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Playbills (posters)

 Subject
Subject Source: Fast

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Americas collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0518
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 0992
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 0356
Abstract 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...
Dates: 1846 - 1927

Confederate Imprint collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0071
Abstract

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 0605
Abstract

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 0061
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 0100
Abstract

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