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Nuclear Metals images

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30th January

thinking of using the site shape as the form for the front and back of the sandwich board.  wonky, difficult, and awkward.



MA Historical Society Broadsides

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28th January

Some different styles of Broadsides showing an advertisement, information, and the Declaration of Independence. Each have a different format considering what type of information it is displaying.

MA Historical Society Collection of Broadsides

 



Library of Congress: Advertisement Broadsides

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28th January

Some examples of strictly advertisement based broadsides from the Library of Congress. The first one is asking for men to enlist in the army, the second and third are play bills.

To be noted for their formatting of the information.

Library of Congress Collection of Broadsides

 



Library of Congress: Foreign Broadsides

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28th January

Spanish:

 

 

German:

  

French:

Library of Congress Collection of Broadsides

 

 



Library of Congress: Balloon Ride Broadsides

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28th January

Library of Congress Collection of Broadsides



Duke: Informative Broadsides

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28th January

Duke Collection of Broadsides



Duke: Poem Broadsides

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28th January

Duke Collection of Broadsides

 



Duke: Advertisement Broadsides

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28th January

Duke Collection of Broadsides

 



Duke: Information Data Broadsides

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28th January

 

Notable aspects:
-table and column display of information
-no decorative aspects, only presenting facts

Duke Collection of Broadsides



Duke: Army Graft Broadsides

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28th January

Notable aspects:
-fonts
-use of image/decoration

Duke Collection of Broadsides



What is a Broadside?

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28th January

Broadside:
The historical type of broadsides were ephemera (temporary documents created for a specific purpose and intended to be thrown away.)
They were one of the most common forms of printed material between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly in Britain, Ireland and North America.

Alternate definition: side of a ship; the battery of cannon on one side of a warship; or their simultaneous (or near simultaneous) fire in naval warfare.

Broadsides usually were for:
-advertisements
-news information
-proclamations.
-text of ballads

Current uses of the word ‘Broadside’ :
– a comic called Broadside
– George Mason University official student weekly
– transformers character
– bookshop
– tvshow

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Massachusetts Historical Society
Library of Congress
Duke University
Brown University
American Antiquarian Society
Harvard Law