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[Collection of nineteenth-century English broadside ballads], [1840-1860]
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[Collection of 17th century English newspapers]
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Contemporary collection of approximately 140 works, including issues of five different London newspapers, votes of the Commons, petitions to the King and manuscript newsletters. Includes 59 issues of the Flying Post, 37 issues of the Post Boy, 19 issues and 1 supplement of the London Gazette, 4 issues of the Post Man, and 9 issues of Dawks's News-Letter. It also includes 7 votes of the House of Commons and 4 Humble addresses to the King. And there are 3 manuscript news letters. The contents are dated between 16 March 1695/6 and 21 April 1698 and are arranged consecutively by date (with occasional misplacements probably due to Lady Day dating).
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Nineteenth century
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The 19th-century series consists of around 13,350 scores dated between 1794 and 1900. The collection represents various styles of popular American music, including pieces dedicated to entertainment, industry and professions, the military, people and culture, travel, politics, science, sports and leisure, transportation, and miscellaneous songs. It also includes a small number of scores published in Britain and Europe. While a substantial portion of the scores are intact, many are missing cover pages. In some cases, only the cover page is available. Among those with cover pages, a considerable number are ornately lithographed. Some are autographed or are stamped with the seller's mark. The scores feature lyrical or instrumental compositions, primarily in cake walks, galops, marches, mazurkas, polkas, schottisches, two-steps, quadrilles, redowas, and waltzes, and in some instances, there are multiple editions. Throughout the collection users will find notable creators, engravers, performers, printers, publishers, and productions associated with the scores. Please note that this collection contains historical images and language that library users may find harmful, offensive, or inappropriate.
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Travel to Canada and the United States via the beautiful sheltered St. Lawrence Route
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"Canadian Pacific"--printed at the top in bold script, red on the grey background. "Norman Wilkinson"--artist's signature reproduced in the lower left corner of the image. "Empress of Scotland, 26,000 gross tons"--printed below the image to the right, block type in white on grey background. "Printed in Great Britain by Nissen & Arnold Ltd., 11-12 Bury street, London, E.C.3"--small type, lower right corner, along the margin. "1951"--on verso, in ms., in pencil, lower right corner. The Empress of Scotland was the second Candian Pacific vessel with this name; originally she was named the Empress of Japan, but was renamed Empress of Scotland in 1942 following the attack on Pearl Harbor; returned to CP in 1948 and refurbished; sold by CP to Hamburg-Atlantic Line in 1958 and renamed Hanseatic. Focus of item: Empress of Scotland.
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[Collection of Gaelic League (Ireland) publications]
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Collection of various publications of the Gaelic League (Ireland) bound in a volume. Includes Reports for the years 1894, 1896, 1897, 1898 and 1899-1900; a selection of the Gaelic League pamphlet series, nos. 1, 3, 5, 6, 8--22; Gaelic League leaflets, no.1; Aesop's Fables in Irish with English Translation, pt.1; a bilingual edition of The Pastorial letter of the archbishops and bishops assembled in National Synod at Maynooth, 1900; Songs and Ballads of '98 / collected and arranged, with notes by Denis Devereaux and various Gaelic language texts.
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Broadsides by Jonathan Swift and others
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This bound volume contains 79 manuscript and printed broadsides chiefly from the 1720s and 1730s with satirical, humorous, and political ballads, poems, and prose by various Anglo-Irish writers, dramatists, and clerics including Jonathan Swift (1667-1745). Some of the unattributed manuscript poems and annotations are purported to be by Swift. The volume includes sixteen handwritten items and sixty-three printed texts. The printed items were primarily printed in Dublin, Ireland, with six printed by Dublin printers John Harding and Sarah Harding. The items are numbered and separated into two parts, each preceded by a contemporary handwritten table of contents. The volume has previously been referred to in print as the Dublin Broadsides. It is bound in a leather binding with the spine title "Broadsides by Swift and others : ms. and printed."
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Jay T. Last Collection of Entertainment: Theatrical Broadsides and Playbills
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This collection contains approximately 1,000 printed 19th and early 20th century entertainment broadsides, playbills, and related advertisements, and forms a subset within the Jay T. Last Collection of Entertainment. These items advertise theatrical performances including plays, variety entertainment such as minstrel, burlesque, and vaudeville shows, and optical displays such as dioramas, living statues, and tableaus. Over 250 theaters primarily from the Northeastern United States are represented in the collection, though there are also materials from theaters in the Midwestern, Southern, and Western United States, and approximately 26 items from Canada, Ireland, England, and Scotland. Theaters with the largest subsets include the Boston Museum (Boston, Massachusetts) with 120 items, Liberty Hall (New Bedford, Massachusetts) with 96 items, Theatre Comique (New York, New York) with 66 items, and the Troy Museum (Troy, New York) with 47 items. The materials date from 1809 to 1923, with the bulk of the items spanning between 1840 and 1890. The earliest dated item in the collection is an August 1809 playbill from the Lyceum Theatre in London, England; the most recent item is a March 1923 broadside for the Hyperion Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut. Almost all of the items are in English except for an Italian bill for the Teatro Italiano (New York, New York) and a Spanish bill for the Gutierrez Show; there is also one bill for the Heywood Bros. Combination that has both English and German text. The materials range in size from approximately 9 ½ x 6 inches to 42 ½ x 14 inches and consist of single-sheet unfolded advertisements for theatrical productions that were intended to be distributed by hand, posted on walls, fences, or in windows, or sold to playgoers entering the theater. The printed text typically includes the name of the theater and lists information about the play or entertainment, names of performers, acts or scenes, dates and times of performances, and admission prices. Often the text publicized multiple performances over the course of a day or a few days. Among the names given to these types of advertisements, according to their size and mode of distribution, are broadsides, dodgers, handbills, hangers, playbills, posters, and show bills. The notices in this collection are primarily long, narrow broadsides printed on one side of newsprint paper in black ink using letterpress type of varying fonts and size, though some have colored ink, colored paper, or woodcut illustrations. More than 100 bills have illustrations, often consisting of head-and-shoulder portraits of show proprietors or performers, depictions of performances by minstrel blackface entertainers and musicians, or scenes from plays or variety show acts. The items are grouped by theater and arranged in folders according to the geographic location of the theater, with the largest number coming from theaters in the Northeast United States. The states and foreign countries with theaters represented in the collection consist of: Northeast (805 items): Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island Midwest (62 items): Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin South (61 items): Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. West (6 items): California and Colorado Foreign (26 items): Canada, Ireland, England, Scotland There are also approximately thirty playbills focused on specific performers or shows without theater information, as well as two playbills for unidentified locations. Among the most commonly credited printers in the collection are Metropolitan Job Printing (New York, New York); Richardson & Foos (New York, New York); Cameron & Co. (New York, New York); C.L. Mac Arthur (Troy, New York); F.A. Searle (Boston, Massachusetts); Hooton's Press (Boston, Massachusetts); and the Van Benthuysen Printing House (Albany, New York). The contents list below contains a brief entry for each item in the collection. All entries include the theater name and date if known; some entries also include additional notes that typically indicate the presence of illustrations or minstrel troupes featured in the text.
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