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436
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58
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156
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64
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58
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77
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557
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116
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53
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67
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283
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112
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61
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The song they all sing
Description:
Within ornamental border.
Poem in five eight-line stanzas.
At end of text: E.A. Putnam, 9 Meridian St., East Boston.
Suggested range of publication dates from …
Year:
1400
Contributor:
E.A. Putnam (Firm) (publisher)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Footwear > Poetry
Boston (Mass.) > Boots and shoes > Trade and manufacture
United States > Massachusetts > Boston
Local ID:
HB17347
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record
Suliemannus Magnus Turcorum Vezerius aegro animo faman Dardae (quam ipsum Turcicum praesidium primo Christianorum Amorum conspectu terrefactum accensam deseruit die 1. Novemb. 1686.) percipiens, tandem valedicit Ungariae
Description:
Broadside with engraved illustration of Grand Vizier outside tent at right, receiving news from courier of Turkish defeat at Dardae; map in left background.
Year:
1686
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Turkey > History, Military > 17th century
Local ID:
TuP1686f-1
Collection:
Brown University Library
Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection
Full Record
Upon Mr. Samuel Willard:
his first coming into the Assembly, and Praying, after a long and dangerous fit of sickness; November 21. 1700. at 3. in the afternoon, being a Day of Publick Thanksgiving. Mr. Pemberton's Text, Psal.118.27
Description:
At head of title: border of type ornaments (See Reilly 593).
At end of text: October 8th, 1700.
Year:
1700
Contributor:
Sewall, Samuel, 1652-1730 (creator)
Foxcroft, Samuel. (former owner)
Green, Bartholomew, 1667-1732 (printer)
Allen, John, 1660?-1741 (printer)
Pemberton, Ebenezer, 1672-1717 (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Willard, Samuel > 1640-1707 > Poetry
Thanksgiving > Poetry
United States > Massachusetts > Boston
Local ID:
HB12325
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record
Subscription paper
Description:
Printed area: 11.5 x 15.9 cm.
Subscribers pledge funds for corporation to aid widows and orphans of Congregational ministers.
Place of publication because of provenance; …
Year:
1700
Contributor:
Barnes, D. (former owner)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Survivors' benefits
Congregational churches > Rhode Island
Spouses of clergy
Children of clergy
United States > Rhode Island
Local ID:
RB955
Collection:
Brown University Library
Brown Olio
Full Record
The maiden's best adorning:
or A directory to the female sex: being a father's advice to his daughter. Wherein all young ones, especially those of that sex, are directed how they may obtain the greatest beauty, and adorn themselves with an holy conversation
Description:
Pages [2, 4] blank; pages [1, 3] identical; intended to be separated.
Printed in two columns separated by line of type ornaments; line of different …
Year:
1700
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Religious poetry
Admonitory verses
Conduct of life > Poetry
Women > Poetry
Local ID:
HB704
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record
An elegy in memory of the worshipful Major Thomas Leonard Esq. of Taunton in New-England :bWho departed this life on the 24th. Day of November, Anno Domini 1713. In the 73d Year of his age
Description:
Signed: Moestus Composuit; Samuel Danforth.
Imprint from Evans.
Within mourning border printed in two columns divided by heavy line.
Woodcut of Death the Reaper bearing …
Year:
1713
Contributor:
Danforth, Samuel, 1666-1727 (creator)
Green, Bartholomew, 1667-1732 (printer)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Leonard, Thomas > 1641-1713 > Poetry
Death in poetry
Eulogies
Wood-engraving, American > 18th century
Elegiac poetry
United States > Massachusetts > Boston
Local ID:
HB8484
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record
A collection of mi[s]celany poems is in preparation for the press:
and will be shortly published if sufficient incou[r]agement be given by subscription, which will be taken in by Thomas Hancock, bookseller in Ann-street Boston
Description:
Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments (Reilly 572, 777, and 619) at end of each column; initial block.
At head of …
Year:
1727
Contributor:
Hancock, Thomas, 1703-1764 (bookseller)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Religious poetry
Booksellers and bookselling > Colportage, subscription trade, etc
Local ID:
HB12107
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record
Vernon's courage:
or, The English valour display'd in taking Porto Bello from the Spaniards, December 4th, 1739
Description:
Printed in two columns with cut of ship at left of title.
