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| Lottery puffs. [Collection of English lottery handbills, ca. 1807-25]. Case Wing ZC 3 .524 |
At every period, printers made their bread and butter with occasional or ephemeral printing, what we now dismissively call "junk mail." Inevitably, the more temporary the use a printed object had, the less likely it was to survive and the greater its rarity today. Posters, often prized for their art, represent the upper end of the ephemera spectrum. Collectors have always enjoyed amassing smaller paper objects too, and today colorful advertising pieces have a particular vogue.
Ephemeral imprints have research value too, and this display includes examples from 1519 to 1959 that evidence social and political events, parties and entertainments, luxury and penny-ante markets, and the mania to collect paper. Needless to say, an individual item has less research value than a collection of items related by theme, maker, style, or format. Here we can show only a few isolated examples of what the Newberry holds.
On Renaissance Walls
Announcement of a horse race. Tübingen, 1511.
Wing f ZP 547 .A6175
Price regulations. Rome, 1529.
Wing fZP 5351.29
Tournament poster. Augsburg, 1567.
Case Wing ZX 547 .S688
Religious festival poster. Rome, 1687.
Case Wing +ZC 93 .186 no. 1
Wars of Religion
Martin Luther, Against Henry VIII, in a collection of 24 controversial pamphlets. Wittenberg, 1522.
Vault Case 4A 902
Newsletter map of the siege of Pavia, Italy. Basel?, 1525.
Vault Case Wing oversize G6714.P45 1525 .S8
Papal condemnation of Blaise Pascal. Rome and Modena, 1670.
Case oversize oZ1020 .I657 1657
John Richardson, A Proposal for the Conversion of the Popish Natives of Ireland. Dublin, 1711.
Case 4A 264
Politics and the Press
The Exorbitant Grants of William the III. London, 1703.
Case 4A 262
Two French Revolutionary newspapers. Paris, 21 July 1797.
Case FRC 5.242 and 5.435
English caricatures of French revolutionary manners. London, 1797.
Case +W 778 .186 no. 9197 and no. 9199
Hymn in praise of Kaiser Franz I of Austria. Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1829.
Bonaparte Ephemera, no. 178
Political-satire ballad sheets. Barcelona, about 1850.
Case Wing +ZC 9 .186 folder 1
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Watch papers. Essex, England, 1807.
Case Wing oNE965.3 E53 W37 1807
Lottery puffs. England, 1800-1825.
Case Wing ZC 3.524
Posters for auction sales. England, 1840s,
Case Wing ZC 3 .175
Tradecards and handbills. Brussels, 1840s.
Case Wing +ZC 3 .024
Windsor Hotel menu. U.S.A, 1856-1891.
Case Wing ZC 7 .186
Business school advertising card. Chautauqua, NY, about 1910.
Z 201 .149
Theater program and direct mail advertising piece. Paris, ca. 1930.
Case Wing +ZA 3 .185
City of Big Shoulders
The Palmer House Illustrated. Chicago, 1876.
folio oF 548.625 .P35P35
Railroad guide with map and timetables. Chicago, 1881.
H 668 .1614
Trade cards. Chicago, 1880-1910.
Case Wing ZC 3 .166
Souvenir program, World's Columbian Exposition. Chicago, 1893.
R 1832 .1605
Restaurant advertisement. Chicago, 1923.
Wing ephemera file: Hinrichsen
Playgoh magazine. Chicago, April 1931.
V18896 .165
Party invitation. Chicago, 1939.
Wing Ephemera file: Chicago Guild of Free Lance Artists
Souvenir program for an African-American dance troupe. Chicago, 1947.
Wing fZP 983 .M135
Civil defense pamphlet. Chicago, 1951.
Wing ephemera files: Chicago Civil Defense