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Aid the blind man
Description:
Within border of type ornaments.
At head of text: Notice. - The bearer having lost his eyesight, ..
Year:
1900
Contributor:
Cole, S. D. (creator)
Genre:
broadsides (notices)
Subject:
Poets, Blind > Poetry
Appeals for charity > Poetry
People with disabilities > Employment > Poetry
Blindness > Poetry
Local ID:
HB23315
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record
Appeal to friends
Description:
Former maker of hoes describes accidental loss of right arm and offers poems for sale.
Year:
1860
Contributor:
Emmons, F. (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Emmons, F > Biography
Accidents > Poetry
Industrial accidents > Poetry
People with disabilities > Poetry
Appeals for charity
United States > New York > Leonardsville
Local ID:
HB38106 NY
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record
An appeal to the charitable
Description:
Within ornamental border
Poem in five stanzas of four lines each with printed attribution "by W.H. Chase"
Text at head of title recommending Chase is …
Year:
1840
Contributor:
Chase, William H (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
People with disabilities > Poetry
Local ID:
HB12497
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record
As I reflect on former days
Description:
Title from first line.
Printed in two columns.
Date suggested from internal evidence.
Author says he has been blind from birth.
Year:
1830
Contributor:
Champlin, Hazard. (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Religious poetry
Providence and government of God > Poetry
Poets, physically handicapped
Blind > Poetry
People with disabilities > Employment > Poetry
Local ID:
HB19467 RI
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record
The author of the ballads or any other man
Description:
Pages [2-4] blank; ruled.
Printed in green.
At head of text: By R.B. Nicol, author and publisher of a choice collection of popular songs. Address …
Year:
1864
Contributor:
Nicol, R. B. (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Appeals for charity
People with disabilities, Writings of, American
American poetry > Authors with disabilities
People with disabilities > Employment
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Poetry
Local ID:
HB8699
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record
The blindman's appeal = Appel de l'aveugle
Description:
Within double-line border printed in two columns divided by double rule; one poem in each column.
English poem with French translation beginning: Enseveli d'obscurité.
Type-signed …
Year:
1850
Contributor:
Whipple, B. F. (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Appeals for charity
People with disabilities > Employment > Poetry
Poets, Physically handicapped
Blind > Poetry
Local ID:
HB20920
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record
The conversion of A.W. Harmon
Description:
Written by himself.
Poetry printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line; within double border of type ornaments.
At bottom within border beneath curvilinear line: …
Year:
1850
Contributor:
Harmon, A. W. (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Religious poetry
Conversion > Poetry
People with disabilities > Poetry
Diseases > Poetry
Appeals for charity
United States > Massachusetts > Salem
Local ID:
HB30746
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record
The conversion of A.W. Harmon
Description:
Written by himself.
Poetry printed in two columns within border of type ornaments.
Internal evidence, e.g. border,mention of Portland, Me., suggests possible range of dates …
Year:
1850
Contributor:
Harmon, A. W. (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Religious poetry
Conversion > Poetry
People with disabilities > Poetry
Diseases > Poetry
Appeals for charity
United States > Maine > Portland
Local ID:
HB1634
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record
Dieses Gedicht zum verkaufen fuer die Wohlthat eines blinden Mannes:
This poetry for sale for the benefit of a blind man
Description:
Broadsheet printed on heavy violet paper.
German text on recto and English on verso.
Poem in four numbered four-line stanzas and final stanza requesting money. …
Year:
1860
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Blindness > Poetry
People with disabilities > Employment > Poetry
Appeals for charity > Poetry
German American poetry
American poetry > Translations into German
United States > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia
Local ID:
HB33046 PA
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record
The disabeled soldier
Description:
Within double-line border.
To be sung to the tune: Just after the battle.
Poem in three eight-line stanzas.
At end of text below dotted line: …
Year:
1865
Contributor:
Shelle, Alexander (publisher)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
People with disabilities > Poetry
Appeals for charity
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Poetry
Local ID:
HB28305
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record
The empty sleeve
Description:
Within border of type ornaments.
