The table below provides direct links to websites where images of John Johnson Collection items are available. There is also information about ephemera from other Bodleian Library collections that are catalogued in the John Johnson online catalogue and sections that are currently being catalogued.
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Section | Cataloguing level | Image location where applicable |
Actors, Actresses and Entertainers | Full | |
Animals on Show | Full | 18th century DigitalBodleian 19th century ProQuest |
Artists’ Invitations | Minimal | |
Bazaars and Sales | Full | |
Beauty Parlour | Full | |
Bellmen’s Verses | Minimal | |
Bookplates: Johnson | Minimal | Some on ProQuest |
Boots and Shoes | Full | |
Broadsides: Murders and Executions | Full | |
Calendars | Minimal | |
Card Games | Minimal | |
Circuses | Full | |
Cocoa, Chocolate and Confectionery | Full | |
Colour Printing 6-9 (Edmund Evans) | Full | |
Crime | Full | |
Dentistry | Full | |
Dickens | Minimal | |
Dioramas | Full | 18th century Digital Bodleian, 19th century ProQuest |
Educational folder 4 (Writing Blanks) | Full | Digital Bodleian and JJ |
Elegies | Minimal | |
Entertainments folders | Full | |
Exhibition catalogues | Minimal | |
Fashion 19 (satirical prints) | Full | |
Fashion f 3 (prints) | Full | |
Fire Grates and Cooking Ranges | Full | |
Food | Full | |
French Wars & Revolutions folder 6 | Full | |
Fuel | Full | |
Games (artefacts) | Full | Digital Bodleian and JJ (some) |
Games (board) | Full | Digital Bodleian and JJ |
Gas and Gas Appliances | Full | |
Greetings Booklets | Minimal | |
Hats | Full | |
Hogarth Press (bookjackets only) | Minimal | |
Human Freaks | Full | 18th century Digital Bodleian, 19th century ProQuest |
Ireland folder 1 | Minimal | |
Iron Foundries and Machinery | Full | |
Ironmongery | Full | |
Jackets (Bookjackets) | Minimal | |
Johnson Albums 152 (Darton) | Full | |
Labels | Full | |
Lithography General folders | Full | |
London Play Places | Full | 18th century Digital Bodleian, 19th century ProQuest |
London Playbills [link to list] | Full (to R) | |
Lotteries | Full | |
Magic and Mystery | Full | 18th century Digital Bodleian, 19th century ProQuest |
Menus [link to list] | Full | |
Men’s Clothes | Full | |
Mezzotints folder | Full | |
Miniature Theatre | Full | |
Motor Cars | Minimal | |
Museums | Full | |
Music Titles | Full | |
Musicians and Opera Singers | Full | |
Nigger Minstrels | Full | |
Note Headings 6-19 | Full | |
Oil and Candles | Full | |
Oil Lamps and Stoves | Full | |
Oxford Trade | Full | |
Oxford Trade Pamphlets | Full | |
Paper Bags | Full | |
Patent Medicines | Full | |
Performances in Royal Residences | Full | |
Playbills on Silk | Full | |
Political Cartoons | Full + Minimal | |
Political General folder 1 | Minimal | |
Posters | Minimal | |
Printed Fabrics | Minimal | |
Printed on the Ice | Full | |
Prospectuses (19th c) | Full | ProQuest |
Prospectuses of Journals | Full | |
Provincial Booktrade | Full | |
Provincial Playbills | Full | 18th century Digital Bodleian, 19th century ProQuest |
Puzzle Pictures folder | Full | |
Puzzles, Conundrums, Games | Minimal | |
Queen Caroline folder | Full | |
Reform Bills folder 2 | Minimal | |
Scraps | Full | |
Sewing Cottons & Sewing Machines | Full | |
Silver, Jewellery, etc | Full | |
Soap | Full | |
Soft Drinks | Full | |
Street Ballads | Full (on Ballads site only) | |
Taxation folder 3 (cartoons) | Full | |
Tea and Coffee | Full | |
Tea and Grocery Papers | Full | |
The Scrap Album | Full | |
Tickets 6 | Full | 18th century Digital Bodleian, 19th century ProQuest |
Tickets 7 | Minimal | |
Tickets: Dances (18th c) | Minimal | Digital Bodleian and JJ |
Tickets: Show Places | Full | |
Tickets: Theatrical | Full | |
Tobacco Papers | Full | |
Trade Cards | Full | |
Trade Cards: Watch papers | Full | |
Trade in Cheap Lithographs folder | Full | |
Trade in Cheap Mezzotints folder | Full | |
Trade in Prints and Scraps | Full | |
Trade Sale catalogues vol | Minimal | |
Trades and Professions prints | Minimal | |
Tradesmen’s Lists | Full | JJ (most) |
Umbrellas and Trunks | Full | |
Waxworks | Full | 18th century Digital Bodleian, 19th century ProQuest |
Window Bills and Adverts folder | Full | |
Window Pictures and Transparencies | Full | |
Wines and Spirits | Full | |
Women’s Clothes and Millinery | Full |
Please note: Entertainment images are split between those for 18th century items which are available both on the Oxford Digital Library and through the Johnson online catalogue and those for 19th century Entertainment material which are on the ProQuest site.
Ephemera from other Bodleian ephemera collections included in the Johnson online catalogue
Section | Cataloguing level | Image location where applicable |
Bridgnorth Collection III C. | Full | |
Harding B44 (Writing Blanks) | Full | |
Harding B9 (Crime broadsides) | Full | |
Harding Bookplates
| Minimal | In progress |
The following sections are currently being catalogued:
Booktrade: London
Booktrade: Trade Cards
Circulating Libraries
Circulating Library labels
Harding Bookplates
Ballam Collection of Games
Cinema 1 (pre-Cinema)
John Fraser Collection of Propaganda Postcards