Photograph albums of the United States Revenue-Cutter Service in Alaska and Siberia
Image Count:
142
Abstract:
Photograph albums of images created by Alfred L. Broadbent of landscapes, wildlife, ships, and individuals primarily in Alaska and Siberia, ca. 1885-1892, and probably printed by the photograph gallery of Isaiah West Taber, San Francisco, California.
Description:
Manuscript captions on individual photographs.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska, British Columbia, Chernofsky Harbor (Alaska), Juan de Fuca, Strait of (B.C. and Wash.), Seattle (Wash.), Siberia (Russia), Sitka (Alaska), and Washintgon (State)
Subject (Topic):
Aleuts, Arctic peoples, Children, Dwellings, Eskimos, Glaciers, Indians of North America, Landscape photography, Salmon canning industry, Sealing, Ships, Totem poles, and Whaling
Title and place of publication from item., Date from copy in Bibliothèque nationale de France, website viewed 3/22/2023: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b90138505.item#, and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Affiches Artistiques Lemercier St r. de Seine, Paris and Imprimeries Lemercier
Subject (Topic):
Convulsions in children, Patent medicines, Children, and Putti
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of poems, including numerous occasional verses addressed to friends, family members, and their children. Titles include "Ode to the Ship, in which Mr. F J. H. Wollaston sails," "A Lilliputian Ode, on my little Friend, Richard Burney, putting on Breeches," "Buxom Het, an excellent new song to an old Tune: a Soldier & a Sailor, a Tinker & a Tailor, etc., made on Mrs. Esther Burney," and "Occasional Prologue to the Good Natured Man, a Comedy; when acted by Ladies and Gentlemen for their diversion."
Description:
Incomplete index in back of manuscript., Laid in: poem, in same hand, titled "To my little friend Charles Wollaston, on his being put into Breeches.", and Binding: boards, vellum spine.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Burney, Charles, 1757-1817., Burney family., Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774., and Wollaston, Francis John Hyde, 1762-1823.
Subject (Topic):
Children, Drama, English literature, English poetry, Occasional verse, and Social life and customs
An older man, representing Rev. Madan, is attacked by two women, one of them pulling on his coat and indicating a crying boy standing next to her, the other grasping his wig with her left hand and ready to strike him with a small stool she is holding in her right. Her right foot is propped on a volume entitled "Thelyphthora," his treatise advocating polygamy. Behind her, a third woman is picking his pocket. On the left two women are engaged in a fight; on the right a couple is kissing behind a screen on which is displayed an image of a duel, above it is an image of a prisoner in chains and next to it a body hanging from the gibbet
Alternative Title:
Polygamy displayed and Doctor Madman restored to his senses
Description:
Title from item. and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd 1st Decr. 1780 by the author
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Madan, Martin, 1726-1790.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Polygamy, Fighting, Children, Couples, and Clothing & dress
Poor Robin's dream commonly called poor charity to a compleat tune well known by musicions and may others call'd A game of cards
Description:
Date of publication from ESTC., Verse begins: "How now my good fellow, why now all alone?"., In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two and a third woodcut above the third and fourth columns; rules separate the first and second and also the third and fourth columns., Above the last woodcut: The second part., Third woodcut signed: Sculp J.W., Mounted on leaf 22. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
Publisher:
Printed in this preasent year
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Popish Plot, 1678, War, Dreams, Ballads, English, Economics, Depressions, Scythes, Toys, Peg legs, Hourglasses, and Children
