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"I found, when grocer's boy," Honest Abe said "Prosperity's line, if you'd cross it, Give always good measure, save labor and use the Self measuring, Entreprise Faucet."

Description:
  • Advertisement for a tinned measuring faucet
  • Col. illus. of Lincoln pouring molasses from a barrel. The Forrestry Building below.
Year:
1893
Genre:
advertisements
Subject:
Lincoln, Abraham > 1809-1865 > Quotations
Lincoln, Abraham > 1809-1865 > Satire
Collection:
Brown University Library
Lincoln Broadsides
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Before Election.

Description:
  • Cartoon of McClellans platform with his eventual trip up "Salt River".
Year:
1864
Genre:
leaflets (printed works)
Subject:
Lincoln, Abraham > 1809-1865 > Satire
Collection:
Brown University Library
Lincoln Broadsides
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Brazilian Reaction to July 1 Meeting Between Presidents Kennedy and Goulart

Year:
1963
Contributor:
State (addressee)
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) (distribution place)
Carson, Charles C. (drafter)
Mein, John Gordon
Subject:
Rome
Meeting
Kennedy
Brazil-US relations
Public utility
Foreign debt
Adenauer
Macmillan
Diplomacy
Satire
Collection:
History
Opening the Archives: Documenting U.S.-Brazil Relations, 1960s-80s
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Copperhead Ticket.

Description:
  • For President Geo. B. McClellan. For Vice-President Geo. H. Pendleton
  • Illus. of a skull and crossbones, underneath reads "POISON"
Year:
1864
Genre:
tickets
Subject:
Lincoln, Abraham > 1809-1865 > United States > Election > 1864.
Lincoln, Abraham > 1809-1865 > Satire
Collection:
Brown University Library
Lincoln Broadsides
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El juego de las provincias de España. Segunda parte: Merendaba con unos amigos una de estas tardes que no pudiendo por la mucha lluvia salir de casa la habiamos empleado en jugar un rato, y mientras dabamos carena à medio cabrito se trataba de persuadirme à que publicase una segunda parte del juego de las provincias, ya que habia sido tan bien recibida la primera, á lo que yo me escusaba no sabiendo que capricho poder hallar que atase una con otra

Description:
  • Title from caption and beginning of text.
  • Imprint from colophon.
  • Unsigned.
  • Printed at end of p. 1: "Apuntaciones ó ensayo para la segunda parte del …
Year:
1809
Subject:
e-sp---
Spain > History > Napoleonic Conquest, 1808-1813 > Satire
Imprint 1809.
Argentina > Buenos Aires
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Gen. Dix's Proclamation

Description:
  • Satire and criticism of Abraham Lincoln's removal of writ of habeus corpus in Maryland and the vicinity of Washington D.C.
Year:
1861
Genre:
proclamations
Subject:
Lincoln, Abraham > 1809-1865 > Satire
Collection:
Brown University Library
Lincoln Broadsides
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Great Copperhead Jubilee! On the Banks of Salt River!

Description:
  • The Hero of Munson Hill, Little Mac, Commander Of all Faithful Copperheads... Grandmother "Buchanan" will give the Guesta a hearty welcome on their arrival at …
Year:
1864
Genre:
invitations
Subject:
Lincoln, Abraham > 1809-1865 > Satire
Collection:
Brown University Library
Lincoln Broadsides
Full Record

Keystone Club on its Mission. Geo. B. McClellan and Geo. H. Pendleton, Looking for the White House. Vallandigham, Superintendant.

Description:
  • Illus. of hot air balloons on either side of text. Election propaganda ticket.
Year:
1864
Genre:
handbills
Subject:
Lincoln Abraham > 1809-1865 > Election > 1864.
Lincoln Abraham > 1809-1865 > Satire
Collection:
Brown University Library
Lincoln Broadsides
Full Record

The legend of Captain Jones: Relating his adventure to sea: his first landing, and strange combat with a mighty bear. His furious battel with his six and thirty men, against the army of eleven kings, with their overthrow and deaths. His relieving of Kemper Castle. His strange and admirable sea-fight with six huge gallies of Spain, and nine thousand souldiers. His taking prisoner, and hard usage. Lastly, his setting at liberty by the Kings command, and return for England

Description:
  • Attributed to David Lloyd by Wing CD and the DNB.
  • First printed London, 1631 under title: The legend of Captaine Jones.
  • A satire, in verse, …
Year:
1659
Contributor:
Lloyd, David, 1597-1663
Subject:
e-uk---
Smith, John > 1580-1631 > Satire
Smith, John > 1580-1631 > Poetry
Sailors > England > Satire
Sailors > England > Poetry
Maya language > Poetry
Indian linguistics > Maya language
Imprint 1659.
England > London
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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The legend of Captain Jones: the first and second part. Relating his adventure to sea: his first landing, and strange combat with a mighty bear. His furious battel with his six and thirty men against the army of eleven kings, with their overthrow and deaths. His relieving of Kemper castle. His strange and admirable sea-fight with six huge gallies of Spain, and nine thousand souldiers. His being taken prisoner, and hard usage. His being set at liberty by the kings command, and return for England. Also, his other incredible adventures and atchievements by sea and land; continued to his death