At head of text: Written by a one-armed soldier, of the 147th Pa. Vols.
At end of text: Sold by …
Year:
1860
Contributor:
One-armed soldier of the 147th Pa. Vols (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
People with disabilities > Poetry
Appeals for charity
Disabled veterans > Poetry
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Poetry
Local ID:
HB19851
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record
For sale for the benefit of the blind man:
who lost his eyesight while in the performance of his duty. He has a home and family to support, and takes this means to obtain an honest living for them
Description:
Within border of multiple type ornaments with ornamental corners.
At head of text: The benevolent will give what they can afford.
Year:
1800
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Blindness > Poetry
People with disabilities > Employment
Appeals for charity
Local ID:
HB1206
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record
For sale for the benefit of the blind man!:
Who lost his eyesight while in the performance of his duty. He has a home and family to support and takes this means to obtain an honest living for them
Description:
Within border of type ornaments.
At head of text: The benevolent will give what they can afford.
At end of text: Phoenix Job Printing Rooms …
Year:
1800
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Blindness > Poetry
People with disabilities > Employment
Appeals for charity
Local ID:
HB1205
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record
For sale for the benefit of the blind man!:
Who lost his eyesight while in the performance of his duty. He has a home and family to support and takes this means to obtain an honest living for them
Description:
Within border of type ornaments.
At head of text: The benevolent will give what they can afford.
At end of text: Phoenix Job Printing Rooms …
Year:
1800
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Blindness > Poetry
People with disabilities > Employment
Appeals for charity
Local ID:
HB1205
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record
For sale for the benefit of the blind man!:
Who lost his eyesight while in the performance of his duty. He has a home and family to support and takes this means to obtain an honest living for them
Description:
Within border of type ornaments.
At head of text: The benevolent will give what they can afford.
At end of text: Phoenix Job Printing Rooms …
Year:
1800
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Blindness > Poetry
People with disabilities > Employment
Appeals for charity
Local ID:
HB1206
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record
For sale for the benefit of the blind man!:
Who lost his eyesight while in the performance of his duty. He has a home and family to support and takes this means to obtain an honest living for them
Description:
Within border of type ornaments.
At head of text: The benevolent will give what they can afford.
At end of text: Phoenix Job Printing Rooms …
Year:
1800
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Blindness > Poetry
People with disabilities > Employment
Appeals for charity
Local ID:
HB1205
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record
Help the blind woman along
Description:
At end of text: Please return if not bought.
Dated because of another broadside in Brown's Broadsides Collection with same text but "man" replacing "woman" …
Year:
1923
Contributor:
Smith, W. M. (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Blindness > Poetry
Appeals for charity
People with disabilities > Employment > Poetry
Local ID:
HB21230
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record
His condition and history
Description:
composed by the bearer, H.C. Harris.
Printed in red, green and black within red and green double border of type ornament sections in two columns. …
Year:
1872
Contributor:
Harris, H. C. (creator)
Genre:
broadsides (notices)
Subject:
Appeals for charity
People with disabilities > Poetry
Wood-engraving, American > 19th century
United States > Michigan > Hastings
Local ID:
HB30296
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record
The lame labor to live
Description:
Within ornamental border.
1 broadsheet.
At head of title: To the public Amsterdam, N.Y. January 11th, 1895. The bearer of this met with a misfortune.
Year:
1895
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Appeals for charity
People with disabilities > Employment
Poets, Physically handicapped
Infants > Poetry
Local ID:
HB17805
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record
The little man:
Isaiah A. Hatch, South Wellfleet, Mass. Age, 58 years; height, 3 feet, 7 inches; weight, 80 pounds
Description:
Crippled dwarf without family asks for help.
Year:
1850
Contributor:
Stickney, Julia Noyes, b. 1830 (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Hatch, Isaiah A > Poetry
Appeals for charity
People with disabilities > Poetry
United States > Massachusetts
Local ID:
HB19476
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record
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