Government publications
Proclamations and ordinances, i.e. laws, regulations and rules issued by Dutch local, provincial and national authorities. These government publications were often printed on one side of a single sheet of paper as a placard. In addition, they were published as small, handy booklets. Of the hundreds of thousands of placards that must have been published until the early nineteenth century, the KB has approximately 30,000 in its collection, of which about half are broadsheets. 
In the 1930s, the material was described in a printed catalogue. The details contained in this catalogue have been added to the images. Rules on ‘horn beasts’, beer, playing cards or ‘clap money’; they can all be found in the Memory.

Occasional poetry
Poems written and printed for a particular occasion: from births, weddings, promotions or birthdays to miraculous healings, an accession to office or the death of a public figure.  The KB owns almost 4,000 occasional poems, of which approximately 500 were published as broadsheet.

Various materials
Geographic maps, engravings and lithographs – whether or not part of a book – with town plans, portraits and images of buildings and animals. This is visually very attractive material on all sorts of subject matter: it includes, for example, a representation of The total solar eclipse of 28 July 1851, but also an Allegorical scene, of the long-awaited and happy birth of the Hereditary Prince of Orange-Nassau dated 1748 and a representation of the Gravestone for Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette dated 1796.