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"Burnside Zouaves" march

Description:
  • composed by D.W. Reeves, leader of the American Brass-Band, Providence, R.I.
  • Cover title.
  • "Dedicated to Colonel Charles D. Jillson"--cover.
  • Color lithographic cover illustration by J.F. …
Year:
1868
Contributor:
Reeves, David Wallis, 1838-1900 (composer)
Verelst & Co. (lithographer)
Genre:
sheet music
Subject:
n-us-ri
Rhode Island. Militia
Marches (piano), Arranged
Military music > United States
Zouaves > Pictorial works
Rhode Island > Composers and musicians
Collection:
Brown University Library
Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection
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"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty!"

Description:
  • Calls for recruits for Fourth Rhode Island Regiment for three years at $13 per month.
  • At end of text: Cooke & Danielson, State Printers, Evening …
Year:
1861
Contributor:
Cooke & Danielson (printer)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
n-us-ri
United States. > Army. > Rhode Island Infantry Regiment, 4th (1861-1864)
United States. > Army > Recruiting, enlistment, etc > Civil War, 1861-1865
Advertising > Recruiting and enlistment
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Sources
United States > Rhode Island > Providence
Local ID:
RB998 1861
Collection:
Brown University Library
Rider Broadsides
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"Fiat Justitia ruat coelum"--Justice must triumph

Description:
  • Printed area: 24 x 13 cm.
  • At head of title: portrait of Thomas Man with facsimile signature.
  • Campaign poster for Whig candidates Henry Clay and …
Year:
1844
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
n-us-ri
Man, Thomas > 1795-1880 > Portraits
Clay, Henry > 1777-1852
Frelinghuysen, Theodore > 1787-1862
Dorr, Thomas Wilson > 1805-1854
Campaign literature, 1844 > Whig
Political posters > Rhode Island
Rhode Island > Politics and government > 1775-1865 > Sources
United States > Rhode Island
Local ID:
RB231 1844
Collection:
Brown University Library
Rider Broadsides
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$5 reward!: in greenbacks or other paper currency!

Description:
  • Within border of type ornaments.
  • Offers reward for white poodle named Beauty of the Woods belonging to French vice consul at Providence, stolen Nov. 5, …
Year:
1863
Contributor:
Fauvel Gouraud, J. B. G. (creator)
Greene, Henry. (creator)
A. Crawford Greene & Son (publisher)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
n-us-ri
Dogs
Theft
United States > Rhode Island > Providence
Local ID:
RB344 1863.11
Collection:
Brown University Library
Rider Broadsides
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100 dollars reward

Description:
  • Printed area: 18 x 22 cm.
  • Double lines beneath title.
  • Announces reward for information leading to conviction of participants in riot of Sept. 21, 1831, …
Year:
1831
Contributor:
Field, Richard M.
Genre:
broadsides (notices)
Subject:
n-us-ri
African Americans > Crimes against
Riots > Rhode Island > Providence
Providence (R.I.) > Riot, 1831
Providence (R.I.) > History
Providence (R.I.) > Race relations
Rhode Island > History > 1775-1865 > Sources
Rhode Island > Politics and government > 1775-1865 > Sources
United States > Rhode Island > Providence
Local ID:
RB
Collection:
Brown University Library
Rider Broadsides
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1781 Yorktown 1881: State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Providence, Oct. 26th, 1881

Description:
  • Printed area measures: 17.7 x 16.8 cm.
  • Invitation to steamboat excursion to and reception in Newport, R.I., for representatives from France returning from the centennial …
Year:
1881
Contributor:
Sheffield, William P. (creator)
Metcalf, Henry Brewer, 1829-1904 (creator)
Rhode Island (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
n-us-ri
Visitors, Foreign > Rhode Island > Newport
Rhode Island > Visitors, Foreign
Yorktown (Va.) > History > Siege, 1781 > Centennial celebrations, etc
United States > Rhode Island > Providence
Local ID:
RB354 1881
Collection:
Brown University Library
Rider Broadsides
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[Act to prevent outrages against the Indians]

Description:
  • Ms. broadside.
  • Title supplied by cataloguer.
  • Caption title and first part of text reads: At the Gen[era]l Assembly held for the colony at Newport the …
Year:
1681
Contributor:
Rhode Island
Providence (R.I.)
Subject:
n-us-ri
Indians, Treatment of > Rhode Island
Indians of North America > Rhode Island
Law > Rhode Island
Session laws > Rhode Island
Manuscripts > English
Rhode Island > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Imprint 1681.
United States > Rhode Island > Newport
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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[Indian deed of Warwick, Rhode Island]

