showbills
Promotional performance placards
Showbills are posters or placards advertising a theatrical performance, circus, or other public entertainment.
The term is old-fashioned, largely replaced by poster or placard in contemporary usage: The showbills promised acrobats and trained elephants.
Media-driven awareness
- promotionRank increase or publicity
- announcementPublic declaration of information
- flyerPrinted advertisement sheet
- broadsheetLarge-format serious newspaper
lithograph · typography · display · printing · posting · kiosk · hoarding · paste-up
Theater performance listing
- marqueeTheater entrance canopy
- posterDisplayed printed notice
- handbillPrinted sheet for distribution
- broadsideFierce written assault
program · announcement · premiere · production · vaudeville · burlesque · melodrama · revue
Disposables preserved as collectibles
- collectibleObject worth amassing
- antiqueOld valued collectible
- memorabiliaCollected items of significance
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
Victorian · Edwardian · lithography · chromolithograph · woodcut · engraving · period · historical
publicity
Media-driven awareness
- promotionRank increase or publicity
- announcementPublic declaration of information
- flyerPrinted advertisement sheet
broadsheet · lithograph · typography · display · printing · posting · kiosk · hoarding · paste-up · banner
playbill
Theater performance listing
broadside · program · announcement · premiere · production · vaudeville · burlesque · melodrama · revue · headliner
ephemera
Disposables preserved as collectibles
- collectibleObject worth amassing
- antiqueOld valued collectible
- memorabiliaCollected items of significance
nostalgia · Victorian · Edwardian · lithography · chromolithograph · woodcut · engraving · period · historical · archive
showbillsprivate letters
Confidential written communications