Item Detail
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Bodleian Library
Proquest -
The John Johnson collection : an archive of printed ephemera [limited free access]
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The John Johnson Collection is the product of a unique partnership between the Bodleian Library and ProQuest to conserve, catalogue and digitise more than 65,000 items drawn from the Bodleian's John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera. The project, which has been funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) through its Digitisation Programme, broadens access to a wide array of rare or unique archival materials documenting various aspects of everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The material selected for conservation, cataloguing and digitisation comprises a wide array of different types of printed document, including posters and handbills for theatrical and non-theatrical entertainments, broadsides relating to murders and executions, book and journal prospectuses, popular topographical prints, and a wealth of different kinds of printed advertising material. The resulting online collection forms an invaluable resource for researchers interested in the histories of consumption, leisure, gender, popular culture, commerce, technology, crime, and a host of other areas. With each item presented as a full-colour, high-resolution facsimile, the John Johnson Collection is also indispensable for researchers studying the development of printing and visual culture in modern Britain.
The John Johnson Collection offers access to 67,754 documents (a total of 174,196 high-resolution colour images) and consists of five different categories of material. (from the website) -
Website
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c2008-2019
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English
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Concert Ephemera; Concert Programmes; Concert Programs
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Internet
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6449