Broadside from Manuscripts Archive at WSU

Broadsides have been used for many different things: poetry, announcements, politics, etc. I chose a broadside announcing an event and this broadside is integrating images. To Kyle Schlesinger, “these overlaps and intersections between text and image are often beautiful when examined in detail”.

This is an announcement of an Opera that will be taking place in New York. This could be classified as a sign or a broadside, either will work. The broadside integrates images and text in an overlapping and connecting style. The text and images are not the same (the text isn’t used to display an image like the word tree representing an image of a tree)  although there is not a way to display these words in an image form through text since the words are not identifying an object. The floral design runs throughout and broadside and even appears in some of the letters. The floral design separates the images but also connects them in a way to make them flow. Text is displayed in different forms through the entire broadside.  Sometimes the text is disconnected and separated from the images, while other images have text overlapping throughout the pictures or along a banner that is woven in with the floral designs bordering the photos.