Description:
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title supplied by cataloguer and from title of ms. transcription of larger, original deed housed in JCB bibliographical file.
  • Text of dead reads: …
Year:
1642
Contributor:
Miantonomo, -1643
Holden, Randall, 1612-1692
Greene, John, 1606-approximately 1695
Gorton, Samuel, 1592 or 1593-1677
Waterman, Richard, approximately 1590-1673
Subject:
n-us-ri
Narragansett Indians
Deeds > Rhode Island > Warwick
Land titles > Rhode Island > Warwick
Manuscripts > English
Warwick (R.I.) > History
Imprint 1642.
United States > Rhode Island > Warwick
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
Full Record

[Memorandum book]

Description:
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title supplied by cataloguer.
  • Manuscript account and memorandum book of a German-born Rhode Island mariner, merchants' agent and teacher of navigation. The entries …
Year:
1741
Contributor:
Engs, William, active 1741-1756
Subject:
n-us-ri
Account books > Rhode Island
Merchant mariners > Rhode Island
Manuscripts > English
Louisbourg (N.S.) > History > Siege, 1745
Nova Scotia > History > 1713-1763
Canada > History > To 1763 (New France)
Rhode Island > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Imprint 1741.
Imprint 1756.
United States > Rhode Island > Newport
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
Full Record

[Orderly book kept in Newport and Portsmouth, Rhode Island in 1780]

Description:
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title supplied by cataloguer.
  • Signed at foot of p. [15]: Samuel Reed his book of Abington March ye 3 1781 Sa.; other names …
Year:
1780
Contributor:
Thayer, Simeon, 1738-1800
Brown, John Nicholas, 1900-1979
Subject:
n-us-ri
United States. > Continental Army.
Manuscripts > English
United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > American forces
Rhode Island > History > Revolution, 1775-1783
Imprint 1780.
United States > Rhode Island > Newport
United States > Rhode Island > Portsmouth
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Abstract of the returns of the public schools, made May session, A.D. 1843

Description:
  • Printed area: 21 x 19 cm.
  • In upper part table of expenses for schools and number of teachers and students by sex in each town; …
Year:
1843
Contributor:
Rhode Island (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
n-us-ri
Schools > Rhode Island > Statistics
Public schools > Rhode Island > Statistics
Local ID:
RB66 1843
Collection:
Brown University Library
Rider Broadsides
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An account of the capture and burning of the British schooner "Gaspee."

Description:
  • Caption title.
  • Place of publication and name of printer from colophon below second column.
  • Dated and signed at foot of second column: twenty-ninth day of …
Year:
1839
Contributor:
Bowen, Ephraim, 1753-
Greene, Daniel, 1793-1850
Subject:
n-us-ri
Bowen, Ephraim > 1753-
Gaspee (Schooner)
Broadsides, etc > Rhode Island > Providence
Providence (R.I.) > History
Rhode Island > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Imprint 1839.
United States > Rhode Island > Providence
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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An account of the observation of Venus upon the sun, the third day of June, 1769, at Providence, in New England: With some account of the use of those observations

Description:
  • By Benjamin West.
  • Dedicated to Stephen Hopkins.
  • Signatures: [A]⁴ ([A]1, [A]3 versos blank) B-C⁴ D²
Year:
1769
Contributor:
West, Benjamin, 1730-1813
Hopkins, Stephen, 1707-1785
Subject:
n-us-ri
Astronomy
Venus (Planet) > Transit > 1769
Imprint 1769.
United States > Rhode Island > Providence
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
Full Record

An Act authorizing the Town of Cumberland to exempt from taxation personal property and improvements

Description:
  • Pages [2,4] blank.
  • At head of title: State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. January session, A.D. 1892.
  • Lines of text are numbered.
  • Act provides …
Year:
1892
Contributor:
Rhode Island (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
n-us-ri
Taxation > Rhode Island > Cumberland (Town)
Cumberland (R.I. : Town) > Politics and government
United States > Rhode Island
Local ID:
HB1356 1892
Collection:
Brown University Library
Rider Broadsides
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An Act establishing martial law in this State

