Broadsides

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One Mexican political broadsheet discussing events associated with the Pastry War that took place from 1838-1839.

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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.

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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.

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...

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Broadside with wood-engraved and letterpress elements, addressed in ms. on verso to Elijah Fuller, Esq. of Fayetteville, Georgia.

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,...

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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.

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Two political broadsides relating to John M. Miller's campaign for the office of mayor of Cordova, Alabama, possibly in 1947.

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Broadside listing the thirteen rules of conduct for "all concerned" which included: freedmen, employers, and employees regardless of color.

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...

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Early broadside offering a reward for two runaway slaves.

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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.

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The collection contains a variety of broadsides in the W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library.

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...