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1874 The Granite Mill fire. 1907:
Published by request
Description:
Poetry and prose.
Prose text printed in one column and poem in two divided by single line within border of type ornaments.
At end of …
Year:
1907
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Granite Mill No. 1 (Fall River, Mass.) > Poetry
Disasters > Poetry
Fires > Massachusetts > Fall River > Poetry
Textile factories > Fires and fire prevention > Poetry
United States > Massachusetts > Fall River
Local ID:
HB27407
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
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1874 The Granite Mill fire. 1907:
Published by request
Description:
Poetry and prose.
Prose text printed in one column and poem in two divided by single line within border of type ornaments.
At end of …
Year:
1907
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Granite Mill No. 1 (Fall River, Mass.) > Fire, 1874 > Poetry
Disasters > Poetry
Fires > Massachusetts > Fall River > Poetry
Textile factories > Fires and fire prevention > Poetry
United States > Massachusetts > Fall River
Local ID:
HB27407
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
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Abraham May
Description:
Poem recounts accident in which May was blinded and lost right arm.
Year:
1871
Contributor:
Smith, H. M. (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
May, Abraham > Poetry
Blind > Poetry
Disasters > Poetry
Railroads > Employees > Poetry
Appeals for charity
United States > New York > Redwood
Local ID:
HB38906
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record
The accident at Hooksett three bridges
Description:
Within ornamental border.
Year:
1890
Contributor:
Beard, Alexander B. (Alexander Burgess), b. 1852 (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Disasters > New Hampshire > Hooksett > Poetry
Hooksett (N.H.) > Poetry
Local ID:
HB16550 NH
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
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An account of the fire in Merimachi:
in the year 1825
Description:
by Thos. M. Jordan.
Poetry in 21 four-line stanzas printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments.
The broadside was probably printed in …
Year:
1825
Contributor:
Jordan, Thomas M., fl. 1825-1830 (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Fires > New Brunswick > Newcastle > Poetry
Disasters > Poetry
Newcastle (N.B.) > Poetry
United States > Maine
Local ID:
HB37737
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
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The Calender Street calamity
Description:
by James Jowett, of Providence.
Pages [2] and [3] blank.
Within double-line border on pages [1] and [4]
Vignette of bird and foliage at head …
Year:
1882
Contributor:
Jowett, James. (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Timman, Chris (Christian) > Poetry
Fires > Rhode Island > Providence > Poetry
Disasters > Rhode Island > Providence > Poetry
Death in poetry
United States > Rhode Island > Providence
Local ID:
HB40801
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record
The Calender Street fire
Description:
Within border or type ornaments.
Year:
1882
Contributor:
Austin, Edward S. (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Fires > Rhode Island > Providence > Poetry
Disasters > Rhode Island > Poetry
Providence (R.I.) > History > Poetry
Local ID:
HB17097
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record
The Calender Street horror
Description:
Song about fatal mill fire praises Chris Timman, rescuer of two girls.
Year:
1883
Contributor:
Bell, Billy. (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Timman, Chris (Christian) > Poetry
Fires > Rhode Island > Providence > Poetry
Disasters > Rhode Island > Providence > Poetry
United States > Rhode Island > Providence
Local ID:
RB543 1883
Collection:
Brown University Library
Rider Broadsides
Full Record
California's calamity!
Description:
Air: Old Kentucky home.
Year:
1906
Contributor:
Fitzwilliam, Edward. (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Disasters > Poetry
San Francisco (Calif.) > History > Poetry
Earthquakes > California > San Francisco > Poetry
Fires > California > San Francisco > Poetry
Local ID:
HB8511 MA
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record
Carrier's address:
Times
Description:
Poem mentions poverty and plenty, floods, shipwrecks and anarchist violence, then asks tip.
Year:
1888
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
New Year > Poetry
Disasters > Poetry
Paperboys > Poetry
United States > New York > Oswego
Local ID:
HB30706
Collection:
Brown University Library
Carriers' Addresses
Full Record
The city of Columbus
Description:
By Geo. W. G. Russell.