Description:
  • Printed area measures 11.1 x 15.1 cm.
  • At end of text: True copy--witness, Henry Bowen, sec'y.
  • Entered under title rather than author.
Year:
1842
Contributor:
Bowen, Henry, 1785-1867 (creator)
Rhode Island (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
n-us-ri
Dorr Rebellion, 1842 > Sources
Martial law > Rhode Island
Rhode Island > Politics and government > 1775-1865 > Sources
Rhode Island > History > 1775-1865 > Sources
Constitutional history > Rhode Island > Sources
Rhode Island.
United States > Rhode Island
Local ID:
RB1628 1842
Collection:
Brown University Library
Rider Broadsides
Full Record

An Act establishing martial law in this State

Description:
  • Printed area measures 11.1 x 15.1 cm.
  • At end of text: True copy--witness, Henry Bowen, sec'y.
  • Entered under title rather than author.
Year:
1842
Contributor:
Bowen, Henry, 1785-1867 (creator)
Rhode Island (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
n-us-ri
Dorr Rebellion, 1842 > Sources
Martial law > Rhode Island
Rhode Island > Politics and government > 1775-1865 > Sources
Rhode Island > History > 1775-1865 > Sources
Constitutional history > Rhode Island > Sources
Rhode Island.
United States > Rhode Island
Local ID:
RB53 1842
Collection:
Brown University Library
Rider Broadsides
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An Act for apportioning unto and upon the several towns in this Colony, the rate or tax lately ordered to be assessed and levied upon the inhabitants of said Colony

Description:
  • Page [4] blank.
  • Line of type ornaments at head of title; tailpiece on page [3] has anchor and motto Hope between vases of flowers with …
Year:
1761
Contributor:
Franklin, James, 1732?-1762 (printer)
Ward, Henry, 1732-1797 (inscriber)
Rhode Island (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
n-us-ri
Taxation > Rhode Island
Rhode Island > Politics and government > To 1775
Great Britain > Colonies > America > Economic policy
United States > Rhode Island > Newport
Local ID:
RB938
Collection:
Brown University Library
Brown Olio
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An Act for assessing upon the inhabitants of this Colony a rate or tax of six thousand pounds, lawful money, and ninety-three thousand six hundred and eighty-seven pounds fifteen shillings and two pence, old tenor

Description:
  • Page [4] blank; other pages numbered.
  • Royal arms of Great Britain at head of title; line of type ornaments on page 3 above last paragraph. …
Year:
1769
Contributor:
Southwick, Solomon, 1731-1797 (printer)
Ward, Henry, 1732-1797 (inscriber)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
n-us-ri
Taxation > Rhode Island
Rhode Island > Politics and government > To 1775
Great Britain > Colonies > America > Economic policy
United States > Rhode Island > Newport
Local ID:
RB944 1770
Collection:
Brown University Library
Rider Broadsides
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An Act for assessing upon the inhabitants of this Colony a rate or tax of twelve thousand pounds, lawful money; ten thousand pounds there of in the lawful money bills emitted in March and May, A.D. 1760

Description:
  • Page [4] blank; other pages numbered.
  • At head of title royal arms of Great Britain; at end of text on page 3 tailpiece of kneeling …
Year:
1764
Contributor:
Hall, Samuel, 1740-1807 (printer)
Ward, Henry, 1732-1797 (inscriber)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
n-us-ri
Taxation > Rhode Island
Wood-engraving, American > 18th century
Rhode Island > Politics and government > To 1775
Great Britain > Colonies > America > History > Sources
United States > Rhode Island > Newport
Local ID:
RB941 1764
Collection:
Brown University Library
Rider Broadsides
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An Act for assessing upon the inhabitants of this Colony a rate or tax of twelve thousand pounds, lawful money; ten thousand pounds there of in the lawful money bills emitted in March and May, A.D. 1760

Description:
  • Page [4] blank; other pages numbered.
  • At head of title royal arms of Great Britain; at end of text on page 3 tailpiece of kneeling …
Year:
1764
Contributor:
Hall, Samuel, 1740-1807 (printer)
Ward, Henry, 1732-1797 (inscriber)
Rhode Island (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
n-us-ri
Taxation > Rhode Island
Wood-engraving, American > 18th century
Rhode Island > Politics and government > To 1775
Great Britain > Colonies > America > History > Sources
United States > Rhode Island > Newport
Local ID:
RB943
Collection:
Brown University Library
Brown Olio
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