Documented events include, but are not limited to: cattle and agricultural shows lectures poetry readings dances and parties musical and dramatic performances memorial services auctions and estate sales and parades. SCOPE AND CONTENT: An artificial, open collection of items dating from between and, acquired from a variety of sources, consisting of broadsides, posters, and a small amount of other ephemera relating primarily to life and events in Concord, Mass. Broadsides and posters are found in widely varying dimensions. Posters-produced by a variety of reproduction techniques-tend to focus at least as much on illustration as on text, and in consequence are often more deliberately designed and more colorful than letterpress broadsides. Poets and artists have collaborated to produce limited fine press broadside editions of their work. (The term broadsheet is sometimes used for single sheets printed on both sides.) At the time of issue, broadsides served/serve to publish official proclamations, announce public meetings, commemorative events or current news, advertise products and services, or register protest.
Letterpress broadsides consist of single sheets of paper (white or colored) printed on one side only, intended for public posting. HISTORY: Broadsides and posters, which fall under the category of ephemera, document social history relating to the places, organizations, and individuals responsible for generating them. (For the most part, the filing date for chronologically arranged items is the date of the publicized event occasionally, an alternative date has been used instead.) Oversize items (identified in the item list) are housed separately. Undated items filed alphabetically in a separate sequence following those arranged chronologically. ORGANIZATION AND ARRANGEMENT: Organized in a single file, arranged chronologically.
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