Broadsheet. Metamorphic card advertising Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient, a laxative. When folded shows colored illustration of frowning girl above first poem; when unfolded the smiling girl holds a package of medicine above second poem. On verso advertisement headed: What is headache? Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Title from first line. Poem printed in calligraphy. At left of text reproduction of photograph of fence and open gate. At end of text: Dr. and Mrs. Eugene E. Murphey. Dec. 25th, 1937. Suggested place of publication because another Christmas card from the Murpheys acquired with the Brown University copy bears the address "Augusta, Georgia."
Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by single line. At end of first column: Reprinted for T. A. jun. 1806. At end of second column: J. C. Author's full name not printed on item. Poem originally published in a broadside under this title dated by Wegelin ca. 1714 (Wegelin 95) Variant of Sabin 17092 and Shaw & Shoemaker 10215 which is entitled Poem occasioned by the death of Jno. Alden of Duxborough, who died Sept. 12, 1687 and was published in Portsmouth, N.H. where Timothy Alden was minister and school-teacher. Although Shaw & Shoemaker 10215 lists broadside under same title as Sabin 17092, the broadside reproduced in Early American imprints, second series, no. 10215 shows same broadside and title as described in this record. First line: The staff of bread, and water eke the stay.
Colophon and imprint information beginning "First reproduction of this drawing-poem.." Tagged also as seven piece set "Picture poems by Kenneth Patchen ...Series R...".
Title from first line.
Title from first line.
At head of title: border of type ornaments (See Reilly 593). At end of text: October 8th, 1700.
Motto at head of text.
By Mrs. Julia P. Ballard. At head of title cut of Indian carrying child across stream. Caption title. In upper right corner of page [1]: No. 105. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
By Mrs. Julia P. Ballard. At head of title cut of Indian carrying child across stream. Caption title. In upper right corner of page [1]: No. 105. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
By Mrs. Julia P. Ballard. At head of title cut of Indian carrying child across stream. Caption title. In upper right corner of page [1]: No. 105. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
French-fold; printed on double page. Printed in red and green on heavy white paper. On page [1] illustration of Santa Claus on roof; on page [2] cut of Benjamin Hanby's home; on page [4] illustration of children singing and music and words to song. Cover title. "In 1864, Benjamin Hanby composed the beloved children's Christmas song, "Up on the Housetop." On this, its 100th anniversary, his Alma Mater, Otterbein College, commemorates Ben Hanby's contribution to the children of the world."
Title from first line.
song by B. Myers, the Pilot. Text of song with chorus in three numbered stanzas printed within ornamental border. Possible range of dates suggested by internal evidence.
Printed in red on recto, black on verso on heavy yellow paper in postcard format. Title from first line. Two-line poem. On verso: A Burning Deck postcard. Message by Rick Patrick. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.
At center of page [1] oval portrait of Longfellow. Order of exercises and poem.
French fold; printed on double leaves.
James Humphrey.
Pages [2] and [4] blank. Printed in red on buff paper with brown decorated initial; vine ornamentation on p. [1, 3] Type-signed at end of poem: Walt Whitman (1891)
Broadsheet printed on heavy blue-gray paper in black on recto, blue on verso; information about publisher on verso. Title from first line of poem. Typesigned at end of poem: Michael Basinski.
Royal Murdoch. Title from first line. At head of text: Christmas Greetings: 1952. White paper printed in green.
Broadsheet folded to create [8] pages. Includes drawings of seated man, standing woman, and couple, and portrait of seated man captioned: Richard Golden, as "Old Jed Prouty." Advertisement for Johnson's Anodyne Liniment, for internal and external use, contains poetry and prose. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
by William T. Perkins. Printed in two columns divided by double line of type ornaments within outer and inner borders of type ornaments. Between outer and inner borders at top Civil War battle scene signed: C.H. Dickson '15; at left scenes of Civil War soldiers and women; between columns vignette of tombstones. Poem in five stanzas of varying length.
Pages [2]-[4] blank. Notecard printed in dark red on heavy peach paper. At each upper corner on page [1]: U S. Poem in ten two-line stanzas. In lower margin on page [1]: Ruth Landshoff Yorck / 21 Cornelia Street / NYC 14. Suggested publication date from "Happy 66" from author's autographed note on Brown University copy.
Contains program with text of 5 songs.
