The John Johnson Collection: An Archive of Printed Ephemera now on trial

The Yale Library now has a trial  for about a month for this resource: The John Johnson
Collection:  An Archive of Printed Ephemera.

"This
collection provides access to thousands of items selected from the John Johnson
Collection of Printed Ephemera, offering unique insights into the changing
nature of everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries."

A longer description can be found at:

http://johnjohnson.chadwyck.com/info/about.do

Highlights include:

*This first release of the John
Johnson Collection provides access to facsimile images of more than
6,300 items, including more than 4,000 pieces of theatrical ephemera from the Nineteenth-Century Entertainment
category and more than 1,000 items from the Booktrade
category. Over 700 Popular Prints
are now available in facsimile form, along with more than 400 items from Advertising and over 100 from Crimes, Murders and Executions.

*
On completion the John Johnson Collection
will offer access to more than 65,000 documents (in excess of 150,000
high-resolution colour images) in the above five categories.

 
You
can  access via the campus network at:

URL:
http://johnjohnson.chadwyck.com/

 

Send comments to susanne.roberts@yale.edu