Handbills

Abstract

An ephemera collection containing reports, speeches, and commemorative materials relating to the Easter Rising of 1916 in Ireland.

Scope and Contents The Jack Pfefer Wrestling Collection comprises more than 120 cubic feet of materials accumulated by Pfefer over a 45-year promotional and managerial career in professional wrestling, 1924-1969. Types of materials especially well represented include business and financial records; letters and telegrams; photographs; posters, handbills, and other publicity graphics; newspaper and magazine clippings; and wrestling programs and periodicals. Pfefer himself referred to these items, with...

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of political ephemera produced by Solidarity (Solidarnosc), a Polish labor union founded in 1980 at the Lenin Shipyard. It was the first trade union in a Warsaw Pact country that was not controlled by a communist party. Materials include broadsides, pamphlets, handbills, realia, periodicals, photographs, and posters.

Scope and Contents The Spanish Civil War Women’s Ephemera Collection comprises 8 folders of flyers and pamphlets from Republican women’s political organizations surrounding the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Materials encourage women to vote and get involved with political women’s groups, asking women to remember their roles as mothers, domestic laborers, and proletariat workers as reasons to be active. Topics mentioned are voluntary military service, political leaders and failures, voting rights, and song...