Guide to the Broadside Collection , Mss. 1.14

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Container List

id60938

Series 1: Broadsides donated by Chris Vinyard and acquired through the Vinyard endowment

1967-2013 and undated

Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id60939
Three Broadsides by Russel Maret
2007 and undated
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents Includes 3 broadsides by Russell Maret:"Thou Shalt Not Kill" (#10/50)"Early Christian Study 1" (#6/8)"Early Christian Study 2" (#18/20) Acc. 2009.405
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id70971
Three Broadsides
1967, 1977, 1994
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents - Brewhouse Broadsheet Number Two "The Dance of Death" by Roderick Cave, 1967 - Wood engraving by Moses Berry of Arthur MacApline's poem "Revolt" Northampton, Pennyroyal Press, 1977. Signed by Moser. - John DePol: "Freedom of the Press Belongs to Those Who Can Defend It." Pentagram Press, 1994. Signed by DePol. Large Wood engraving of a pair of crossed pistols, with bullet hole and text beneath. Acc. 2010.297
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id93074
Three Broadsides
2010-2011
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents Includes two broadsides advertising forthcoming works, including "A Roman Inscription on Santi Giovanni E Paolo al Celio" and Specimens of Alphabets Designed or Revived by Russell Maret," both by Russell Maret. There is also a broadside entitled "New Year's Greetings from Russell and Annie," which includes an epigram from W. H. Auden. 2011.331.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id207298
Happy MMXIII Broadside
2013
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents Broadside with a perfect black and white circle with "Happy MMXIII" writen in red by printer Russell Maret and his wife, Annie Schlechter. The circle was featured in the book Interstices & Intersections: The Dreaded Book X & Super Deluxe Paper. Acc. 2013.065

id65968

Series 2: Broadside Additions

1812-1949, and undated

Scope and Contents

Includes these accessions from backlog processed in 2008. 1989.26, 2008.174

Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 2 id65101
Broadsides - Political
1848, 1897, 1918, 1928, 1940 and 1948
Scope and Contents
People's Party of Virginia. Political platform for Edmund R. Cocke of Cumberland, Virginia for Lieutenant- Governor. 1897 Senate and House Standing Committees in Virginia for 1940 Session. Advertising material for campaigns of Wendell Willkie and Henry Wallace. Mention of not having a third term. 1940. Berkley D. Adams endorsed by The Farmville Herald (V.A.) for membership in State Corporation Commission. March 1918. State of Virginia, The People's Ticket for President, Zachary Taylor. November 7, 1848. Communist Party in Virginia. Flyers. 1946-1947. "Is Southern Protestantism More Intolerant than Romanism," by James Cannon, Jr. of Richmond, Virginia. A rebuttal against Governor Alfred E. Smith. October 22, 1928.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 2 id65102
Broadsides - Public Sales of Land and Personal Property
1873-1917
Scope and Contents
Brunswick Co., V.A. Undated. Campbell Co. V.A., Richard Perkins, Auction. Colombia, South Carolina. Undated. Guilford County, N.C. 1891. Charles R. Harmon, Mt. Clinton, 1917. Isle of Wight. 1881-1895. Nansemond County and City of Suffolk Public Sales. Virginia. 1873-1901 Nelson County, P.B. Cabell Public Sale of Stock, Farming Implements...1875 Southampton Co. V.A. 1887-1897.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 2 id65103
Broadsides - Virginia
1900-1941 and undated
Scope and Contents
"Clover Fields", Lodging in Albermarle County, Virginia. Military Tournament and Athletic Exhibition at U.S. Army Training Detachment. Richmond, 1918. Keswick Hunt Club, Grand Tournament. Nov. 9, 1900. Dietz Press, Publishers, Richmond, Virginia. Advertising for Fun books. 1941. Poem, "The Old House Speaks" by Helen Talbot Porter. Song "O' I'm a Good Old Rebel!" dedicated to Hon. Thad Stevens. Undated. Advertisement of the "American Clipper" for Virginia items. January 1940. Advertisement- R.L. Williams, Richmond, Virginia. Undated.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 2 id65104
Broadsides - War
1812 and 1940
Scope and Contents
"General Pershing…" Urges aid to Britain. Durham Sun. Durham, North Carolina. August 14, 1940 "Revolutionary War- Invalid Pensions and Bounty Land Claims, &c., Additional Bounty Land to the Soldiers of the War of 1812, &c". Washington D.C. Jno. E. Baker, Agent.
id72099
Richmond Dispatch Calendar
1866
Scope and Contents
Richmond Dispatch broadside with monthly calendars on the sides, with advertisement "Daily, Semiweekly and Weekly, The Cheapest and Best paper published in Richmond."
Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 3 id65983
Broadsides
1842, 1903 and undated
Scope and Contents
Chas. King Son, Wholesale Grocers, Alexandria, Va. Advertising, 1903; Advertising for Brown's weather strips, undated; E.G. Rideout and Co. blank order form for outfits, undated; Woolson Sopice Co.: "The Easter Season", undated Fayal Hotel, undated Wade and Butcher razor, undated; Letton Museum, Cincinnati: "Beauties of Mechanism, termed the Hall of Industries", undated; "Great Historical Paintings in the Interest of the Benefit Association of Keithsburg", undated; Mercantile Library Association Sixteenth Annual Course of Lectures to be delivered at The Broadway Tabernacle. 1842; "The 'Goliath' a Launching Song, by William Clark" to the tune of "Arethusa;" and 8 verses about Briton and the Navy ship, Goliath. Printed by A.T. Fordham, Chatham. July 25, 1842. 2009.603
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 id70998
William Rouse Cabinet Broadside
1859
Scope and Contents
Copy of broadside for William Rouse, Cabinet Manufacturer, Smithfield, Va. Gift of S.F. Royall, Jr. via the Williamsburg Historic Records Association. Acc. 1989.26
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 id70439
"Suburban Home, Farming and Grazing Tracts at Public Auction"
1949
Scope and Contents
Referring to 3 parcels of land near Harrisburg, Virginia and posted by Everett L. Wilkinson. Acc. 2010.232.
id307587
1920's Auction for Scotland Wharf Subdivision Houses in Jamestown, Virginia

Scope and Contents
Acc. 2015.035