Harris Broadsides

Broadsides are single-sheet publications, often issued as ephemera or announcements. The Harris Broadsides Collection is a comprehensive collection of American poetry published in broadside format from colonial times to the present. The collection offers materials covering a broad spectrum of American life, and includes poetry of every description: 18th and 19th century ballads, verse describing newsworthy events, poetic effusions of sentimentality and patriotism, comic verse, and much more. When completed, this digital project will include over 20,000 titles.
This collection is part of Brown University Library, hosted by Brown University.

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The new America

The new America

Brown University

Tune: All Saints New. Within border of type ornaments. At head of text: Dedicated to the Memory of Abraham Lincoln.

The new America

The new America

Brown University

At head of text: Composed for the Convention of the N.W.S.A., held at Washington, D.C., Jan. 23, 24 and 25, 1883.

The negro in it

The negro in it

Brown University

At end of text: Author, Mrs. Lena Mason. Poem praises J.B. Parker, who seized assassin of President McKinley in 1901.

The Nave Gallery: Sound vision

Printed in colors on heavy glossy white paper in postcard format; text on verso in black. On recto colored collage by Michael Basinski. Title from first words on recto. On verso information about SoundVision/VisionSound III, an international exhibition of "verbo-visual artwork & performance" July 7-Aug. 6, 2005 at the Nave Gallery.

The Nave Gallery: Sound vision

Printed in colors on heavy glossy white paper in postcard format; text on verso in black. On recto colored collage by Michael Basinski. Title from first words on recto. On verso information about SoundVision/VisionSound III, an international exhibition of "verbo-visual artwork & performance" July 7-Aug. 6, 2005 at the Nave Gallery.

The Nativity: a dramatic canticle

Words by Dr. J.C. Palmer, U.S.N. ; music by James D. Dana. Page [4] blank. Text without music; stage directions in margins. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The Nativity: a dramatic canticle

Words by Dr. J.C. Palmer, U.S.N. ; music by James D. Dana. Page [4] blank. Text without music; stage directions in margins. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The Nativity: a dramatic canticle

Words by Dr. J.C. Palmer, U.S.N. ; music by James D. Dana. Page [4] blank. Text without music; stage directions in margins. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The national anthem of freedom

Words composed by Mrs. J. Anna Lamont, March 6th, 1862. Pages [2] and [4] blank. Cover title. On page [1]: Dedicated to all lovers of Union and Liberty throughout the Universe. Entered according to the Act of Congress ... by Daniel G. Lamont ..... Text of song in five eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: March on ye valorous hosts, march on, unfurl your banners to the breeze, with different final chorus.

The national anthem

The national anthem

Brown University

Words by M.E. Doig ; music by the people. Printed in blue in two columns divided by single line within ornamental border. Text of song in 22 four-line stanzas. At end of text: To be had of all agents of the Davis Sewing Machine. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The national anthem

The national anthem

Brown University

Words by M.E. Doig ; music by the people. Printed in blue in two columns divided by single line within ornamental border. Text of song in 22 four-line stanzas. At end of text: To be had of all agents of the Davis Sewing Machine. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The nation's lament, over the death of General U.S. Grant

By Annie C. S. Printed in two columns divided by heavy black line within mourning border. At head of text uncaptioned head-and-shoulders cut of Grant in military uniform within ornamental oval inner frame and rectangular outer frame with ornamental corners. Author statement in full: By Miss Annie C. S--, Jersey City, N.J. Poem in ten four-line stanzas.

The narrow way: part the first

Within ornamental border, printed in two columns divided by single line. At end of text: Printed for F.H. ... 1850.

The mystery of life: from the cradle to the grave

Title from cover. Printed at end of p. 3: N. Jack Trusch. Illustration on cover within a border of decorative type ornaments. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The mystery of life: from the cradle to the grave

Title from cover. Printed at end of p. 3: N. Jack Trusch. Illustration on cover within a border of decorative type ornaments. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The music, the rooms

The music, the rooms

Brown University

Title from first line. Publication date from 2001 Lea Perron dealer's catalog.

The music, the rooms

The music, the rooms

Brown University

Title from first line. Publication date from 2001 Lea Perron dealer's catalog.

The music, the rooms

The music, the rooms

Brown University

Title from first line. Publication date from 2001 Lea Perron dealer's catalog.

The murdered wife: or, The case of Henry G. Green, of Berlin, Rensselaer County, N.Y

Poem of 24 stanzas of four lines each about the 1845 murder of Mary Ann Wyatt Green by her new husband Henry G. Green and his punishment. Printed area measures 26.3 x 21.1 cm. Printed in two columns divided by tripple rule within border of type ornaments; possibly printed in Boston because of notation to this effect on verso of broadside.