'Single Sheet' thematic collections

'Single Sheet' thematic collections

The datasets in this collection contain a number of thematic digitised collections of single sheet items or ephemera between 1628 - 1902. It includes information about portraits of actors, views of theatres, Christmas ballads and broadsides, Signs of taverns, newspaper cuttings, performances of Sir Henry Irving, pamphlets about the British Museum and portraits and biographies of officers in the South African wars.

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    Volumes of Lysons Collectanea (Amusements), comprising broadsides, cuttings, advertisements on amusements 1660-1840
    (2015)
    British Library
    The dataset comprises nine digitised volumes of a collection of broadsides, cuttings and advertisements, relating to public exhibitions and places of amusement from 1660 - 1840 (with OCR-derived text.) Part of the Lysons Collectanea collection.
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    Volume of Christmas ballads and broadsides. 1750 - 1840
    (2015)
    British Library
    110 page PDF of miscellaneous Christmas ballads and prose broadsides (with OCR-derived text.) The dataset comprises one digitised volume (110 pages) of a collection of Christmas ballads and prose broadsides chiefly printed in London by J. Pitts between 1750 - 1840. The dataset is in Portable Document Format (PDF).
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