for news information is the first published account of George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River, printed on December 30, 1776 by an unknown printer. In nineteenth-century Pennsylvania, broadsides were used by the Pennsylvania Dutch to advertise the "vendu," or county sale, for religious instruction, and to publish Trauerlieder or "sorrow songs" for sale. Today, broadside printing is done by many smaller printers and publishers as a fine art variant, with poems often being available as broadsides, intended to be framed and hung on the wall. Broadsides pasted on walls are still used as a form of mass communication in Haredi Jewish communities, where they are known by the Yiddish term "pashkevil" (pasquil). Originally, a pasquil was used to ridicule public authority figures, to publicly criticize the powers that be, and to impart to the public information being withheld. See also Broadsheet Street Literature Poster Dunlap broadside Broadside ballad Phoenix Broadsheets References Further reading A Book of Broadsheets; with an introduction by Geoffrey Dawson. London: Methuen, 1928 ("a reproduction ... of the pocket literature provided by The Times for the men in the trenches during the early days of the War ... every item in it was printed in the autumn of the year 1915 in the form of a broadsheet ..."—p. xi) External links English Broadside Ballad Archive at the University of California, Santa Barbara Modern American Poetry Collection at Ball State University Archives and Special Collections Research Center Broadsided Contemporary, original broadsides published monthly online and posted around the US and abroad Poetry Center of Chicago Broadsides – fine letter press broadsides Green Linden Press Poetry Broadsides Historical broadsides Library of Congress – Three Centuries of Broadsides and other Printed Ephemera University of Georgia – Historical broadsides from 1849–1989 Wake Forest University – Confederate Broadside Poetry Collection The Word on the Street. 1,800 Scottish broadsides from 1650–1910 at National Library of Scotland. NLS Broadsides dataset. Broadsides at the Boston Athenaeum Pennsylvania German Broadsides: Windows into an American Culture, Library Company of Philadelphia Crime broadsides Historical & Special Collections, Harvard Law School Library; a digitized collection of 500 crime and execution broadsides, from 1707 to 1891. Paper products Publications by format Chapbooks Promotion and marketing communications