Below title cut of steamboat with small paddle-wheel and sails.
Poem in eight four-line stanzas.
Suggested publication date from date …
Year:
1884
Contributor:
Russell, George W. G. (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
City of Columbus (Steamer) > Poetry
Shipwrecks > Poetry
Disasters > Poetry
United States > Massachusetts > Boston
Local ID:
HB30487
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
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Collins Graves:
Der Retter im Mill-River Thal
Description:
1 broadsheet.
At end of text: New York, 21, Mai, 1874.
Year:
1874
Contributor:
Gerhard, Friedrich. (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Graves, Collins
Mill River Disaster, 1874
Disasters > Massachusetts
Mill River Valley (Hampshire County, Mass.) > History
German American poetry
Local ID:
HB21345
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record
The death of William Harmon
Description:
Composed by A.W.H.
Poetry in 24 four-line stanzas printed in two columns; within border of type ornaments.
Internal evidence, e.g. border and mention of Portland …
Year:
1850
Contributor:
Harmon, A. W. (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Harmon, William > Poetry
Drowning > Poetry
Death in poetry
Disasters > Poetry
United States > Maine > Portland
Local ID:
HB38195
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record
The death of William Harmon
Description:
Poet's brother is knocked overboard and drowned.
Year:
1850
Contributor:
Harmon, A. W. (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Harmon, William > Death and burial > Poetry
Drowning > Poetry
Disasters > Poetry
Brothers > Poetry
Death in poetry
United States > Maine > Portland
Local ID:
HB1069
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record
Distressing fire at Salmon Falls
Description:
Poem describes fatal fire in seven-story building, probably a factory.
Year:
1834
Contributor:
Robinson, M. (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Fires > Poetry
Children > Death > Religious aspects > Poetry
Disasters > Poetry
United States > New Hampshire
Local ID:
HB3122 NH
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record
Echoes from Johnstown
Description:
Poem in five numbered stanzas about Johnstown Flood.
At end of text: Written and composed by Tom Hall, Olneyville, R.I.
First line: Kind friends just …
Year:
1889
Contributor:
Hall, Tom. (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
n-us-ri
Floods > Pennsylvania > Johnstown > Poetry
Disasters > Poetry
United States > Rhode Island > Olneyville
Local ID:
RB1374 1889
Collection:
Brown University Library
Rider Broadsides
Full Record
An elegy on the death of Mr. Almond Benton, aged 19, Miss Betsy Garfield, aged 21, and Miss Ru[t]h Mills, aged 19, who were all drowned in Tythingham Pond, in Massachusetts, in July, 1812
Description:
Ornamental border with cuts at end of text.
Year:
1812
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Benton, Almond > d. 1812
Garfield, Betsy > d. 1812
Mills, Ruth > d. 1812
Death in poetry
Disasters > Poetry
Drowning > Massachusetts > Poetry
Local ID:
HB20961 MA
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record
Ellen Jane Hunter:
Perished in the flames at the Granite Mill No. 1, Fall River, Mass. Aged 15 years, 3 months, and 19 days
Description:
Within border of type ornaments.
Year:
1874
Contributor:
W. S. H.
B., G. W.
S., M. B. C.
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Hunter, Ellen Jane > 1859-1874
Death in poetry
Memorial tribute
Disasters
Fires
Fires > Massachusetts > Fall River
Local ID:
HB24389
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record
Explosion at the celluloid works
Description:
Within mourning border and inner single-line border.
Text of song in one nine-line and two eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Down at the celluloid …
Year:
1870
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Disasters > Poetry
Industrial accidents > Poetry
Death in poetry
Local ID:
HB31488
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record
The fatal accident on the Boston & Providence R.R., March 14, 1887
Year:
1887
Contributor:
Beard, Alexander B. (Alexander Burgess), b. 1852 (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Boston and Providence Railroad Corporation > Poetry
Railroad accidents > United States
Death in poetry
Disasters > Poetry
Local ID:
HB22445 RI
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record
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