These furnaces belch sulphur, vapour, smoke and steam. Now, there are furnaces – mostly likely iron furnaces - all along the river as far as the coast. He remembers when there were green fields on both sides of the Tyne. The song is written by someone that claims to be, or have been, a skipper on the Tyne. This undated song was probably written in the early-mid 1830s and describes the development of Newcastle, particularly along the river but, at the same time, it comments on people’s lives. The Changes on the Tyne c.1830, Broadsides 4/1/45, Broadsides, Newcastle University Archives, GB 186 This exhibition features a very small selection of broadsides that relate directly to Newcastle upon Tyne. We have, however, catalogued and digitised almost 900 broadsides, making the original documents and digital surrogates available to researchers through the Reading Room and CollectionsCaptured. They can contribute to our knowledge of life in the town as it was experienced by its residents. They were displayed in public areas, read by town criers, performed by ballad singers and read communally. Broadsides cover a wide range of topics: they might take the form of ballads advertisements public notices and perform several functions from celebrating sporting heroes to disseminating information about an outbreak of cholera. They are survivals of cheap popular print: rare because they were ephemeral. This history of Newcastle is widely known and easy to research but it says very little about the people that lived here.īroadsides offer a different perspective of life in Newcastle. Broadsides came in different sizes but were typically printed on low-quality paper, on one side only and were characterised by inconsistent typography and print quality. Its rail connections were expanded in the 1830s and 1840s. Its population grew rapidly, and its boundaries expanded to incorporate Jesmond, Heaton, Byker, Westgate and Elswick. Its town centre was redeveloped 1825-1840 by the triumvirate of Richard Grainger, John Dobson and John Clayton. (Western Americana was a particular interest of Reese, whose first book, published while he was a student, was a bibliographic study of the early cattle industry.Newcastle upon Tyne, with its significant coal, rail and ship-building industries, contributed enormously to the prosperity and power of Britain during the Nineteenth Century. Wall’s portfolio of engravings of the Hudson River from the 1820s ($180,000 to $250,000) and a group of 1877 chromolithographs of California grape varietals by Hannah Millard ($80,000 to $120,000).
The collection includes some of the earliest color-plate books printed in the United States, as well as rarities from the technology’s 19th-century flowering. “It was incredible, like El Dorado,” Geiger said. But not many were invited to visit the private library in his colonial house near the Yale campus. Reese’s shop in two adjoining brownstones in New Haven, which held more than 18,000 items (with thousands more in storage), was an obligatory stop for any serious collector. (It was one of the rare times he underpriced something, a curator later quipped.) He bought it for $800, then arranged to sell it - at the time, one of three or four Aztec manuscripts from the period known to survive - to Yale’s Beinecke Library for a price equal to the remainder of his tuition.
His sophomore year, he discovered a 16th-century Indigenous map of the Valley of Mexico at a furniture sale in Detroit.
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