Last Updated: May 23, 2008
Ephemera, Pamphlets, Individual Collection as an OAI Set
- An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera
- Description:
The Printed Ephemera Collection at the Library of Congress is a rich
repository of Americana. In total, the Collection comprises 28,000 primary
source items dating from the seventeenth century to the present and
encompasses key events and eras in American history. The online
presentation of digitized items from the Printed Ephemera Collection
includes more than 10,000 items
from the fifty American states, the District of Columbia, and London,
England. Among them is a variety of posters, notices, advertisements,
proclamations, leaflets, propaganda, manifestos, and business cards. They
capture the experience of the American Revolution, slavery, the western
land rush, the American Civil War, woman suffrage, and the Industrial
Revolution from the viewpoint of those who lived through those events.
setSpec: rbpebib
setName: LC Printed Ephemera Selections