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[Collection of nineteenth-century English broadside ballads], [1840-1860]

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Description: 15 ballads on 12 broadsides (1 mounted), most with engraved head-pieces or minor illustrations. Without the music. Chiefly English, but includes some Scottish and American ballads. The majority are printed in London, with two printed in Newcastle and Birmingham, respectively. The ballads appear to range in date from the early 1800s to the 1850s. Those which reference specific events: Queen Victoria's 1840 wedding to Prince Albert, referenced in no.10; political references to the Corn Laws (no.3), Derby and Disraeli's tax legislation (no.4), and the state visit of Emperor Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie in 1855 (no.5) date most of the material to the 1840s-1850s. Includes social topics such as cuckoldry, death and crime. The blackface minstrelsy tradition is also represented (no.3 and 11).
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1800?-1860?]
Call number: 430486

[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).

480370

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A group of ten small photographs related to China and Japan that were issued as cigarette cards inside packets of Ogden's Guinea Gold cigarettes. Images depict: a group of Chinese Boxers; "Lin Ta Jen," a supporter of the Boxers; Chinese Christians; "A Mandarin and his family"; the Taku Forts in China; the Empress Dowager Cixi; Mutsuhito, Emperor of Japan; and the British Navy in Hong Kong harbor. The cards have printed captions.

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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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[Collection of nineteenth-century English broadside ballads], [1840-1860]

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