1883 1897 Bawdy Ledger Book With Broadsides
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- Title
- 1883 1897 Bawdy Ledger Book With Broadsides
- Publication year listed
- 1898
- Format
- Public domain eBook
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- Free online reader; no registration required
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About this book
1883 1897 Bawdy Ledger Book With Broadsides
Author: Unknown
Year: 1898
There are approximately 35 bawdy broadsides in this ledger/scrapbook with two-thirds song related. The rest consist of doggerel poems, bawdy jokes & stories (see photos below). Using the dates found in the ledger itself, the broadsides date from ~1883-97. It was acquired via an intermediary, so I was not able to ask questions directly of the seller. Reportedly the ledger book was found in the attic of an 1880's house during renovations in a town in upstate NY near the Erie Canal. This scrapbook starts off as a regular ledger book for the first 10 pages with dates from the late 1870's through 1883. After this, there are blank pages then the bawdy broadsides & manuscript entries begin. There are at least two examples of a handwritten bawdy poem/song and then a later printed broadside example of the same poem/song. After 35 pages of manuscript & broadsides the broadsides peter-out and it continues as just a ledger book with dates of 1898-1907. There is water damage to the entire ledgerbook with different varieties of black, green & pink mold on nearly every page with the worst of it in the last few pages. There are two broadsides that are currently illegible and they will need to be r
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