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Broadsides/Posters Collection (Ephemera), 1765-1994

Collection Overview

Title: Broadsides/Posters Collection (Ephemera), 1765-1994

Extent: 4.0 Folders

Date Acquired: 10/02/2002

Languages: English [eng]

Scope and Contents of the Materials

The Broadsides and Posters Collections was created to provide access to related materials that were found in the collections. These materials range from sale bills to political treatises to advertisements.

Administrative Information

Acquisition Source: N/A

Box and Folder Listing

Folder 1Add to your cart.
Barcode: 31234013923444
Item 1: Potomac, 12 Mar 1829Add to your cart.
Famous running horse Potomac owned by John Clay will be standing stud in Bourbon County, KY.
Item 2: To the Whigs of the Ashland District, n.d.Add to your cart.
This is an extra to the Kentucky Statesman and features Henry Clay as well as the platforms of the Whig party.
Item 3: Visit Richmond, n.d.Add to your cart.
Poster showing attractions in and around Richmond, KY.
Item 4: The Music Man, n.d.Add to your cart.
A poster for a Rose Barn Theatre performance.
Item 5: Vote for Interim Committee Report, n.d.Add to your cart.
An endorsement of the sales tax.
Item 6: A Shopper, n.d.Add to your cart.
"Yours is the class that the merchants are decrying, pricing all the goods but never buying" (Dorris Museum Collection #1805)
Item 7: American Taxation, 1785 caAdd to your cart.
A broadside poem about the Stamp Act (Accession # 2002-004)
Item 8: Town Ordinances, 11 Feb 1868Add to your cart.
Ordinances issued by the Board of Trustees for the town of Richmond, KY.
Item 9: Lily May Ledford in Dance and Song, 1989Add to your cart.
Performing with Phoenix Moving Company, SpaceForce Dance Company, New Coon Creek Girls.
Item 10: Senator H.M. Brock and Judge H.C. Kennedy, Jul 1930Add to your cart.
Speaking in Clinton County for Judge William Lewis for the Republican Nomination for Congress.
Folder 2Add to your cart.
Barcode: 31234013923451
Item 1: World's Columbian Exposition, 1893Add to your cart.
Certificate for John Bennett, Commissioner from the State of Kentucky.
Item 2: Hon. William Goebel, Our Martyred Governor, 1900Add to your cart.
Poster commemorating the life of Goebel.
Item 3: Friends for Appalshop, 1988Add to your cart.
Poster advertising a fundraising event for Appalshop.
Folder 3Add to your cart.
Barcode: 31234013923469
Item 1: Governor's Race - What They Say of Wm. Goebel, n.d.Add to your cart.
Item 2: An Appeal for Law Enforcement, ca. 1950Add to your cart.
An appeal to enforce "Blue Laws" prohibiting businesses from operating on Sunday. (3 copies)
Item 3: Come at Last! New Eastern Goods!, 10 May 1846Add to your cart.
Advertising poster for M.D. Hall's Cheap Store in Richmond, KY. (Dorris Museum Collection, N.73)
Item 4: Kentucky is my LandAdd to your cart.
Poster advertising the paintings of Doug Adams based on Jesse Stuart poems.
Item 5: Madison County Stock, Agricultural and Mechanical Association, 1859Add to your cart.
Program for the first Madison County Fair.
Item 6: Kentucky Guild of Artists & Craftsmen, 1989Add to your cart.
Spring Fair at Indian Fort Theater
Item 7: Kentucky Guild of Artists & Craftsmen, 1994Add to your cart.
Fall Fair at Indian Fort Theater.
Folder 4Add to your cart.
Barcode: 31234013923477
Item 1: Appalachian Festival Poster, 1975Add to your cart.
Item 2: Appalachian Festival Poster, 1976Add to your cart.
Item 3: Appalachian Festival Poster, 1977Add to your cart.
Item 4: Appalachian Festival Poster, 1978Add to your cart.