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  • Collection: Broadsides, Posters and Printed Ephemera

Argus and Patriot Extra, 1876

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Newspaper extra from November 11, 1876 reporting on the ballot counting process for the 1876 presidential election between Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel Tilden. This election was too close to call in several states after the…

Perpetual almanac and chronological problems explained

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Directions for determining year in Julian period and solar cycle. Printed on heavy paper with decorative border.

Grand concert!

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Text continues: Thetford Centre, Thursday evening, December 5, 1861, for the benefit of the soldiers. Text describes the program in two parts with a 10-minute intermission.

Poster includes an insignia featuring an American eagle with a stars and…

Help the "smoke" drive

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Text continues: "Saturday, Dec. 21, 1918, for our New England boys. Poster contains a quotation from General Clarence Ransom Edwards: "The two necessities of war--ammunition, then tobacco." Poster shows the head of a smiling soldier saluting with a…

"The child at your door"

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Text continues: "400,000 orphans starving, no state aid available--Campaign for $30,000,000." Poster shows a child wearing a scarf on her head.

The American Committee for Relief in the Near East (founded as the American Committee for Armenian and…

Which? Soldier or mechanic - enlist in the engineers and be both

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U.S. Army recruiting poster showing a man in civilian clothing and a soldier in uniform working as engineers.

The Red Cross sees a man through

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Text continues: "More than 26,000 men are still in hospitals as the result of the war. Your membership helps the Red Cross make their lives happier." Poster features three photographs of men receiving aid, including letter writing and the projection…

Keep 'em going! Every bad locomotive is a Prussian soldier.

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Poster shows German Emperor Wilhelm II being hunted by a US locomotive. Poster includes quote from Director General of Railroads, William Gibbs McAdoo, to the railroad shopmen at Altoona, Pennsylvania, on September 12, 1918: "Every bad locomotive is…

Sulfur springs and bathing house at Newbury, Orange County, Vermont : these springs are now open for ... visitors ... May 1843

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Description and location of springs printed within elaborate border.

We the undersigned, heirs at law of Samuel Averill, late of Kent, Connecticut deceased agree that Seth Cushman of Guildhall ... may administer ... the estate of the deceased ... in ... Vermont

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Printed form with manuscript additions.

The battle of Magog

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Berean Directory. For reading the bible through every two years, reckoning from January 1st, 1831. First line: Hark! all ye brave soldiers of Jesus Immanuel.

Irish songs and song writers

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At head of title: "Cead mille failthe." Notes on lectures and press notices.