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Year:: 1791
Contributor:: Russell, Ezekiel, 1743-1796 (printer); Bassett, Thomas, d. 1816 (printer)
Genre:: broadsides
Subject:: Butler, Richard > 1743-1791 > Portraits; Indians of North America > Wars > 1790-1794 > Poetry; St. Clair's Campaign, 1791 > Poetry; Wood-engraving, American > 18th century; Coffins on broadsides; United States > History > 1783-1815 > Poetry; Ohio River Valley > History > To 1795; United States > Massachusetts > Boston
Local ID:: HB18986
Extent:: 1 broadside : ill. ; 54 x 50 cm.
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Notes:: Poetry.; Forty-one numbered stanzas of verse printed in four columns within mourning border, with title, "A funeral elegy on the occasion." Preceded by a "List of killed and wounded officers."; With several cuts: At head, two rows of coffins bearing the names of the thirty-nine officers killed; five additional cuts throughout text, among them cf.'Reilly 1575, 280, and 456'; At end of text: America: Boston; Printed by E. Russell, for Thomas Bassett, of Dunbarton (New-Hamp.)... Said Bassett sells Bickerstaff's Almanack, for 1792, as cheap as at this Office.; First line of poem: Ye friends to men attend the tale.

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"The Columbian tragedy: Containing a part[icular] a[n]d [offici]al account of the brave and unfortunate officers and soldiers, who were slain and wounded in the [ev]er-memorable and bloody Indian battle ... Nov. 4, 1791; between two thousand Americans, belonging to the United Army, and near five tho[usan]d wild Indian savages, at Miami-Village, near Fort-Washington, in the Ohio-country " (1791). Harris Broadsides. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:297801/

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Harris Broadsides

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 …
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