Collection context
Summary
- Abstract:
- This collection consists of broadsheets, ephemera, "fast literature," magazines, and newspapers chiefly from the Sadleir collection.
- Extent:
- 8 Boxes and 5 folios (oversize)
- Language:
- Materials are in English .
- Preferred citation:
[Item], London Lowlife: Broadsheets, Chapbooks, Ephemera, and Periodicals from the Late 1800s, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Background
- Biographical / Historical:
This collection consists of broadsheets, ephemera, "fast literature," magazines, and newspapers chiefly from the Sadleir collection. Serials include Ally Sloper's Comic Kalendar, Comic Almanack, Days' Doings, The Ferret, Fun (Lloyd's Weekly), Illustrated London Clipper, Illustrated Police News, New Comic Times, Police News Miscellany, Punch and Judy Penny Comic, and Sensation Magazine.
Monographs include The Fruits of Philosophy, National History and Views of London and Its Environs, The Poor Women of Paris, Social Purity, and Wicked London.
Subjects include the Boulton and Park trial, the Crawford Divorce, the Contagious Diseases Acts, Maria Monk, the Mordaunt Divorce, Mother Shipton's Prophecies, poems and music hall lyrics, and the Tichborne Claimant. Trial reports include the Balham murder, the Euston murder, the Penge murder, and the Whitechapel murder.
- Scope and Content:
This collection consists of broadsheets, ephemera, "fast literature," magazines, and newspapers chiefly from the Sadleir collection. Serials include Ally Sloper's Comic Kalendar, Comic Almanack, Days' Doings, The Ferret, Fun (Lloyd's Weekly), Illustrated London Clipper, Illustrated Police News, New Comic Times, Police News Miscellany, Punch and Judy Penny Comic, and Sensation Magazine.
Monographs include The Fruits of Philosophy, National History and Views of London and Its Environs, The Poor Women of Paris, Social Purity, and Wicked London.
Subjects include the Boulton and Park trial, the Crawford Divorce, the Contagious Diseases Acts, Maria Monk, the Mordaunt Divorce, Mother Shipton's Prophecies, poems and music hall lyrics, and the Tichborne Claimant. Trial reports include the Balham murder, the Euston murder, the Penge murder, and the Whitechapel murder.
- Arrangement:
Box 1: Miscellaneous items including Ally Sloper Comic Kalendars
Box 2: Miscellaneous items chiefly concerning The Contagious Diseases Acts
Box 3: Miscellaneous items including The Ferret
Box 4: Miscellaneous items including Life in the Strand
Box 5: Miscellaneous items including Mr. Bradlaugh's Letter to the Prince of Wales
Box 6: Miscellaneous items including Sensation Magazine
Box 7: Miscellaneous items including the Tichborne Claimant
Box 8: Miscellaneous items including The Unnatural History and Petticoat Mystery of Boulton and Clark
Oversize Folder 1: Miscellaneous broadsheets and The Days' Doings
Oversize Folder 2: Miscellaneous broadsheets and periodicals including The Illustrated London Clipper
Oversize Folder 3: Miscellaneous broadsheets and periodicals including The Police News Miscellany
Oversize Folder 4: Miscellaneous broadsheets and periodicals including The War Cry; and Official Gazette of the Salvation Army
Oversize Folder 5: Miscellaneous broadsheets and periodicals including The Gin-Shop
Indexed Terms
Access
- RESTRICTIONS:
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This collection is open for research.
Many collections are housed offsite; retrieval requires advance notice. Please make an appointment a minimum of one week in advance of your visit.
- PREFERRED CITATION:
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[Item], London Lowlife: Broadsheets, Chapbooks, Ephemera, and Periodicals from the Late 1800s, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
- CAMPUS:
- Indiana University Bloomington
- LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
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1200 East Seventh StreetBloomington, Indiana 47405-5500, USA
- CAMPUS:
- Indiana University Bloomington
- CONTACT:
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(812) 855-2452liblilly@indiana.edu