Album of religious and exhortatory ephemera.

Collection of 130 items on blue paper album pages, assembled by Thomas Richardson, "financier and benefactor of Quaker institutions" (ODNB). Most undated, but ranging from 1778 to the 1830s. Includes broadsides, hand bills, slip songs, tracts and other ephemera promoting Christian behavior, temperance, abolition of slavery, and the suppression of the employment of children as chimney sweeps. Many published by regional printers for the Bible and Religious Tract Association of Friends.
The following oversize items were removed for preservation: "The Contrast; or, the African slave and the English labourer", 127637.1; "Complicated misery -- Simple machinery," 127637.2 "The Great assize, or day of judgment," 127637.57; "A Christian exhortation to the people," 127637.58; "Climbing boys. The inhabitants of Darlington are congratulated...," 127637.64; "Infant schools: subjects of examination," 127637.78; "The Lock and key. Passages of the Old Testament, which testify of Jesus Christ ...," 127637.90; "The Family monitor," 127637.96; "Maxims for all who wish to be wise and good, useful and happy," 127637.123. These are located in the flat files.