About John Johnson Collection: An Archive of Printed Ephemera
Description: The John Johnson Collection provides access to 67,754 scanned items (a total of 174,196 images), including more than 20,700 pieces of theatrical and non-theatrical ephemera from the Nineteenth-Century Entertainment category and more than 11,700 items from the Booktrade category. Over 11,200 Popular Prints are available in facsimile form, along with more than 22,400 items from Advertising and over 1,500 from Crimes, Murders and Executions. The completed collection now comprises more than 60,100 catalogue records, including some records pertaining to items that have not been scanned due to copyright restrictions. Users wishing to restrict searches to items for which facsimile images are available should use the checkbox positioned above the Keyword(s) field on the Search: All screen and on the five category-specific search screens (Entertainment, Booktrade, Crimes, Murders and Executions, Popular Prints and Advertising) to exclude records without images from their results.

Concurrent Users: unlimited

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