At end of text: Finis. Boston: Printed and sold over against the prison. …
Year:
1740
Contributor:
Kneeland, Samuel, 1697-1769 (printer)
Green, Timothy, 1703-1763 (printer)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Vernon, Edward > 1684-1757 > Poetry
Battles > Panama > Poetry
Patriotic poetry
Wood-engraving, American > 18th century
United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > Poetry
Great Britain > History > George I, II, 1714-1760 > Poetry
Boston (Mass.) > Prison, over against the
Local ID:
HB14109 MA
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record
A poem in honour of the Reverend Mr. Whitefield:
Composed upon hearing him preach with so much flame the truths of the blessed gospel of the Son of God. Boston, November 28th 1744
Description:
By a Gentlewoman.
With headband on page 1 and tailpiece (Reilly 179) on page 4.
Note in Mansell NP 0438868 for this broadside reads: ... …
Year:
1744
Contributor:
Moorhead, Sarah Parsons. (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Whitefield, George > 1714-1770 > Poetry
Inspirational poetry
Wood-engraving, American > 18th century
United States > Massachusetts > Boston
Local ID:
HB30438MA
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record
Notice is hereby given to the curious:
that at the Court-House, in the Council-Chamber, is now to be exhibited, and continued from day to day, for a week or two; a course of experiments, on the newly discovered electrical fire
Description:
Printed in two columns.
Printed area: 31 x 19 cm.
Gives numbered headings of first two lectures.
At head of title: Newport, March 16. 1752. …
Year:
1752
Contributor:
Kinnersley, Ebenezer, 1711-1778 (creator)
Franklin, James, 1732?-1762 (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Kinnersley, Ebenezer > 1711-1778
Electricity > Early works to 1850
Electricity > Experiments
Electricity > Study and teaching
Newport (R.I.) > Lectures
United States > Rhode Island > Newport
Local ID:
RB1005
Collection:
Brown University Library
Rider Broadsides
Full Record
November 1, 1755:
To the House of Magistrates
Description:
Resolution to levy a 70,000 pound tax on Rhode Island towns, with table assigning sums; orders a printed copy to be sent to each town …
Year:
1755
Contributor:
Rhode Island (creator)
Franklin, James, 1732?-1762 (printer)
Franklin, Ann, 1695-1763 (printer)
Ward, Thomas, 1711-1760 (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Taxation > Rhode Island
Rhode Island > Politics and government > To 1775
United States > Rhode Island > Newport
Local ID:
RB968
Collection:
Brown University Library
Brown Olio
Full Record
The voice of God, in the terrors of earthquakes:
being a poetical composition occasioned by the repeated shocks, which on the 18th of November in the morning, and on the Saturday night following, threatned [i.e. threatened] us with a wide destruction
Description:
Printed in three columns divided by line of type ornaments (Reilly 756,749)
Line of type ornaments (Reilly 726) at head of text; single line at …
Year:
1755
Contributor:
Edes, Benjamin, 1732-1803 (printer)
Gill, John, 1732-1785 (printer)
Kneeland, Samuel, 1697-1769 (printer)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Earthquakes > New England > Poetry
Admonitory verses
Earthquakes > Massachusetts > Boston > Poetry
Boston (Mass.) > History > Poetry
Local ID:
HB16852
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record
An elogy on the death of Mr. Nathaniel Burt:
deacon of the Church of Christ at Longmeadow, and Lieutenant in his Majesty's service; who was killed in the memorable battle at Lake George, Sept. 8, 1755, in the 45th year of his age
Description:
Printed in two columns divided by single line.
At head of text: Know ye not that there is a great man fallen this day?...
Year:
1755
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Burt, Nathaniel > 1711-1755 > Poetry
Williams, Stephen > 1693-1782 > Biography
Church of Christ (Longmeadow, Mass.) > History
Elegiac poetry
Death in poetry
United States > History > French and Indian War, 1754-1763 > Casualties > Poetry
United States > Massachusetts > Springfield
Local ID:
HB15455
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record
The children in the woods:
being a true relation of the inhuman murder of two children of a deceased gentleman in Norfolk, whom he left to the care of his brother
Description:
Printed in three columns.
