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"early printing"

Aug 12, 2016
  • Broadsides
  • early printing
  • providence
  • woodcuts

World Elephant Day

Today is World Elephant Day! To celebrate and honor these amazing animals, we decided to re-post a piece written about … Continue reading World Elephant Day

Jul 3, 2014
  • American Revolutionary War
  • Broadsides
  • Declaration of Independence
  • early printing
  • Fourth of July
  • john brown house museum
  • Solomon Southwick

Object Thursday: The Declaration of Independence

The Declaration of Independence is classified as a “broadside.” Broadsides are generally printed on one side of a sheet of … Continue reading Object Thursday: The Declaration of Independence

Dec 26, 2013
  • 19th century
  • bandbox
  • bandboxes
  • early printing
  • Object Thursday
  • printing
  • providence
  • rhode island

Object Thursday: A Band Box for Boxing Day

Elsewhere in the world, it’s Boxing Day, the uniquely British Commonwealth holiday when servants and working people received Christmas boxes … Continue reading Object Thursday: A Band Box for Boxing Day

Sep 26, 2013
  • 18th century
  • Art of the Book
  • Children's Books
  • early printing
  • ephemera
  • Henry Marchant
  • Hugh Hale Brown
  • John Carter
  • Juvenile Literature
  • Printing History
  • rihs library

Object Thursday: Little Benjamin, or, Confess your Faults

Little eyes and little hands needed books too. The Rhode Island Historical Society holds a lovely collection of children’s books … Continue reading Object Thursday: Little Benjamin, or, Confess your Faults

Jul 25, 2013
  • early printing
  • Governors of Rhode Island
  • James Franklin
  • Joseph Jencks (1656-1740)
  • Printing History
  • Smallpox

Object Thursday: Keeping Smallpox Out of R.I., 1729.

The well-documented smallpox epidemic in Boston in 1721, with its ensuing inoculation controversy, was by no means the end of … Continue reading Object Thursday: Keeping Smallpox Out of R.I., 1729.

Jun 25, 2012
  • Colonial Rhode Island
  • Disarmament
  • early printing
  • Exhibitions
  • Military draft
  • Peace

The Pursuit of Peace in Rhode Island

As Tolstoy knew, war and peace go hand in hand so it’s appropriate to the 2012 RIHS theme of Rhode … Continue reading The Pursuit of Peace in Rhode Island

Oct 22, 2010
  • Broadsides
  • early printing
  • ephemera
  • images
  • John Carter
  • providence
  • woodcuts

The Elephant

Unfortunately, this post just missed Elephant Appreciation Day, but better late than never. “The Elephant”* is a broadside advertising the … Continue reading The Elephant

Feb 17, 2010
  • American Revolutionary War
  • Broadsides
  • cataloging
  • early printing
  • ephemera

Talk of the Town, 18th Century-Style

Thanks to the generous support from the following organizations: Rhode Island Society of the Sons of the Revolution Rhode Island … Continue reading Talk of the Town, 18th Century-Style

Apr 17, 2009
  • bookplates
  • Colonial Rhode Island
  • debtors' prisons
  • early printing
  • James Franklin
  • provenance

An Impartial Hand

In a recent New Yorker article on the history of debtor imprisonment*, Jill Lepore briefly mentions a 1754 Rhode Island … Continue reading An Impartial Hand

Feb 26, 2009
  • Colonial Rhode Island
  • early printing
  • James Franklin
  • typography

The Ardent Desire

Picking up on the discussion of broadsides in a previous post, today we’ll highlight another broadside from the collection: The … Continue reading The Ardent Desire

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