Check It Out: American Broadsides & Ephemera, 1760-1900

American Broadsides & Ephemera, 1760-1900 is an amazing collection of electronic reproductions of playbills, posters, sheet music, tracts, and other short-lived texts and images that document the 18th and 19th centuries in America.

To see materials like those in the database in-person, be sure to visit Special Collections on the 4th floor of Clapp Library.

American Broadsides & Ephemera is part of the larger Archive of Americana electronic collection, which also includes:

• America's Historical Newspapers
• Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
• Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819

Image citation: Baker, William Emerson. "William Emerson Baker Requests the Presence of [Blank] at Ridge Hill Farms, Wellesley, Mass. On Saturday, June 19th, 1875, to Assist in Laying the Corner Stone of a New Piggery." 1875. http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:ABEA&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=10F4547E8D802D40&svc_dat=HistArchive:abeadoc&req_dat=0D1148C44D34AAD5.