Browse Items (454 total)

  • Collection: Broadsides, Posters and Printed Ephemera

Dutchers' lightning fly-killer. : We have been making this article for ... sixteen years. ... we have erected a building ... for ... purpose of manufacturing

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Advertising flyer w/engraving of factory signed "N.Orr & Co."

Commission, 3 June 1945

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Materials pertaining to commissioning of ship at Norfolk Navy Yard. Includes photo of engraving of ship, list of officers, historical sketch, tickets, invitations etc. Only two items are shown.

For the benefit of the creditors to the estate of Partridge Thatcher Esq. late of New Milford [Conn.] deceased : to be sold ... 40 rights of land ... on Onion River in ... Vermont

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Auction held in New Milford, Conn. at home of Samuel Canfield

League of Women Voters of Vermont Guide to Voting in Vermont, 1971

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Pamphlet entitled Voting in Vermont, published in 1971 by the League of Women Voters of Vermont. The front cover is illustrated with a drawing of three very different voters having entered a voting booth. The pamphlet details eligibility requirements…

To the superintendent of the town of Stockbridge, Vermont : Your attention is ... called to "the act relating to the Normal Schools of the state" approved Nov. 28, 1876 ... you are invited to appoint ... suitable person ... for scholarship ...

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Printed form letter. Ms additions. Includes extracts from State law and sample form of appointment.

Hemp - Cannibis - Sativa

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Article on cultivation of hemp and it's importance in manufacture of rope for U.S. Navy. Roswell Marsh, attorney in Rutland Co., wrote extensively for Montpelier Green Mt. Freeman and Rutland Herald.

Black Valley Railroad guide

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Temperance broadside in the form of a railroad handbill and timetable.

Black Valley Railroad : Grand Central route through dismal swamp. Low fares. Ample accommodations. Great speed

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Temperance broadside in the form of a railroad handbill and timetable. "Sold at 13 Cornhill, Boston." "Statement of the business of the Black Valley Rail Road."--p. [2]. Printed vertically within left margin on p. [2]: 100 of these tracts will be…

Norwich University alias T.B. Ransom's School

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Letter from a student at university attacking Truman B. Ransom, president of Norwich, appears on printed circular concerning Ransom.

The spirit of '18--The world cry, food--Keep the home garden going

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Even before the United States entered the World War I in 1917, American relief organizations were shipping food overseas. On the home front, it was hoped that Americans would adjust their eating habits in such a way as to conserve food that could…

If you must talk, tell it to the Marines

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Sketch of a mechanic talking to a marine who is holding a sheet of paper with "Manila, Pearl Harbor, Guam, Wake, Midway" written on it.

Help put him back in our fight

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Painting of a Russian soldier falling on Red Star with bomb exploding in the background. Issued by Russian War Relief, Inc.