Playbills (Posters)
Subject
Subject Source: Fast
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Americas collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 518
Abstract:
Original letters, broadsides, pamphlets, printed materials and books documenting the 19th century and early 20th century political and cultural relationships between the United States, Mexico, Central and South America, Cuba, Spain, and Portugal.
Dates:
1811-1920
Angela Davis Broadside
Collection
Identifier: MS 992
Scope and Contents
Single broadside calling for a meeting at the YMCA at 52nd Street and Sansom Street by the West Philadelphia Committee to free Angela Davis and all political prisoners.
Dates:
1972
Charlotte and Maximilian Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 356
Overview
Original letters from Charlotte of Belgium, chiefly as Carlota, Empress of Mexico; papers of Felix Eloin, Maximilian’s chef du cainet civil; photographs, engravings, and drawings of Charlotte, of Mexico City, and of members of the Mexican military. Mexican sheet music from 1859-1908 and newsclippings also reflect the colection' s main subjects of political and military matters in Mexico during the reign of Emperor Maxilimilian, the role of Juan Benitez and other political figures of the time,...
Dates:
1846 - 1927
Confederate Imprint collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 071
Overview
Official documents, books, advertisements, religious pamphlets, maps, and various other materials related to life in the Confederacy during the period of the U.S. Civil War.
Dates:
1855-1879
Importance of Women's Votes by Representative Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts, broadside
Collection
Identifier: MS 605
Overview
Small broadside written by U.S. Representative Edith Nourse Rogers articulating an appeal to women voters to use their votes to "stabilize...this extraordinary era of experimental administration under which we have been living during the past four years."
Dates:
ca. 1936
John H. Wright U.S. Civil War and related ephemera collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 061
Abstract:
U.S. Civil war imprints and currency, various 19th century broadsides, brief histories of Army Generals including U.S. Grant, W.T. Sherman, A.E.Burnside, and others, as well as other ephemera such as Mussolini's shaving kit. This material was collected over a period of years by John H. Wright.
Dates:
1838-1936
"On the Flogging of Women" commentary
Collection
Identifier: MS 100
Overview
Document is an anonymous commentary on an article appearing in the February 28, 1827 edition of “The Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter” that discussed propositions put forward by Lord Bathurst for reforms in the treatment of enslaved people in the Colonies; in particular, a prohibition of the flogging of women, which failed to pass.
Dates:
1827