Brown's Lincoln Broadsides collection comprises an assortment of printed materials intended for broad public distribution in a variety of formats. Within this digital collection you will find, for example: handbills (a single sheet of text intended for wide public distribution), leaftlets (a handbill folded to create multiple leaves), small pamphlets (unbound booklets, typically stapled or sewn), souvenir cards, circulars, broadsheets, brochures. These materials encompass a relatively wide range of content and often incorporate graphic images as an adjunct to printed text. They range in date from the 1840s through the 1920s, and cover both events in which Lincoln was actually involved and those that revolved around the use of his public image.