Broadsides, leaflets, and pamphlets from America and Europe.
Contributors: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1527
Language: eng
Number of pages: 620
Description: Broadsides, broadsheets, leaflets, and pamphlets on a wide range of historical and political subjects, with the bulk of the material published in America.
Notes: The library of Peter Force, acquired by the Library of Congress in 1867, furnished the basis for the collection.
Acquired from various sources by gift, transfer, exchange, and purchase.
Materials cataloged through 1971 described in: LC broadsides. Supplementary card files for materials cataloged between 1972 and 1986 available in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division.
Chiefly in English. Includes material in French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Russian.
Item-level records will be found in the LC online database for materials in this collection cataloged after 1986.
In part, photocopies; in most cases the owner of the original is named.