At left, next to subtitle, wood-engraving of two duelists with two children watching; bird carrying spray of leaves flying above (cf. …
Year:
1757
Contributor:
Fleet, Thomas, 1732-1797 (printer)
Fleet, John, 1734-1806 (printer)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Wood-engraving, American > 18th century
Infanticide > Poetry
Murder > Poetry
Death in poetry
Narrative poetry
United States > Massachusetts > Boston
Local ID:
HB11847
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record
An Act for proportioning the rate of one hundred thousand pounds old-tenor, upon the several towns in this Colony:
and for ordering the same to be assessed, levied, and collected, before or upon the last day of October next
Description:
Broadsheet.
Line of type ornaments at head of title; both sides numbered.
At head of title: At the General Assembly of the Governor and Company …
Year:
1757
Contributor:
Franklin, Ann, 1695?-1763 (printer)
Franklin, James, 1732?-1762 (printer)
Ward, Thomas. (inscriber)
Rhode Island (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
n-us-ri
Taxation > Rhode Island
Great Britain > Colonies > America > Economic policy
Rhode Island > Politics and government > To 1775
United States > Rhode Island > Newport
Local ID:
RB948
Collection:
Brown University Library
Brown Olio
Full Record
An Act for supplying the General Treasury with the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand pounds old tenor:
by a rate or tax to be assessed and levied upon the inhabitants of this Colony, and paid in before or on the last day of January next
Description:
Page [4] blank; pages 1-3 with bracketed numbers.
At head of title royal arms of Great Britain; floral tailpiece printed upside-down at end of text …
Year:
1757
Contributor:
Franklin, James, 1732?-1762 (printer)
Ward, Thomas. (inscriber)
Rhode Island (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
n-us-ri
Franklin, Ann > 1695?-1763 > printer
Taxation > Rhode Island
Rhode Island > Politics and government > To 1775
Great Britain > Colonies > America > Economic policy
United States > Rhode Island > Newport
Local ID:
RB937
Collection:
Brown University Library
Brown Olio
Full Record
An Act for proportioning the rate of one hundred thousand pounds old-tenor, upon the several towns in this Colony:
and for ordering the same to be assessed, levied, and collected, before or upon the last day of October next
Description:
Broadsheet.
Line of type ornaments at head of title; both sides numbered.
At head of title: At the General Assembly of the Governor and Company …
Year:
1757
Contributor:
Franklin, Ann, 1695?-1763 (printer)
Franklin, James, 1732?-1762 (printer)
Ward, Thomas. (inscriber)
Rhode Island (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
n-us-ri
Taxation > Rhode Island
Great Britain > Colonies > America > Economic policy
Rhode Island > Politics and government > To 1775
United States > Rhode Island > Newport
Local ID:
RB949
Collection:
Brown University Library
Brown Olio
Full Record
An Act for assessing upon the inhabitants of this colony, a rate or tax of four thousand pounds, in bills of credit which were emitted in February, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-six:
to be collected, levied, and brought into the General Treasury, before or upon the last day of February next
Description:
Pages 1-3 numbered; page [4] blank.
At head of title royal arms of Great Britain (Reilly 919); at end of text floral tailpiece (Reilly 227) …
Year:
1757
Contributor:
Franklin, Ann, 1695?-1763 (printer)
Franklin, James, 1732?-1762 (printer)
Ward, Thomas. (signer)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
n-us-ri
Taxation > Law and legislation > Rhode Island
Rhode Island > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Great Britain > Colonies > America
United States > Rhode Island > Newport
Local ID:
RB945
Collection:
Brown University Library
Brown Olio
Full Record
The Newport Mercury, or, the Weekly advertiser; with the freshest advices, foreign and domestic
Numb. 27. Tuesday, December 19, 1758
Description:
Printed in two columns on grayish-tan paper; cut of sailing ship at center of title; decorated initialblock at head of first column on page [1] …
Year:
1758
Contributor:
Franklin, James, 1732?-1762 (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Great Britain > History > George II, 1727-1760
United States > History > French and Indian War, 1754-1763
United States > Rhode Island > Newport
Local ID:
RB1049 1758
Collection:
Brown University Library
Rider Broadsides
Full Record
The death of the brave General Wolf
Description:
Cut of crow in tree and fox underneath, from Aesop's fable, at head of title.
Year:
1759
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Wolfe, James > 1727-1759 > Poetry
Wood-engraving, American > 18th century
Québec Campaign, 1759 > Poetry
Death in poetry
United States > History > French and Indian War, 1755-1763 > Campaigns > Poetry
Great Britain > History, Military > 18th century > Poetry
Local ID:
HB11573
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record
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