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broadsides (notices)

 Subject
Subject Source: Genre Terms: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloguing
Scope Note: Sizeable single-sheet notices or advertisements printed on one or both sides, often chiefly textual rather than pictorial, and printed to be read unfolded.

Found in 348 Collections and/or Records:

Batty's Trained Animals, 1849

 Item — Box 02: Series MSS034.02 [Barcode: 35138007862565], Object: 135
Identifier: MSS034.02.135
Scope and Contents

The performance poster explains Batty's Unrivaled Collection of Trained Animals. Included on the notice is a list of all the animals getting featured including Hyaenas, Leopards, Panthers, A Bengal Tiger, Wolves, A Black and Brown Bear, a Coatimundis, A Sea Lion of the North Pole, an Ursine Sloth, a Lion and Lioness and various others. To be performed before Her Majesty and the Royal Family at Astley's Amphitheater.

Dates: 1849

Bazaars, 1849

 Item — Box 02: Series MSS034.02 [Barcode: 35138007862565], Object: 130
Identifier: MSS034.02.130
Scope and Contents

The broadside announces bazaars to the city of Lincoln in the Old Sheep Square. The bazaars were held in honor of the royal visit of Prince Albert.

Dates: 1849

Bible Association statement of accounts, 1849

 Item — Box 02: Series MSS034.02 [Barcode: 35138007862565], Object: 191
Identifier: MSS034.02.191
Scope and Contents

The statement of accounts relates to the Navenby, Boothby, Wellingore, and Coleby Bible Association.

Dates: 1849

Bible Society, 1844

 Item — Box 02: Series MSS034.02 [Barcode: 35138007862565], Object: 027
Identifier: MSS034.02.027
Scope and Contents

The Lincoln Auxillary Bible Society announces the 28th anniversary. Attendees of note are Thomas Sanger, Esq., and the Honorable A. L. Melville.

Dates: 1844

Bible Society, 1850

 Item — Box 02: Series MSS034.02 [Barcode: 35138007862565], Object: 256
Identifier: MSS034.02.256
Scope and Contents

The notice announces the 34th anniversary of the Lincoln Auxiliary Bible Society with the Rev. P. Kent.

Dates: 1850

Bosjesmans, 1849

 Item — Box 02: Series MSS034.02 [Barcode: 35138007862565], Object: 094
Identifier: MSS034.02.094
Scope and Contents

The Lincoln Theatre Royal advertisement announces the last appearance of the Bosjesmans or Bush people. The exhibition includes a lecture by Mr. F. Stanley on the mental, moral, and physical attributes of the Bosjesmans.

Dates: 1849

Breakers A-Head, 1846

 Item — Box 02: Series MSS034.02 [Barcode: 35138007862565], Object: 035
Identifier: MSS034.02.035
Scope and Contents

The open letter to all tenant farmers concerns the Anti-Corn-Law-League. The letter describes the effort to the repeal of the corn laws in Lincolnshire.

Dates: 1846

Broadside advertisement for the "Large English Atlas"

 Item — Box 01: Series MSS034.01 [Barcode: 35138007827576], Object: 17
Identifier: MSS034.01.17
Scope and Contents

A broadside advertisement titled the "Large English Atlas: a New Set of All the Counties of England and Wales," by Emanuel Bowen, geographer to His Majesty, Thomas Kitchen, and Others. The atlas is printed and sold by T. Bowles of London. The maps advertised are not included. The active periods of the named geographers are Emanual Bowen (1694-1767), and Thomas Kitchen (1718-1784).

Dates: 1579-1827

Brunetti's model of ancient Jerusalem, 1850

 Item — Box 02: Series MSS034.02 [Barcode: 35138007862565], Object: 286
Identifier: MSS034.02.286
Scope and Contents

The notice advertises an exhibition of Brunetti's model of ancient Jerusalem held at the Corn Exchange Rooms in Lincoln. The model occupies one hundred square feet and includes the Tyropean Valley and Mount Zion.

Dates: 1850

Calendar of Prisoners and Business, 1849

 Item — Box 02: Series MSS034.02 [Barcode: 35138007862565], Object: 122
Identifier: MSS034.02.122
Scope and Contents

The calendar of prisoners and business at the general quarter sessions of the peace, held at New Sleaford. The quarterly meeting includes a list of the prisoners' names and offenses as well as the name of the committing magistrate, also indicates literacy. An Appeal Against An Order of Removal for prisoners from the South and North Divisions appears on the reverse side. The letter includes an addressed envelope.

Dates: 1849