Description:
  • Attributed to David Lloyd by Wing CD and the DNB.
  • First printed London, 1631 under title: The legend of Captaine Jones.
  • Another edition printed for …
Year:
1671
Contributor:
Lloyd, David, 1597-1663
Subject:
e-uk---
Smith, John > 1580-1631 > Satire
Smith, John > 1580-1631 > Poetry
Sailors > England > Satire
Sailors > England > Poetry
Maya language > Poetry
Indian linguistics > Maya language
Imprint 1671.
England > London
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Metamorphosis. Prize fight between Abram and Jeff, in four rounds. Stake: The Constitution of our Fathers.

Description:
  • photo. folded to size
Genre:
pamphlets
Subject:
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865
Lincoln, Abraham > 1809-1865 > Satire
Collection:
Brown University Library
Lincoln Broadsides
Full Record

Now Little Mac....

Description:
  • Free pass on gunboat up Salt River.
Year:
1860
Genre:
leaflets (printed works)
Subject:
Lincoln Abraham > 1809-1865 > Election > 1864.
Lincoln Abraham > 1809-1865 > Satire
Collection:
Brown University Library
Lincoln Broadsides
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O legado de Fernando Pessoa na Contemporânea: Entre o diálogo e a provocação

Description:
Desde a publicação do primeiro número, em 1922, a Contemporânea contou com a participação de Fernando Pessoa, que cedo se tornou um dos seus mais …
Year:
2022
Contributor:
Defenu, Carlotta (author)
Genre:
articles
Subject:
Pessoa, Fernando > 1888-1935
Literature
Poetry
Satire
Collection:
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
Journals@BDR
Pessoa Plural—A Journal of Fernando Pessoa Studies
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Objects reflected in Ireland's mirror

Description:
Three allegorical women greeting a man on the left, and a tree bearing the fruit of French atrocities above Death on the right; a plate …
Year:
1804
Contributor:
Holmes, George, active 1789-1802 (artist)
Genre:
etchings (prints)
Subject:
Ireland > History > 1800-1837 > Satire
Collection:
Brown University Library
Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection
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The Salt River Gazette -- Extra.

Description:
  • Wednesday, Oct. 9, 1867.
Year:
1867
Genre:
broadsides
newspapers
Subject:
Slaves > United States
Lincoln, Abraham > 1809-1865 > Satire
Collection:
Brown University Library
Lincoln Broadsides
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Soldier's daily prayer.

Description:
  • Parody on the Lord's prayer.
Genre:
leaflets (printed works)
Subject:
Lincoln, Abraham > 1809-1865 > Satire
Collection:
Brown University Library
Lincoln Broadsides
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Stories of Brazil by André Sant'Anna: satire, bovarism, and dystopia

Description:
In the contemporary globalized societies, the violence of hedonistic appeals is inherent to the ride of images and technological devices. As a result, it produces …
Year:
2016
Contributor:
Dias, Ângela Maria (author)
Genre:
articles
Subject:
Satire
Dystopias in literature
Sant'anna, André > 1964-
Collection:
Journals@BDR
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature
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The Comedy of Defeat

Description:
As one of history’s greatest losers pointed out, the adage that history is written by the victors “sounds like an order and surely originated with …
Year:
2024
Contributor:
Ciccone, Fabrizio (creator)
Quashie, Kevin (Advisor)
Reichman, Ravit (Advisor)
Bewes, Timothy (Reader)
Anderson, Amanda (Reader)
Honig, Bonnie (Reader)
Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Fascism
Great Depression
World War II
Cinema
Political theory
Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975
Comedy films
Humorous fiction
Irish literature
Global Financial Crisis (2008-2009)
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009, in motion pictures
Satire
Capra, Frank, 1897-1991
Lubitsch, Ernst, 1892-1947
Burns, Anna, 1962-
Riley, Boots
Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977
Cavell, Stanley, 1926-2018
Schivelbusch, Wolfgang, 1941-
English fiction--Irish authors
Film noir
Collection:
English
Theses and Dissertations
Available to Brown-affiliated users only
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The satiric poetry of the magazine 'Reacção': literature, history, and polemics

Description:
This article analyzes satirical and anticlerical poems from a masonic literary magazine entitled 'Reacção: Órgão de Ideas Liberaes' [Reaction: an agency of liberal ideas], and …
Year:
2021
Contributor:
Martini, Marcus De (author)
Kanitz, Janaína (author)
Genre:
articles
Subject:
Periodical editors
Satire
Collection:
Journals@BDR
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature
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The White House

Contributor:
Edeson, G. R. (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Lincoln, Abraham > 1809-1865 > Satire
Collection:
Brown University Library
Lincoln Broadsides
Full Record

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