broadsides Archives

Staff Pick: The School Room Against the Bar Room

The School Room Against the Bar Room Collection: James Yadkin Joyner Papers (Manuscript Collection #345)  Staff Person: Dale Sauter Today’s staff pick features a broadside (circa 1919) entitled “The School...

Chronology of Pitt County History

Source:  Chronology of Pitt County History, Joyner - NC Broadsides Staff Person:  Dale Sauter Description:  Today’s pick features "Chronology of Pitt County History,” a broadside by Jessamine Shumate.  Shumate was...

American Legion 40-Year Member Certificate

Source: Minnie B. Parker Scrapbook Manuscript Collection #89 Staff Person: Martha G. Elmore Description: Minnie Bell Parker lived most of her adult life in Norfolk, Virginia,  after being born October...

President Carter: FREE THE WILMINGTON 10

  Source: North Carolina Collection  NoCar F265.N4 P74 1977 Staff Person: Susan Holland Description: In October 1972, Ben Chavis along with nine other defendants were sentenced in the February 1971...

Broadside (circa 1883) offering farmland and timberland near New Berne, N.C.

Source: Edward B. Ellis, Jr. Papers #753.4 Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: Original broadside (circa 1883) offering a “Rare Chance for Capitalists!”  Offered for rent or lease by Mrs. Virginia...

Evangelical Baptist Mission Poster

Source: Willard and Daisy Rowe Papers, Manuscript Collection #1181 Staff Person: Maury York Description: Willard and Daisy Rowe of Franklin County, North Carolina, established the Evangelical Baptist Mission in 1960....

U. S. Army Provost Marshal’s Office Pass No. 11382 (1863)

Source: Shirley Kilpatrick Collection #10.1.d. Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description: U. S. Army Provost Marshal's Office Pass No. 11382 was issued in Union-occupied New Orleans on 4 February 1863.  It...

Broadside Advertising UNC-Chapel Hill Baseball Game

Source: J. Bryan Grimes Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #54 Staff Person: Maury York Description: This broadside from the J. Bryan Grimes Papers was designed to attract spectators to a...

The Fugitive Slave Act Passed by, the Senate and House of Representatives September 12, 1850 & Approved by, President Millard Fillmore September 18, 1850

Source: The Fugitive Slave Act, East Carolina Manuscript Collection MB0001 (Miscellaneous Broadsides) Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: In the 1840's the Underground Railroad was very busy due to the 1842...

Prohibition Propaganda Broadside, Circa 1908

Source: Getsinger Family Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #172 Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: February 20th, 2008, will mark the 75th anniversary of the proposal by Congress of the Twenty-first...