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Collection Number: 02874

Collection Title: Miscellaneous Broadsides, 1814-1979

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Size 35 items
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.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Miscellaneous Broadsides #2874-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from various sources.
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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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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Contents list

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About 35 items.
Folder 1

Unit 1: Report of Battle of Bladensburg and other war news, 1814. #02874, Series: "Broadsides, 1814-1979 and undated." Folder 1

Unit 2: Announcement of peace, 1815 (OP-2874/1). #02874, Series: "Broadsides, 1814-1979 and undated." Folder 1

Unit 3: "National Whig Song," circa 1840. #02874, Series: "Broadsides, 1814-1979 and undated." Folder 1

Unit 4: Announcement of election returns for Frederick County, Va., 1843. #02874, Series: "Broadsides, 1814-1979 and undated." Folder 1

Unit 5: "Way-Bill of the Nearest and Best Road from Knoxville, Tenn. to Asheville, N.C.," circa 1850. #02874, Series: "Broadsides, 1814-1979 and undated." Folder 1

Unit 6: Announcement of auction of 25 slaves by Louis D. De Saussure, auctioneer, Charleston, S.C., 1852.(OP-2874/2). #02874, Series: "Broadsides, 1814-1979 and undated." Folder 1

Unit 7: Announcement of expenditures of the city council of Augusta, Va., 1859 (OP-2874/3). #02874, Series: "Broadsides, 1814-1979 and undated." Folder 1

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). #02874, Series: "Broadsides, 1814-1979 and undated." Folder 1

Digital version: Full text version of call for enlistment

Documenting the American South

Unit 9: Announcement of assassination of Abraham Lincoln, 1865. #02874, Series: "Broadsides, 1814-1979 and undated." Folder 1

Unit 10: Announcement of courses, regulations, and other information about Randolph-Macon College, Boydton, Va., 1866 [copy]. #02874, Series: "Broadsides, 1814-1979 and undated." Folder 1

Unit 11: Announcement of death of Ermentine Poole of New Orleans, La., 1867. #02874, Series: "Broadsides, 1814-1979 and undated." Folder 1

Unit 12: Announcement to the voters of Augusta, Va., concerning the Valley Railroad, 1870 (OP-2874/5). #02874, Series: "Broadsides, 1814-1979 and undated." Folder 1

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. #02874, Series: "Broadsides, 1814-1979 and undated." Folder 1

Unit 14: Announcement of death of Alexander Giquel White, son of Edmund and Clementine White, 1870. #02874, Series: "Broadsides, 1814-1979 and undated." Folder 1

Unit 15: "Harp of the Holidays," a holiday poem, Shenandoah, Va., 1872 (OP-2874/6). #02874, Series: "Broadsides, 1814-1979 and undated." Folder 1

Unit 16: Names and signatures of top federal officials, 1876 (OP-2874/7). #02874, Series: "Broadsides, 1814-1979 and undated." Folder 1

Unit 17: "Centennial Democratic Campaign Song, by Bab Notquilty," probably a Republican parody, 1876. #02874, Series: "Broadsides, 1814-1979 and undated." Folder 1

Unit 18: Advertisement of W. C. McMackin, cotton merchant, Raleigh, N.C., 1878. #02874, Series: "Broadsides, 1814-1979 and undated." Folder 1

Unit 19: Announcement of death of Benjamin McCulloch Hord of Tennessee, circa 1880 (OP-2874/8). #02874, Series: "Broadsides, 1814-1979 and undated." Folder 1

Unit 20: Announcement of candidacy of Edmund Hubard for commonwealth's attorney of Virginia, 1881. #02874, Series: "Broadsides, 1814-1979 and undated." Folder 1

Unit 21: "A Sketch of John S. Wise, Republican candidate for governor of Virginia," 1885. #02874, Series: "Broadsides, 1814-1979 and undated." Folder 1

Unit 22: Announcement of steamer excursion to Ocracoke, N.C., 1894 [copy]. #02874, Series: "Broadsides, 1814-1979 and undated." Folder 1

Unit 23: "I Am a One Hundred Percent American," a song by William Woolcott, circa 1920. #02874, Series: "Broadsides, 1814-1979 and undated." Folder 1

Unit 24: "A Farmer's View of the Cotton Allotment Plan," 1934. #02874, Series: "Broadsides, 1814-1979 and undated." Folder 1

Unit 25: "National Savings," British war effort support poster, circa 1941 (OP-2874/9). #02874, Series: "Broadsides, 1814-1979 and undated." Folder 1

Unit 26: "Defense Needs Rubber," war effort support poster, circa 1942 (OP-2874/10). #02874, Series: "Broadsides, 1814-1979 and undated." Folder 1

Unit 27: "More Production," war effort support poster, circa 1942 (OP-2874/11). #02874, Series: "Broadsides, 1814-1979 and undated." Folder 1

Unit 28-30: "Making America Strong," war effort support posters, circa 1942 (OP-2874/12-14). #02874, Series: "Broadsides, 1814-1979 and undated." Folder 1

Unit 31A: "We Are Now In This War," war effort support poster, circa 1942 (OP-2874/15). #02874, Series: "Broadsides, 1814-1979 and undated." Folder 1

Unit 31B: Advertisement for a commission house, Kerr and Lyon, undated. #02874, Series: "Broadsides, 1814-1979 and undated." Folder 1

Unit 32A: Appeal for Human Rights by Atlanta University students, circa 1960. (OP-2874/16). #02874, Series: "Broadsides, 1814-1979 and undated." Folder 1

Unit 32B: Advertisement for "Music, Singing, Dancing, Mathematical Experiments, Etc.," Petersburg, Va., undated. (OP-2874/17). #02874, Series: "Broadsides, 1814-1979 and undated." Folder 1

Unit 33: Announcement to 13th District, Florida, Republicans, undated. #02874, Series: "Broadsides, 1814-1979 and undated." Folder 1

Unit 34: "Death to the Klan" poster from Anti-Klan March and Conference, 3 November 1979, Greensboro, N.C. #02874, Series: "Broadsides, 1814-1979 and undated." Folder 1

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Processing Information

Processed by: Mark Beasley, April 1987

Encoded by: Roslyn Holdzkom, February 2007

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