At present, this Broadsides Collection database contains information and images for approximately 1,400 broadsides, broadsheets, circulars (of 1 to 4 pages) and printed forms.
Its strength is 19th century American materials, drawn from such manuscript collections in the Department as the
William Henry Seward Papers, the
Thurlow Weed Papers, and the
Amy and Isaac Post Family Papers. This database grows as more material is added to it.
The following information has been entered for each item. Any word in these fields can be
searched:
- Title/First line(s)
- Date
- City
- State
- Collection
- One or more broad subject headings
Although the items in this database have been digitized, their printed text is not yet searchable.
The database does not contain the
Poetry Broadside Collection, which has its own database; nor does it contain similar University of Rochester materials. These materials, 1851 to date, are filed year-by-year in the Department and the University Archivist would be glad to help you with any questions regarding them.
| Elections | Tourism |
| Ward, Henry A. (Henry Augustus), 1834-1906 | Yorkshire (England) |
| .The Index. | Abolition |
| Abraham Lincoln | Academy of Art |
| Adams, John | Advertising |
| Advertising--1880-1890 | Advertising--Food |
| African Americans | Agriculture |
| American Anti-Slavery Society | American Institute |
| American Revolution | American Union Commission |
| Animals | Annexation of Canada |
| Antes Lyceum | Anthony, Susan B. |
| Anti-Rent | Anti-Tobacco Trust Depository |
| Arthur, Chester A. | Arts |
| Assassination | Assassination Attempt |
| Associations | Attucks, Crispus |
| Banking | Banks |
| Baptist Social Union (Rochester, NY) | Barnum, P.T. |
| Benton, Thomas H. | Billings, Josh |
| Books | Booth, John Wilkes |
| Boston (Mass.) | Boston Athenaeum |
| Bradish, Luther, 1783-1863 | Brazil |
| Bridges | Brockport (N.Y.) |
| Buchanan, James | Buildings |
| Business | Business Transactions |
| California | Canals |
| Canals - Erie | Canals - Slip |
| Canals - Sodus | Capital Punishment |
| Capture of Ticonderoga | Carpet Hooks |
| Carrier Address | Catalogs |
| Cayuga Academy | Celebrations |
| Central Publishing House | Channing, Wm. E |
| Charities and Reliefs | Church, Sanford E. |
| City Ordinances | Civil Disobedience |
| Civil Service Reform Association | Civil War |
| Civil War - North | Clay, Henry |
| Clinton, DeWitt | Clothing |
| Clubs | Clubs and Fraternities |
| Colorado | Columbia Institution (Gallaudet) |
| Commencement Exercises | Commerce |
| Commercial Cards | Conventions |
| Cooke, Capt. James | Cooking |
| Corinthian Hall | Cornell, Ezra |
| Cotton | Crimean War |
| Cuba | Currency |
| Customs | Dairying |
| Dakota Territory | Day of Fasting and Prayer |
| Daylight Saving Time | Deaf Institutions |
| Death Notices | Debates |
| Declaration of Independence (Facsimilie) | Declaration of Paris |
| Dentistry | Dickens, Charles |
| Douglass, Frederick | Drama |
| Dry Goods | East Avenue Collegiate Institute |
| Education | Ellwanger and Barry |
| Encyclopedias | Engineering |
| England | Excursions |
| Expense Accounts | Fairs and Exhibitions |
| Farragut, Adm. David G | Feminism |
| Fillmore, Millard | Fisheries |
| Floods | Flowers and Plants |
| France | Freemasonry |
| Friends of Human Progress | Friends of Spiritual Progress |
| Gardner, George | Garfield, James A. |
| Genesee College | Genesee Valley Club |
| Geography | Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935 |
| Government | Grant, U.S. |
| Great Britain | Greeley, Horace |
| Groceries | Haiti |
| Hardware | Harrison, William Henry |
| Health Care | History |
| History of Western New York | Homeless |
| Homes, Oliver Wendell | Horse Racing |
| Hotels | Human Magnetism |
| Human Rights | Hungary |
| Immigration | Imprisonment for Debt |
| Indentured servants | Independent Worker |
| Indians of North America | Industrial School of Rochester |
| Industry | Insurance |
| International Policy | Inventions |
