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Broadsides still served a purpose for local advertisers, being cheap to design and print and appropriate to reach prospective consumers in limited geographic areas. But the larger, more colorful "posters" and "billboards" began to overshadow them for advertising purposes before 1900.
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library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/eaa/broadsides.html
library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/eaa/broadsides.html
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A tutorial on how to use broadsides as inspiration when practicing CSS usage for typographical elements. ... The purpose of typesetting broadsides with CSS is not an exact replication of the original typography but how close one can approximate that layout.
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www.elementary-group-standards.com/tutorials/css-tutori...
www.elementary-group-standards.com/tutorials/css-tutorials/css-typography-for-an-1855-broadside
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Broadsides then, meant to have large impact, yet getting some of that impact through bold and artful design, intended for public purpose. Broadsides today are often where printers, designers, and publishers play. An artful field on which to dance with word and image, color and form.
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chax.org/2008/09/olson-conference-broadsides-more.html
chax.org/2008/09/olson-conference-broadsides-more.html
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As the name would suggest, the collection comprises primarily documents created for a specific purpose and intended to be discarded. The primary purpose of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century printed ephemera was the distribution of information and opinion in the days before radio and television.
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www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/connections/tim...
www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/connections/time-capsule/history.html
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Like television commercials in our time, broadsides were usually produced for some passing commercial or political purpose. ... Due to the technological limitations of print shops in western America, broadsides remained a standard form of communication in the 1850s. Unlike their rapidly maturing offspring, posters,
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www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/lessonplans/sear...
www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/lessonplans/search.asp?id=65
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For many years, broadsides held a purpose similar to our present-day fliers, advertisements, public service announcements, or posters. They were originally designed by hand until the invention of the printing press, but the popularity of broadsides declined after newspapers became available to the mass public.
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www2.gvsu.edu/~stinsone/SRS/broadsides.htm
www2.gvsu.edu/~stinsone/SRS/broadsides.htm
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-BROADSIDES-; This page will explain the purpose of broadsides and will include PDF links to Student Reading Series broadsides from the past year. This page will also include information for students interested in creating broadsides for SRS.
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www2.gvsu.edu/~stinsone/projectvrationale/parta.htm
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Many of the people presented in elegies are largely untraceable, which reflects the purpose of broadsides - to convey up-to-date, topical news of interest to the community.
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www.nls.uk/broadsides/broadside.cfm/id/16020
www.nls.uk/broadsides/broadside.cfm/id/16020
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many printed ballads. As Mr. Simpson says in the intro- duction, his purpose is "to relate broadside ballads to the tunes for which they were designed. ...
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www.jstor.org/stable/3344064
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