Subject: Popular culture

Four-page folded advertising card promoting the play "Sam'l of Posen; The Commercial Drummer" at Redmond's Opera House. The advertisement includes a description of the main character, a balance sheet detailing the character's various activities, and a poem entitled "Der Drummer" by Charles Francis Adams (or possibly Charles Follen Adams). The card is dated September 9th and 10th, 1884, and likely refers to Redmond's Opera House in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

This book, published by Philip J. Cozans at 116 Nassau Street in 1853-1855, contains Mother Goose rhymes, chimes, and jingles. The book includes anti-Semitic rhymes and illustrations, notably an “ugly cartoon of two Jews” on page 4 and a “nice Jew verse” accompanied by an illustration on pages 14-15.

Trade card depicting a girl reading a ghost story and advertising Dr. Jaynes Tonic. Circa 1885. Found in Ms. Coll. 1410, OOS, Box 2, Folder 59. Related to mercantile business.