Billboard with anti-Thompson broadsides

Title:: Billboard with anti-Thompson broadsides
Description:: Black and white photo showing billboard or fence on which posters and broadsides have been placed. Focal point are 2 political broadsides both reading: "EDITORIAL FROM THE/ EVENING STANDARD OF/ NOV. 7, 1907,/ SPEAKING OF/ THOMAS THOMPSON/ AS A MAYOR/ HE HAD HIS/ CHANCE AND DID/ NOT USE IT/ AS HE OUGHT"; small labels with name of P.J. Connelly, Chairman, Press Committee, pasted over broadsides. Poster to right advertises Gold Dust powder using stereotyped caricatures of African Americans. Debris at bottom of image. Mounted to dark gray cardboard; inscribed on back: "Poster of Bullock party in/ Municipal Campaign 1907./ This one on County Street/ near Mill Street."
Date:: 1907
Format:: Photographs
Genre:: Photographic prints
Location:: New Bedford Free Public Library
Main Library, room 309, cabinet U07, shelf SH10, container BX14:F055 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):: Photograph Collection
Subjects:: Political elections
Politics & government
Mayors, New Bedford
County Street
Mill Street
Thompson, Thomas
Bullock, William J.
Places:: Massachusetts > Bristol (county) > New Bedford
Extent:: 1 photograph : print
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/sb398x42h
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