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Psalm 78 (First line: Let children learn the mighty deed) / [Isaac] Watts Hymn for the 22d of December (First line: Hail, Pilgrim Fathers of our race); tune, "Old hundred" Ode for the 22d of December; composed for the Anniversary Festival at Plymouth, in the year 1793 (First line: Sons of renowned Sires. Printed area: 23 x 13.1 cm. Three songs used at the celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth. Printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line; double rules beneath title.

Printed area: 14 x 17.3 cm. Poetry, printed in two columns in ten numbered stanzas. Illustration at head of text contains Masonic emblems. Not in Checklist Amer. imprints, 1830-1839. Imprint information from Howe bibliography in Proc. Amer. Antiquarian Society, n.s. 60 (1950), p. 217-233. Solomon Howe, printer, son of Baptist minister and author Solomon Howe (1750-1835) printed with his brother John (1783-1845) in Greenwich and Enfield, Mass.; Solomon printed some broadsides with his own imprint in the 1830s. The town of Enfield was separated from Greenwich, Mass. and incorporated in 1816.

Printed area measures 22.2 x 15.7 cm. Includes texts of hymns by Rev. J.T. Sargent. Text in two columns. Not in Checklist Amer. imprints.

Includes texts of hymn (First line: On this stone, now laid with prayer), inscription, and dedication. Not in Checklist Amer. imprints.

Printed area, including decorative border, measures 26.3 x 12.3 cm. The Daily evening transcript (Boston, Mass.) for Apr. 16, 1849, vol. XX, no. 5746, contains a report on the event. Program includes: "Address by the Indian Kah-ge-gah-bowh [i.e. George Copway], on the best mode of Educating and Christianizing the North American Indians." Includes the "Missionary Hymn in the Ojibwa language.", Athenaeum copy originally tipped-in: Copway, George. The life, history, and travels, of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh (George Copway). 6th ed. Philadelphia : James Harmstead, no. 40 N. Fourth St., 1847. (Item removed 5/26/11 and cataloged separately. Cf. Rare E 99 .C6 C66 1847b)

Printed area, including ill., measures 19.9 x 7.5 cm. Caption title. Illustrated with a wood engraving of a ship. The Boston directory lists the Seamen's Chapel at the Ann Street location for the years 1845 to 1851.

Includes an account of Chapman's life, a tribute to her membership in the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society by Lydia Maria Child, and a poem in memory of Chapman by Anne Warren Weston.

Caption title. Bulfinch was ordained in 1831. Within border of type ornaments.

Hymn with five stanzas within decorative border roll. "Note" at foot: This hymn is sung every Sunday evening at 8 1/2 o'clock ... Printed in blue.

Title in English; hymn in Choctaw., Printed area measures 18.8 x 10.4 cm. Caption title. Place of publication from Gilcrease-Hargrett imprints. Without music.

Text of A might fortress is our God, printed in three stanzas., Printed area, including mourning border, measures 18.4 x 10.3 cm. Without music. Sumner's funeral was held at King's Chapel, Boston Massachusetts.

Title from caption. Order of exercieses, includes "Hymn, by George Russell, Esq. to be sung by the Handel and Hayden Society" with first line: Eternal! Uncreated God!, and "Ode, by James Russel Lowell, Esq., to be sung by the school children" with first line: My name is water : I have sped. The celebration was in honor of the introduction of Cochituate water into Boston.

Printed area, including decorative border, measures 22.9 x 12.7 cm. Text printed in two columns, separated by a dotted line.

Printed area, including mourning borders, measures 17.8 x 9.8 cm.

Printed area measures: 16.0 x 10.2 cm. Within double line border.