The John Johnston Collection

An Archive of Printed Ephemera

How they lived then… Lost treasures of everyday life:

• Advertisements
• Theatre tickets
• Programmes
• Playbills
• Posters
• Pamphlets and more

This fascinating collection provides fully searchable access to thousands of facsimile images selected from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera. It offers a unique insight into the changing nature of everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Categories include:

• Nineteenth-Century Entertainment:nineteenth-century leisure activities, popular and high culture (especially the performing arts);
• The Booktrade: publishing material and bookplates;
• Popular Prints: a record of locations and landscapes, architecture, popular tastes;
• Crimes, Murders and Executions: the judicial system in action and its punishments;
• Advertising: pictorial record of the development of consumerism.

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Or find out more using the following resources:

• The John Johnson Collection showreel (a short video produced by JISC)
• The John Johnson Collection Demo which explains the different features of the site