Inventory of the Miscellaneous Broadsides, 1814-1979

Collection Number 2874-z

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Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Contact Information:
Manuscripts Department
CB#3926, Wilson Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
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Descriptive Summary

Repository
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Title
Miscellaneous Broadsides, 1814-1979
Call Number
2874-z
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
Items: About 35
Abstract
A miscellaneous collection of broadsides, including posters, advertisements for various merchants and for a steamer cruise to Hatteras, N.C.; notice of an 1852 slave auction in Charleston, S.C.; political campaign items, including election returns for Frederick County, Va., 1843, and a sketch of John S. Wise, Republican candidate for governor of Virginia, 1885; a way-bill giving mileage for travel points between Asheville, N.C., and Knoxville, Tenn.; funeral announcements, 1867; news of the assasination of Lincoln, 1864, and of the Battle of Bladensburg, 1814; 1934; sheet music for the song "One Hundred Percent American," circa 1927, and lyrics for the "National Whig Song," circa 1840, and the "Democratic Campaign Song," 1876; a "Farmer's View of the Cotton Allotment Plan," 1934; posters relating to United States homefront support during World War II; a poster from a 1979 anti-Ku Klux Klan march and conference in Greensboro, N.C.; and other material intended chiefly for public posting.

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Administrative Information

Restrictions to Access
No restrictions.
Acquisitions Information
Received from various sources.
Processing Information
Processed by: Mark Beasley, April 1987
Encoded by: Roslyn Holdzkom, February 2007
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Miscellaneous Broadsides #2874-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

Advertising--United States--History.
Bill-posting.
Bladensburg, Battle of, Bladensburg, Md., 1814.
Broadsides--Southern States.
Charleston (S.C.)--History.
Greensboro (N.C.)--History.
Political campaigns--Virginia.
Elections--Virginia.
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Assassination.
Music--United States.
Political ballads and songs--United States.
Political posters.
Slave trade--South Carolina.
Slavery--South Carolina.
Whig Party (U.S.)--Songs and music.
Wise, John S. (John Sergeant), 1846-1913.
World War, 1939-1945--War work.
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Collection Overview

A miscellaneous collection of broadsides, including posters, advertisements for various merchants and for a steamer cruise to Hatteras, N.C.; notice of an 1852 slave auction in Charleston, S.C.; political campaign items, including election returns for Frederick County, Va., 1843, and a sketch of John S. Wise, Republican candidate for governor of Virginia, 1885; a way-bill giving mileage for travel points between Asheville, N.C., and Knoxville, Tenn.; funeral announcements, 1867; news of the assasination of Lincoln, 1864, and of the Battle of Bladensburg, 1814; 1934; sheet music for the song "One Hundred Percent American," circa 1927, and lyrics for the "National Whig Song," circa 1840, and the "Democratic Campaign Song," 1876; a "Farmer's View of the Cotton Allotment Plan," 1934; posters relating to United States homefront support during World War II; a poster from a 1979 anti-Ku Klux Klan march and conference in Greensboro, N.C.; and other material intended chiefly for public posting.

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Items Separated

Oversize papers (OP-2874/1-17)
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Detailed Description of the Collection

Broadsides, 1814-1979 and undated.
About 35 items.
Folder 1
Unit 1: Report of Battle of Bladensburg and other war news, 1814.
Unit 2: Announcement of peace, 1815 (OP-2874/1).
Unit 3: "National Whig Song," circa 1840.
Unit 4: Announcement of election returns for Frederick County, Va., 1843.
Unit 5: "Way-Bill of the Nearest and Best Road from Knoxville, Tenn. to Asheville, N.C.," circa 1850.
Unit 6: Announcement of auction of 25 slaves by Louis D. De Saussure, auctioneer, Charleston, S.C., 1852.(OP-2874/2).
Unit 7: Announcement of expenditures of the city council of Augusta, Va., 1859 (OP-2874/3).
Unit 8: Call for enlistment of Virginians in the Potomac Military Department by the Confederate States of America, Army of the Potomac, Brigadier General Philip Cocke, 1861 (OP-2874/4).

Digital version: Full text version of call for enlistment
Unit 9: Announcement of assassination of Abraham Lincoln, 1865.
Unit 10: Announcement of courses, regulations, and other information about Randolph-Macon College, Boydton, Va., 1866 [copy].
Unit 11: Announcement of death of Ermentine Poole of New Orleans, La., 1867.
Unit 12: Announcement to the voters of Augusta, Va., concerning the Valley Railroad, 1870 (OP-2874/5).
Unit 13: Open letter from John Garrett, president of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, concerning the involvement of citizens of Staunton, Va., with the Valley Railroad, 1870.
Unit 14: Announcement of death of Alexander Giquel White, son of Edmund and Clementine White, 1870.
Unit 15: "Harp of the Holidays," a holiday poem, Shenandoah, Va., 1872 (OP-2874/6).
Unit 16: Names and signatures of top federal officials, 1876 (OP-2874/7).
Unit 17: "Centennial Democratic Campaign Song, by Bab Notquilty," probably a Republican parody, 1876.
Unit 18: Advertisement of W. C. McMackin, cotton merchant, Raleigh, N.C., 1878.
Unit 19: Announcement of death of Benjamin McCulloch Hord of Tennessee, circa 1880 (OP-2874/8).
Unit 20: Announcement of candidacy of Edmund Hubard for commonwealth's attorney of Virginia, 1881.
Unit 21: "A Sketch of John S. Wise, Republican candidate for governor of Virginia," 1885.
Unit 22: Announcement of steamer excursion to Ocracoke, N.C., 1894 [copy].
Unit 23: "I Am a One Hundred Percent American," a song by William Woolcott, circa 1920.
Unit 24: "A Farmer's View of the Cotton Allotment Plan," 1934.
Unit 25: "National Savings," British war effort support poster, circa 1941 (OP-2874/9).
Unit 26: "Defense Needs Rubber," war effort support poster, circa 1942 (OP-2874/10).
Unit 27: "More Production," war effort support poster, circa 1942 (OP-2874/11).
Unit 28-30: "Making America Strong," war effort support posters, circa 1942 (OP-2874/12-14).
Unit 31A: "We Are Now In This War," war effort support poster, circa 1942 (OP-2874/15).
Unit 31B: Advertisement for a commission house, Kerr and Lyon, undated.
Unit 32A: Appeal for Human Rights by Atlanta University students, circa 1960. (OP-2874/16).
Unit 32B: Advertisement for "Music, Singing, Dancing, Mathematical Experiments, Etc.," Petersburg, Va., undated. (OP-2874/17).
Unit 33: Announcement to 13th District, Florida, Republicans, undated.
Unit 34: "Death to the Klan" poster from Anti-Klan March and Conference, 3 November 1979, Greensboro, N.C.

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