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1. A couple of Cochranites [graphic]
- Creator:
- Leech, John, 1817-1864
- Published / Created:
- [approximately March 1848]
- Call Number:
- 845.00.00.38
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., "Price 6 d"--Upper left corner., Date of publication, March or April 1248, based on the event depicted., and Three lines of dialogue below title: First juvenile. "I say Tommy, what do you think of this here jolly row?" Second Do. "Why I think we ought to down with the Harrystockracy, and pay no Hincome tax." First Do. "Oh! and have all the pastry cooks shops throw'd open to the people free, gratis, for nothink!!!"
- Publisher:
- Published at the Punch Office
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain. and Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- Poor, Employment, Taxation, Economic conditions, Boys, and Crowds
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A couple of Cochranites [graphic]
2. A descriptive sketch of the island of St. Helena : including its extent, climate, productions, population, government, means of defence, &c. &c.
- Published / Created:
- [1815]
- Call Number:
- File 64 Sa141 815+++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Abstract:
- A description of the island of Saint Helena, with twelve numbered points of interest keyed to the letterpress text below that appears on either side of the caption title. Below the title are two columns of text with detailed description of the topography, history, defenses, towns, roads, weather, vegetation, animals (native and those breed by the English), fishing, naval traffic, population (white and black), its governance and relationship to the East India Company and its use by the British navy
- Description:
- Caption title., Engraved view "Saint Helena from the roads" at head, with imprint "Published Augt. 1815 by J. and E. Wallis ...", First line: This island is situated in 15 deg. 55 min. south latitude, and 5 deg. 49 min. west longitude, from Greenwich., and Imperfect; sheet cut into two, with engraved view mounted above letterpress text. For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- Printed for J. and E. Wallis, 42, Skinner-Street, Snow-Hill; and J. Wallis, Jun., Marine Library, Sidmouth
- Subject (Geographic):
- Saint Helena
- Subject (Topic):
- Description and travel and Economic conditions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A descriptive sketch of the island of St. Helena : including its extent, climate, productions, population, government, means of defence, &c. &c.
3. Account book
- Creator:
- Bacon, Nathaniel, 1547-1622
- Published / Created:
- 1576-1579/80.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 195
- Image Count:
- 87
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper tablet of Account book, being a record of Stiffkey mill belonging to Nathaniel Bacon (1546?-1622) for the time period 8 December 1576-1579/80. Contains weekly statements of George Brigges, John Wilson, Thomas Shorten, William Fether, Robert Merkyn, and Henry Corye
- Description:
- In English., Watermarks: unidentified pot., Script: Written by several individuals in informal cursive scripts., Most folios are wrinkled, torn; some have been mended., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Half green goatskin with green cloth sides, gold- and blind-tooled. Leaves of a didactic theological text (Germany, ca. 1250) bound at beginning and end; probably a bifolium. Parchment; 291 x 196 (220 x 155) mm. Written above top line in a small gothic bookhand. Initials in red or green with penwork designs of the other color. Stained, but with little loss of text.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Bacon, Nathaniel, 1547-1622.
- Subject (Topic):
- Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, and Economic conditions
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Account book
4. Contract with Andrew C. Barnett to move enslaved people and property to Louisiana, 1839
- Creator:
- Smith, William, 1762-1840
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-3197 Sm684
- Container / Volume:
- (File)
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript contract, signed, in the hand of William Smith, between Smith and Andrew C. Barnett, for relocation of one hundred sixty enslaved African American plantation workers and farming property owned by Smith from his plantations in Alabama to his plantations in Louisiana
- Description:
- William Smith (1762-1840), plantation owner and member of the Alabama House of Representatives, 1836-1840. and In English.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Alabama., Louisiana., Louisiana, and United States
- Subject (Name):
- Barnett, Andrew C. and Smith, William, 1762-1840.
- Subject (Topic):
- African Americans, Farmers, Slavery, History, Economic conditions, Social life and customs, and Politics and government
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Contract with Andrew C. Barnett to move enslaved people and property to Louisiana, 1839
5. Fribourg & Treyer daybook : manuscript
- Creator:
- Fribourg & Treyer (Firm)
- Published / Created:
- 1798 June 1-1803 June 27.
