Readex Announces Completion of American Broadsides and Ephemera

[Joel S. Berson]

Dear Mr. Loiterstein,

What about ephemera before 1760 and broadsides before 1820?  I am
particularly interested in the 1730s.

Thanks,
Joel

At 6/5/2006 10:20 AM, you wrote:
>Readex Announces Completion of Digital American Broadsides and Ephemera,
>Series I
>
>Available Now, Newest Archive of Americana Collection Vividly Captures
>Daily Lives of 19th-Century Americans
>
>Readex, a leading publisher of online historical collections, announced
>that it has completed the digital edition of American Broadsides and
>Ephemera, Series I, 1760-1900. It offers full-color, fully searchable
>facsimile images of approximately 15,000 broadsides printed between 1820
>and 1900 and 15,000 pieces of ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900.
>Based on the landmark collections of broadsides and ephemera held by the
>American Antiquarian Society (AAS), this digital edition, published in
>cooperation with the AAS, is part of Readex's acclaimed Web-based
>Archive of Americana.
>
>Available now, American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I, 1760-1900
>enables students and scholars to explore hundreds of specific subjects
>in American history by easily searching and browsing high-resolution
>facsimiles of approximately 30,000 rare and often graphically stunning
>primary materials. Created in response to popular topics and issued
>locally, most broadsides and ephemera were not preserved. However, those
>that survive today offer an invaluable perspective on many aspects of
>American culture between 1760 and 1900. Major subjects covered include
>customs and manners, economics and trade, government, health, law and
>crime, military, peoples, philosophy, politics, religion, science and
>society.
>
>"As AAS librarian Samuel Foster Haven noted more than 100 years ago,"
>said Georgia B. Barnhill, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Graphic Arts at
>the American Antiquarian Society, "Broadsides and ephemera 'imply a vast
>deal more than they literally express, and disclose visions of interior
>conditions of society such as cannot be found in formal narratives.'"
>
>"Last fall, the launch of American Broadsides and Ephemera helped mark
>the anniversary of Readex's storied 50-year partnership with the AAS,"
>said Remmel Nunn, Readex Vice President of New Product Development. "The
>completion of this unique digital edition is proof positive of Readex's
>equally enduring commitment to providing authoritative primary source
>collections based on the best bibliographic controls and the nation's
>finest print holdings of American historical documents."
>
>Readex's digital edition of American Broadsides and Ephemera can be
>cross-searched with all other collections in the Web-based Archive of
>Americana, which features more than 1,000 newspapers, 100,000 books and
>seminal collections of government documents printed between 1639 and the
>late 20th century.
>
>For more information on the digital edition of American Broadsides and
>Ephemera, the Archive of Americana or other Readex products, visit
>www.readex.com.
>
>About the American Antiquarian Society
>Founded in 1812 as the country's first national historical organization,
>the American Antiquarian Society is both a learned society and a major
>independent research library. The AAS library today houses the largest
>and most accessible collection of books, pamphlets, broadsides,
>newspapers, periodicals, sheet music, and graphic arts material printed
>through 1876 in what is now the United States, as well as manuscripts
>and a substantial collection of secondary works, bibliographies, and
>other reference works related to all aspects of American history and
>culture before the twentieth century. The Society sponsors a broad range
>of programs-visiting research fellowships, research, education,
>publications, lectures, and concerts-for constituencies ranging from
>school children and their teachers through undergraduate and graduate
>students, postdoctoral scholars, creative and performing artists and
>writers, and the general public.
>
>About Readex
>For more than 50 years, the Readex name has been synonymous with
>research in historical printed materials and government documents.
>Recognized by librarians, students and scholars for its efforts to
>transform academic research, Readex offers a wealth of Web-based,
>primary source materials in the humanities and social sciences. Today,
>Readex, a division of NewsBank, inc., has established a leadership
>position among publishers by creating the digital Archive of Americana,
>a family of online collections that provides unprecedented access to the
>history, culture and daily life of the United States over more than
>three centuries.
>
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>David G. Loiterstein
>Marketing Manager
>Readex
>phone: 203.421.0152
>e-mail: dloiterstein at readex.com
>www.readex.com
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