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Advertising receipt acknowledging payment for inclusion of a printed version of President Jefferson Davis's December 23, 1862 proclamation ordering that "All commissioned officers in the command of said Benjamin F. Butler be declared not entitled to be considered as soldiers engaged in honourable warfare, but as common robbers and criminals deserving death." Partly printed receipt headed "Richmond Examiner," completed in manuscript and signed by Examiner manager R.F. Walker, Dec. 23, 1862, noting that the "State Department C.S.A." had paid $232.50, for a number of insertions of the "President's Proclamation in regard to Butler." With the receipt, a clipping comprising the proclamation of 28 paragraphs of dense text, signed in type at the end by Jefferson Davis, as President, and J.P. Benjamin as Secretary of State. The typeset proclamation details a series of crimes committed by Butler and his command against the people of Louisiana.

This collection contains a handwritten amateur newspaper containing 9 pages of text, by Emma Tucker and Jennie LeRoux of Boltonville, Vermont. Bound with a screw plus two red ribbons and penned on lined paper. An original photograph of the town is pasted to the first page, along with several newspaper clippings. Much of the paper consists of verses and blurbs relating to people at the girls' school. There is also an article on the meeting of the Vermont legislature, and an "advertisements" section at the end.

This collection consists of 26 handwritten amateur newspapers titled "Chestnuts,"by a group of ten girls calling themselves "WG's," the Woodfords Girls, who lived in the Woodfords neighborhood of Portland, Maine. It is likely they attended Deering High School, as the initials DHS appear several times.

This collection contains a twenty-page manuscript periodical produced by a Ladies Benevolent Society, at a Methodist Episcopal Church in Medford, Massachusetts. It contains numerous contributions, noted by their initials, of prose, poetry, humor, education, lost items, religious topics, riddles, marriages, and death. The editor is noted as a Mary Lizzie Alden.

This collection contains nine issues of an amateur newspaper created by two brothers, Harold and Arthur Rowley, ages fifteen and eleven, from Springfield, Massachusetts. They were the children of H.C. Rowley, head of the G & C Merriam Company, a well-known publishing and bookselling business.

The John L. Nau III Civil War History Collection (1806-1988, bulk 1861-1865; 133 cubic feet) contains Civil War-era correspondence, service records, pension records, artifacts, photographs, military records (including orders, requisitions, and correspondence), currency, newspapers, and other print materials.

This collection contains flyers, publications, and newspapers related to social justice in Norfolk collected by Scott Sechrist while a student at Old Dominion University in the early 1970s. The collection consists of four issues of the underground Newspaper, The Norfolk Gorilla, bumper stickers for radio station K-94 and the 1972 Presidential Campaign of George McGovern and Sargent Shriver, as well as other anti-Vietnam publications.

This collection consists of one, four-page, volume of a handwritten paper from Mobile, Alabama. The paper reports on a variety of events including a tanker explosion, a mayoral election, and bank robberies. Also included society pages, want ads, sports, and ads.

This collection contains three illustrated and handwritten manuscripts that are newspapers dated February 11, 1880, March 24, 1880 and April 8, 1889 by a child in Jacksonville, Florida. B. Blair (probably the child's parent) is identified as the editor.

This collection contains offensive and harmful language and imagery including racist and violent references and imagery. The purpose of this note is to give users the opportunity to decide whether they need or want to view these materials, or at least, to mentally or emotionally prepare themselves to view the materials.