| Invitations | Invoices |
| Iowa | Ireland |
| James, Henry | Jewelers |
| Johnson, Andrew | Johnson, Andrew (President) |
| Johnson, William Cost, 1806-1860 | Kansas |
| Kodak | La Fayette, Gen. |
| Land - Property | Land - Property |
| Land Grants and Warrants | Language |
| Law | Lectures |
| Legacies | Legations |
| Lesbian Society | Liberia |
| Liberty Bell | Liberty Party |
| Lincoln, Abraham | Lines, M.A. |
| Literary Programs | Lodge |
| Lodgers | Lotteries |
| Lumber | Manufacturing |
| Manufacturing industries--New York (State) | Map of 4th Ward Election District |
| Mappa, John | Maps and Globes |
| Mariner's Journal | Markham, Edwin |
| Marriage | McNaughton, Donald |
| Medicine | Mediums |
| Meeke, W.H. | Memory |
| Menu | Menus |
| Merchandising | Mexico |
| Michigan | Military |
| Mill Race | Millinery |
| Mining | Missing Persons - Reward |
| Mississippi River | Monroe Doctrine |
| Monuments | Mount Vernon |
| Mt. Hope Cemetery | Museums |
| Music and Dance | Music and Drama |
| N.Y. State Legislature | National Debt |
| National Liberal League | Native Americans |
| Nebraska | New England Emigrant Aid Co. |
| New Jersey | New York |
| New York (State) | New York (State). Legislature. Assembly |
| New York (State). Legislature. Senate | New York City (N.Y.) |
| New York Legislature | Newspapers and Magazines |
| Niagara Falls | Nurseries |
| Observatories | Oil |
| Oneida Indians--History | Opera House |
| Paine Drug Company | Passports |
| Patch, Sam | Patents |
| Payne, Howard | Peace Organizations |
| Pennsylvania | Pensions |
| Petition for Justice | Photography |
| Pianos and Organs | Pilgrims |
| Poetry
African Americans | Poetry |
| Police and Firearms | Police and Firemen |
| Politics | Post Office |
| Postcard | Potomac River |
| Present Age | Printing |
| Progressive Friends | Prohibition |
| Prospectus | Public Debt |
| Public Speaking | Publications |
| Queen Victoria | Radio |
| Railroads | Real Estate |
| Reconstruction (Civil War) | Religion |
| Republican Circular | Resorts |
| Reunion: Royal Templar's Reunion | Reunions (.Old School Boys.) |
| Revolutionary War | Rochester (N.Y.) |
| Rochester Agricultural Works | Rochester Chamber of Commerce |
| Rochester Ladies Anti-Slavery Society | Rochester Real Estate Exchange
(of Real Estate) |
| Rochester, Nathaniel Thrift | Satire |
| School Programs | Schools |
| Science | Secession |
| Secret Societies | Secretary of State N.Y. |
| Seward, William Henry | Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872 |
| Sewing Machines | Sherman, Gen. William. T. |
| Shipping | Sidewalks |
| Sign language | Slavery |
| Smith, Gerrit | Smithsonian Institution |
| Snow Removal | Soap |
| Societies | Society of Friends |
| Society of the Friends of Progress | Sodus Bay |
| Soldier's Home Fair | Solicitations |
| Spiritualism | Sporting Events |
| Stage Lines | Stanford, Leland |
| Stanton, Elizabeth Cady | Statehood |
| Stocks and Bonds | Suffrage |
| Tableau Exhibitor | Tammany Society |
| Tariffs | Taxes |
| Taxes and Assessments | Taylor, Zachary |
| Telegraph | Temperance |
| Texas | Thanksgiving Day |
| The Nation | Trade |
| Trees | Turkish Baths |
| Tuscaloosa | U. S. Treasury |
| U.S. Capitol | U.S. Congress |
| U.S. Internal Revenue | U.S. Legislation |
| U.S. Legislature | U.S. Naval Academy |
| U.S. Treasury | Union |
| Unions | University of Rochester |
| Universology | Utilities |
| Valentines | Van Buren, Martin |
| Veterans | Virginia |
| Volunteer Army | Voting |
| W.H. Comstock Co.--History | Wadsworth, W. A. |
| War of 1812 | Weddings |
| Weed, Thurlow | Western Union Telegraph Co. |
| Whig Party | Whigs |
| White Sulphur Springs (W. Va.) | Wild Schemes |
| Wilkie, Wendell W. | Williams and Orvis |
| Wines and Spirits | Woman's Christian Association |
| Woman's Suffrage | Woman's Suffrage - Anti |
| Woman's Suffrage - Pro | Women--Suffrage--United States--History--20th century |
| YMCA |
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