The web exhibit on the South Sea Bubble, "Sunk in Lucre's Sordid Charms," at Baker Library's Historical Collections focuses on the library's extensive collection on that topic, which includes more than 300 books, broadsides, pamphlets,
Parliamentary documents, manuscripts, prints, and ephemera. Among the many items are digitized images of an entire set of playing cards, each one containing a bit of verse related to the Bubble. On the ace of diamonds depicted here, for example, is written: "An old Welch Justice mounted on a Goat/Is ask'd which way his Worship means to trot;/To London hur is Travelling, quoth he,/To sell Welch Copper, and to Buy South Sea."
A complete list of the digitized records can be found on the website.
A complete list of the digitized records can be found on the website.