100,000 reward! The murderer of our late beloved President, Abraham Lincoln, is still at large
http://www.loc.gov/item/96521960/
#albumenprints #herolddavide #johnharrison #assassination #surrattjohnh #boothjohnwilkes #awards #washingtondc #portraitphotographs #letterpressworks #broadsides #wantedposters #lincolnabraham
Updated my #books page. So if you want any of the #poetry collections, #chapbooks, or #broadsides I have extra copies of, you can purchase them from me here: https://affairsofink.com/books-of-ink/.
(If you want a meaningless author's signature, request it in the PayPal comments.)
Das Jahrbuch für #Kommunikationsgeschichte hat nun auch eine Beihefte-Reihe: hauptsächlich für Tagungsbände around the topic.
Wir freuen uns auf Band 1, hgg. von Pia Fuschlberger, Romana Kaske und Susanne Reichlin, der im Februar 2024 erscheint (#openaccess) und der sich frühneuzeitlichen Flugblättern als "Seismographen der Krise" widmet sowie #Vertrauen und #Misstrauen im #Medienverbund der Epoche #FrüheNeuzeit historisiert.
https://www.steiner-verlag.de/Seismographen-der-Krise/9783515135726
Enjoying this verse from the Scottish murder ballad 'Jellon Grame'
My eyes are seething in my head,
My flesh roasting also
My bowels are boiling with my blood
Is that no a woeful woe?
We just don't write or name ballads like we used to.
Spent a fair while trying to work out why a 19th century slip ballad would refer to a cannibal, and then realised they mean Hannibal and suddenly it all made (a bit more) sense.
"This demand that the criminal apologize in the course of the song—and hence legitimize the execution—reminds me of Foucault’s observation, in Discipline and Punish, that Western societies originally focused on punishing the criminal’s body, but eventually became more obsessed with the offender’s mind.”
#TedGioia #ExecutionBallads #MichelFoucault #DisciplineAndPunish #Music #Broadsides
https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/why-were-execution-ballads-so-popular
A trilingual edition (Danish/German/Latin) from 1672 used a completely new image for the page about bookseller's shops: https://digital.slub-dresden.de/werkansicht/dlf/65575/291
Now we see a crowded room (only men), tables with bound books, and various single-sheet items (#broadsides), a wall full of #backwardsbooks (waiting for a bookbinder), another wall full of boxes or stacked unfolded sheets, and in the middle: various prints, a map, and two globes. #maphistory
7/14
A folded #broadsheet. Broadsheets or #broadsides are only printed on one side and often featured an image and a text part. This one seems to have only text: about a Victory? These single-sheet items, as #bookhistory calls them, were steadily produced for special occasions, and sold well.
8/10
Self-described "Paper fetishsts" are my kind of people.
#ephemera #tradecards #broadsides #catalogs #handbills #sheetmusic #books #maps #postcards #programs #engravings #valentines #lithographs #photos #illustration
Posters of Library of Congress
Ink
Daniel Bellingradt 
Siobhán McElduff
Andrew Shields
Randall's Books
Miriam Jones