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.
Broadsheet printed on card stock. Photograph of family standing in front of sod house pasted on verso. To be sung to the tune: Old log cabin in the lane. Text of song in four eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: The hinges are of leather and the windows have no glass. At end of text: Photographed and published by J.N. Templeman, Miller, Dakota. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Printed in black and blue within blue ornamental border. At head of title illustration of little boy with pilgrim's staff. Poem in three four-line stanzas. At end of text: No. 51. Suggested publication date from ms. notation on Brown University copy.
Crippled dwarf without family asks for help. Crippled dwarf without family asks for help. Lines composed by Julia Noyes Stickney. Printed in two columns divided by single line within border of type ornaments. Poem in 20 four-line stanzas. At end of text: For sale at 5 cents each. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and birth-date of author.
Printed in two columns divided by single line within border of type ornaments. Publication date suggested because another broadside poem gives his age as "60" in 1889. At end of text within border below short rule: For sale at five cents each.
Poem about veterans' lapel button imitates S. Woodworth's The old oaken bucket. Poem about veterans' lapel button imitates S. Woodworth's The old oaken bucket. By John L. Parker, Post No. 5, Lynn, Mass., author of "We old boys," etc. To be sung to the tune: The old oaken bucket. At end of text: Lynn, Mass., March 4, 1899. Poem in three eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: The little brown button.
Poem about veterans' lapel button imitates S. Woodworth's poem entitled The old oaken bucket. Poem about veterans' lapel button imitates S. Woodworth's poem entitled The old oaken bucket. To be sung to the tune: The old oaken bucket. Poem in three eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: The little brown button. Author's name not on item. Possible range of publication dates from date of another edition, and mention of old age of veterans suggests Civil War is well in the past.
Poem in 14 four-line stanzas. Printed in two columns divided by single line within border of type ornament sections; ornamental blocks above and below title. At end of text: Printed for F. H....1850.
In verse. At head of title: No. 16. Printed area: 19:6 x 11.1 cm. At head of text, quotation beginning: "When ye spread forth your hands ... ; at end: Isaiah i.15, 16. Another quotation from Isaiah at end of text. Text within decorative and single line borders; decorative initial "A" First line: At evening he retired to pray.
Printed in two columns divided by single line. At head of title wood-engraving of large hand grasping woman, baby and little girl. Below title two-line verse caption beginning: The lips of the mother are cold with grief, and her children shiver and shrink. Verse dialogue between a mother and a saloon-keeper, entitled: The mother's appeal. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Contains 6 poems. Title and introduction printed across full width of sheet. The Four quadrants beneath outlined by borders of type ornaments, contain one or two poems each, printed in two columns. Imprint date assumed to be after 1815. First line: I was born in New Hampshire, in Hillsborough county.
Contains 6 poems. Title and introduction printed across full width of sheet. Four quadrants beneath, outlined by borders of type ornaments, contain one or two poems each, printed in two columns divided by single lines. Imprint date suggested by internal evidence. First line: In my youth I was blest, by the smiles of a mother.
Border of type ornaments at head and bottom. Title printed across width of sheet, separated by curvilinear line from poems beneath. Poems printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. Imprint date suggested by typography and content. Same imprint origin as John Hay Library copy HB10306 (Capt. Jones victory ... by P. Russell.
Poetry printed in two columns divided by line of advertising with printers' ornaments at ends: Sold wholesale and retail, corner of Cross and Fulton streets,--Boston. William Rutter was listed at above address from 1829 to 1834. Not in Ford or Checklist Amer. Imprints.
Pages [1,4] blank. Within single line border with corner ornaments. At head of text: The following stanzas were suggested by the expressions of a young girl ..
