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.
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The last sensation

The last sensation

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by single line. Within border of type ornaments. Date suggested by appearance of item.

The last sensation

The last sensation

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by single line. Within border of type ornaments. Date suggested by appearance of item.

The Last race of the rail-splitter

Within double line border printed in two columns. At head of title: Cut of running Afro-American with pack. At end of text: -*It will not be forgotten that Lincoln, after his election... Verse.

The last glass

The last glass

Brown University

Poetry. Poem tells how speaker has given up drink. At end of text: Since the above gay and festive youth swore off, he has braced up and purchased a hat, a pair of cuff buttons, a sett of shirt studs, and a biled shirt at Franklin's 99 Cent Store, 252 Essex St., the cheapest place in Salem. Date from appearance of item. First line: No, thank you, not any to night, boys, for me.

The last days of the monarchs

Carol Lee Sanchez. Printed on ivory paper in two columns within lines of type ornaments at top and bottom. Poem in five stanzas of varying length. "From: Conversations from the nightmare, by Carol Lee Sanchez. Available from Casa Editorial ...." Suggested publication date from publication date of book.

The last day

The last day

Brown University

Poem in eight stanzas about the Last Judgment. Date suggested by appearance of item.

The last day

The last day

Brown University

Poem in eight stanzas about the Last Judgment. Date suggested by appearance of item.

The last day

The last day

Brown University

Poem in eight stanzas about the Last Judgment. Date suggested by appearance of item.

The last constitution

The last constitution

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Attacks new constitution proposed for Rhode Island and praises T.W. Dorr, the "lawful Governor." Attacks new constitution proposed for Rhode Island and praises T.W. Dorr, the "lawful Governor." Within border of type ornaments. Printed area measures: 29.4 x 8.3 cm. Poem in thirteen four-line stanzas with varying four-line refrain. At end of text: A Dorrite Lady. Printed on single sheet with The Suffrage boys and Providence Chronicle's alarm; intended to be separated; measurement if separated: 30 x 11 cm.

The Las Vegas cowboys reunion

by N. Howard "Jack" Thorp. Printed on heavy white paper in postcard format. On recto text of song in three eight-line stanzas with eight-line chorus beginning: With angora chaps en carnival hats. On verso, headed: "She's 7 year old this July," invitation to seventh cowboys reunion July 4-6, 1921.

The lariat

The lariat

Brown University

Printed in three columns on pages 1 and 4 and four columns on pages 2-3 divided by single lines. Title superimposed on vignette of man riding horseback towards mountains At head of text: Compliments of Captain Jack Crawford. Contains 14 poems by Capt. Jack Crawford, beginning with Under the sod. Announcement of play, Capt. Jack, with cast of characters including Crawford.

The landlubber's chantey

Reprinted from the Boston Globe. At head of text: (As he gazes from his office window at a ship clearing for the open sea) Title within line border.

The land we adore

The land we adore

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by Samuel C. Upham, a "Forty-niner" Printed in two columns divided by single line. Caption title. At head of title: The following poem written for the occasion, was read by the author at the celebration of the Twenty-Seventh Anniversary of the admission of California into the Union, held at the Ocean Hotel, Long Beach, N.J., Sept 8th, 1877, under the auspices of "The Associated Pioneers of the Territorial Days of California"

The land song

The land song

Brown University

To be sung to the tune: Marching through Georgia. Text of song in four four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: The land! the land! 'twas God who gave the land! At end of text: Study the economic principles of the land question. Three booklets on the Singletax, and The Public 13 weeks 25 cts. Address The Public, Ellsworth Bldg., Chicago. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and because of mention of the "single tax," popular in the 1890s.

The land of sweet Erin: together with, The garland of love, and Erin go brah

Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. Authors' names not given on broadsides; see Thomas L. Philbrick in Studies in bibliography, papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, v. 9, 1957, p. 255-258, for attribution. Woodcut of Neptune at left of title. This edition not in Ford. At end of text below double rule: Printed by N. Coverly, No. 16, Milk-Street, Boston. Uniform title for Erin go brah "The exile of Erin.

The land beyond the sea

The land beyond the sea

Brown University

First line same as title. Within ornamental border. Text of hymn in seven six-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of text: Faber. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.