Broadsheet advertising card printed on heavy paper.
On recto lithograph of head-and-shoulders portrait of young woman on easel; at lower right on palette: Compliments of Geo. Wm. Reed Bitter Co., New Haven, proprietors Reed's Gilt Edge Tonic, a true specific for malaria & indigestion; at lower left: Shober & Carqueville Chicago.
Illustration caption: The late Miss Jennie E. Cramer, New Haven, Conn., found dead on the beach at West Haven, Conn. Aug. 5th, 1881, supposed to have been murdered.
On verso poem in three eight-line stanzas entitled: The death of Jennie E. Cramer, beginning: Dying, away from home and friends.
Broadsides are single-sheet publications, often issued as ephemera or announcements. The Harris Broadsides Collection is a comprehensive collection of American poetry published in broadside format from colonial times to the present. The collection offers materials covering a broad spectrum of …
