Online images: American Time Capsule Collection of Broadsides and Printed Ephemera in American Memory (Library of Congress, USA)
Forwarded to HISTNEUR-L from H-SCI-MED-TECH. This is not the first time I have advocated Library of Congress' "American Memory" database of images and fully searchable text to HISTNEUR-L. Search this site using a term such as "brain" or "nerve", and you may be fascinated by what is retrieved. Russell Johnson --- Begin Forwarded Message --- Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 06:05:29 -0500 From: "Phillip Thurtle, H-SCI-MED-TECH" <smtedit@mail.h-net.msu.edu> Subject: FYI: American Time Capsule Collection of Broadsides and Printed Ephemera in American Memory Sender: "H-NET List on the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology" <H-SCI-MED-TECH@H-NET.MSU.EDU> From: H-NET Announcements Editor <announce@mail.h-net.msu.edu> Update to An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera Now Available on American Memory In September 1998 An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera was made available to users of the American Memory online collections. On November 30, more than seven thousand additional items from one of the world's greatest collections of Americana will be added to An American Time Capsule. The collection can be found at the following url: <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/rbpehtml/> . Taken from the Library of Congress's celebrated Printed Ephemera Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division, the materials include such highlights as: The first broadside account of Washington crossing the Delaware River in 1776. The Gerry-Mander, the 1812 caricature of the salamander-shaped congressional district created by Federalist polemicists to satirize the Massachusetts redistricting law spawned by zealous Republican colleagues of Gov. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts. A Western anti-slavery handbill, ca. 1850, urging Ohioans to "TURN OUT!" for an abolition meeting and "Learn Your Duty to Yourselves, the Slave and God." The final issue of the Vicksburg Daily Citizen, July 4, 1863, printed on wallpaper. An 1864 campaign souvenir "Lincoln Business Card," suggesting that in the spring of 1865 Lincoln would be at home in Illinois splitting rails and swapping horses rather than residing at the White House. A reward poster for John Wilkes Booth (1865). One of the earliest printed references to baseball (1859). The National Woman Suffrage Association=92s "Declaration and Protest of the Women of the United States," July 4, 1876, calling for the impeachment of the nation's rulers. A poster from the mayor of San Francisco printed following the earthquake and fire of 1906, warning that law enforcement officials "have been authorized to KILL any and all persons found engaged in Looting or in the Commission of Any Other Crime." Much of the material in this collection was produced as events unfolded, offering a unique snapshot of America's past that captures the concerns and conditions of everyday living. Many of the items, never intended to be kept for future generations, nonetheless provide important historical information. For example, an advertisement for paint from 1783 gives clues about the colors that adorned the homes of the nation's earliest citizens. An 1840 poster for a lost dog shows that owners felt as strongly about their pets 150 years ago as they do today. American Memory is a project of the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress. The Web site offers more than five million historically important items of American history, in collaboration with other institutions. More than ninety American Memory collections are now available on topics ranging from presidential papers and photographs from the Civil War to early films of Thomas Edison and panoramic maps, to documents from the women's suffrage and civil rights movements. The Library of Congress website can be found at <http://www.loc.gov> . Please direct any questions to ndlpcoll@loc.gov ********************************************************* This announcement has been posted by H-ANNOUNCE, a service of H-Net, Michigan State University. For an archive of announcements and information about how to post, visit: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/announce ********************************************************* --- End Forwarded Message ---