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1.
The English & American discovery Brother, brother we are both in the wrong. [graphic]

Published / Created:
[5 November 1778]
Call Number:
778.11.05.01
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Oval design depicts an Englishman in tricorne on left and American with broad-brimmed flat hat on right seated at a round table smoking pipes. On the table near the Englishman is the London Gazette and Morning Post, while near the American a paper ma...
Alternative Title:
English and American discovery
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pub. Nov. 5 1778 by MDarly
Subject (Geographic):
United States
Subject (Topic):
History, Furniture, Smoking, Hats, Tobacco pipes, and Clothing & dress
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The English & American discovery Brother, brother we are both in the wrong. [graphic]

2.
To the public: Whereas many persons, labouring under the most grievous oppressions, from their

Creator:
Bristowe, Thomas
Published / Created:
[1778]
Call Number:
File 63 778 B86
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
A broadside printing of an 18th century scam, exploiting the helplessness of English debtors before the law. And especially the perennial animus towards the legal profession--"the chicanery of petty-fogging (would-be) attornies, the shameful plunder a...
Description:
Title from first line of text.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Bankruptcy and Fraud
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > To the public: Whereas many persons, labouring under the most grievous oppressions, from their defenceless situation are constrained to silence, and a quiet submission to all the atrocious robberies which are daily committed by the infamous appendages to the law ... apply to Mr. Thomas Bristowe, Cavendish-Bridge, Leicestershire

3.
[A picturesque view of the state of the nation] [graphic].

Published / Created:
[ca. 1778]
Call Number:
778.00.00.49
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A cow representing the commerce of Great Britain stands passively on the sea-shore while an American with a feathered cap saws off her horns; one horn lies on the ground. A Dutchman milks the cow ... France, a foppishly-dressed Frenchman, and Spain, ...
Description:
Title and date from British Museum catalogue no. 5472.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
United States, Great Britain., Great Britain, and America.
Subject (Name):
Howe, Richard Howe, Earl, 1726-1799. and Howe, William Howe, Viscount, 1729-1814.
Subject (Topic):
History, Foreign public opinion, Commerce, Colonies, National characteristics, French, National characteristics, Spanish, National characteristics, Dutch, Milking, Cows, Lions, and Sleeping
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [A picturesque view of the state of the nation] [graphic].