- Call Number:
- Osborn fc215
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 995
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Manuscript daybook in unidentified hands, recording daily sales of snuff, cigars, and other products by Fribourg & Treyer. Entries list customer names and addresses; varieties and prices of snuff and cigars, with amounts purchased by weight or container; destinations and transportation costs for orders sent by coach or river boat; and notes indicating payments received or entry into accounts. Notes on preliminary pages include names and accounts relating to suppliers and employees. Over 10,000 sales are listed, including entries for Queen Charlotte, George IV, as Prince of Wales, Beau Brummell, Charles Stanhope, Earl of Harrington, and others in their social circle
- Description:
- Fribourg & Treyer, 34 Haymarket, London, manufactured and sold snuff, cigars, and other tobacco products, 1720-1981. From 1780 to 1803, Fribourg & Treyer was owned by G. A. (Gottlieb Augustus) Treyer and Martha Evans Treyer., In English., and Binding: full sheep, with blind-tooled border; spine broken.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, London., London, and London (England)
- Subject (Name):
- Brummell, Beau, 1778-1840., Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830., Harrington, Charles Stanhope, Earl of, 1780-1851., Treyer, G. A. (Gottlieb Augustus), Treyer, Martha Evans., and Fribourg & Treyer (Firm)
- Subject (Topic):
- Cigar industry, Snuff, Tobacco industry, Tobacco use, Tobacco workers, Upper class, Social life and customs, and Economic conditions
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Fribourg & Treyer daybook : manuscript
6. Long faces at Smithfield. Peace, long faces at the Corn-Exchange [graphic]
- Creator:
- Roberts, Piercy, active 1791-1805, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1802]
- Call Number:
- 802.00.00.34+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- British merchants and farmers congrete in two groups weeping and sad-faced, bemoan the loss of the high profits that they enjoyed for their domestic produce during the Revolutionary Wars
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Date of publication based on reference to the Treaty of Amiens of 1802., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark in center of sheet: fleur-de-lis.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by P. Roberts, 28 Middle-Row, Holborn
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and Great Britain.
- Subject (Topic):
- Economic conditions, Prices, Farmers, and Merchants
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Long faces at Smithfield. Peace, long faces at the Corn-Exchange [graphic]
7. Queries, Lascars and Chinese : manuscript
- Published / Created:
- 1814.
- Call Number:
- LWL Mss Vol. 275
- Image Count:
- 13
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- A manuscript in a single hand, signed by the clerks and witnesses, providing a record of the answers to fifteen questions, prompted by an 1814 parliamentary investigation into the living conditions of ‘Lascars and Chinese’ which ended with the publication of a report from a Committee on Lascars and Other Asiatic Seamen in 1816. As part of their investigation, the clerk Isaac Newton records the answers of 'Boodoo' and 'Mamood', both of whom attest to the statements with their marks of an 'x', which provide very detailed evidence of the living conditions, the kind and amount of food and drink provided, clothing and health care and the physical safety in cramped living quarters, the way in which these sailors were buried
- Description:
- In English., Title from item., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Geographic):
- China., India., and London (England)
- Subject (Name):
- East India Company
- Subject (Topic):
- Employees, Merchant mariners, Economic conditions, and Social conditions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Queries, Lascars and Chinese : manuscript
8. Sailing to the house, wind full north [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [10 April 1782]
- Call Number:
- 782.04.10.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Lord North, carrying a large sack labelled "budget, small beer, soap, tobacco, insurance, carriages, tea", references to his proposed taxes of 1782. The Devil stands behind helping support the sack, as North approaches an open window at which a fox (Charles James Fox) is standing
- Description:
- Title from item., Attributed to Colley in the British Museum catalogue., and Mounted to 30 x 37 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. April 10th, 1782 by W. Humphrey No. 227 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and England
- Subject (Name):
- North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792. and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806.
- Subject (Topic):
- Politics and government, Economic conditions, Lifting & carrying, Devil, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Sailing to the house, wind full north [graphic].
9. The alchemist or, "The magic of patience!" [graphic]
- Creator:
- Swain, 19th century, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- November 22, 1879.
- Call Number:
- Print00622
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title and date from item., Published in Punch, or the London Charivari, 22 November 1879., Bradbury & Evans were publishers of Punch at the time, and were located in London., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
- Publisher:
- Bradbury & Evans
- Subject (Name):
- Disraeli, Benjamin, 1804-1881 and St. Cyres, Stafford Harry Northcote, Viscount, 1869-1926
- Subject (Topic):
- Great Britain, Politics and government, Economic conditions, Alchemy, Politicians, Chemicals, and Bellows
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > The alchemist or, "The magic of patience!" [graphic]
