Restrictions to Access

This collection has items which have been noted as missing and are not accessible. The 1852 broadside "Announcement of auction of 25 slaves by Louis D. De Saussure, auctioneer, Charleston, S.C." and the undated advertisement for "Music, Singing, Dancing, Mathematical Experiments, Etc." were noted as missing from the collection in July 2004. 

Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law. For more information on the duration of copyright, see the U.S. Copyright Office.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Miscellaneous Broadsides #2874-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from various sources.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: Mark Beasley, April 1987

Encoded by: Roslyn Holdzkom, February 2007

Finding aid updated for digitization by Kathryn Michaelis, September 2010

Updated: February 2020

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Advertising--United States--History.
• Bill-posting.
• Bladensburg, Battle of, Bladensburg, Md., 1814.
• Broadsides--Southern States.
• Charleston (S.C.)--History.
• Elections--Virginia.
• Greensboro (N.C.)--History.
• Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
• Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Assassination.
• Music--United States.
• Political campaigns--Virginia.
• Political ballads and songs--United States.
• Political posters.
• Slavery--South Carolina.
• Trafficking in enslaved persons--South Carolina.
• Whig Party (U.S.)--Songs and music.
• Wise, John S. (John Sergeant), 1846-1913.
• World War, 1939-1945--War work.

This collection contains miscellaneous broadsides, including posters, advertisements for various merchants and for a steamer cruise to Hatteras, N.C.; notice of an 1852 slave auction in Charleston, S.C.; political campaign items, including election returns for Frederick County, Va., 1843, and a sketch of John S. Wise, Republican candidate for governor of Virginia, 1885; a way-bill giving mileage for travel points between Asheville, N.C., and Knoxville, Tenn.; funeral announcements, 1867; news of the assasination of Lincoln, 1864, and of the Battle of Bladensburg, 1814; 1934; sheet music for the song "One Hundred Percent American," circa 1927, and lyrics for the "National Whig Song," circa 1840, and the "Democratic Campaign Song," 1876; a "Farmer's View of the Cotton Allotment Plan," 1934; posters relating to United States homefront support during World War II; a poster from a 1979 anti-Ku Klux Klan march and conference in Greensboro, N.C.; and other material intended chiefly for public posting.

• Extra-oversize paper folder: XOPF-2874/1