, South Carolina, on March 6, 1931, at 8 PM. The broadside highlights DePriest’s historic significance as the only African American in Congress at the time, the first African American elected to Congress outside the South, and the first African American Congressman of the twentieth century.The text of the broadside praises...
Dates:
1931
Reward Broadside for Runaway Slaves
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3761
Abstract
Early broadside offering a reward for two runaway slaves.
Dates:
1833-04-09
Reward Notice collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1188
Abstract
Contains a collection of reward notices posted in Alabama for persons wanted for crimes committed in Alabama and other states. Various formats of notices are represented, including broadsides, letters, postcards, and telegrams. A large number of them are not dated.
Dates:
1876-1905
Satirical Broadside Responding to a Fifteenth Amendment Celebration
Collection
Identifier: MSS-5062
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a single satirical broadside titled Hedgehog’s Grand Combination of the Powers of Darkness, likely printed in Philadelphia on May 5, 1870. It advertises a fictitious performance at “Jake Key’s Roost,” featuring grotesque and racially charged imagery, including the mock feat of “swallowing a live negro.” The text reserves seats for “colored ladies” and restricts white attendance, parodying the racial dynamics of the time in a...
Dates:
1870-05-05
Save Our Land Join the Klan Broadside
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4813
Scope and Contents
This item is a broadside titled "Save Our Land Join the Klan," created by the United Klans of America, circa 1960s. Measuring 8.5 x 11 inches and printed in black ink on thick stock paper, the broadside features a stylized image of a robed Klansman atop a rearing horse, holding a flaming cross. The slogan "For God and Country" is printed across a grass-covered landscape, accompanied by the recruitment address: "Join the Klan, P.O. Box 2369, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35401." The item is notable...
Dates:
ca 1960s
W. S. Hoole Library Broadsides Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3727
Scope and Contents
The collection contains a variety of broadsides in the W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library.
Dates:
1860
White Supremacy Now and Forever Broadside by E.C. Barnard
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4754
Scope and Contents
This broadside contains excerpts from a 1957 speech by E.C. Barnard, a Mobile City Commission candidate and a leader in the local Ku Klux Klan. The document reflects the segregationist rhetoric of the period and serves as a historical artifact of the mid-twentieth-century struggle for civil rights in the American South.The 1957 local election in Mobile was a pivotal moment, with Joseph Langan, a moderate with progressive views on race, running against Barnard. The election also...
Dates:
1957