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 Indictment

The Indictment

Brown University

Below title on page [1] reproduction of photograph of soldiers with dead men in trench, captioned: The murder in the Philippines. Cover title. Contains three poems. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The Indictment

The Indictment

Brown University

Below title on page [1] reproduction of photograph of soldiers with dead men in trench, captioned: The murder in the Philippines. Cover title. Contains three poems. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The Indictment

The Indictment

Brown University

Below title on page [1] reproduction of photograph of soldiers with dead men in trench, captioned: The murder in the Philippines. Cover title. Contains three poems. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The Indians and whisky

The Indians and whisky

Brown University

At head of title cut of Indian carrying boy across stream. Caption title. In upper right corner of page [1]: No. 85. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The Indian's lament

The Indian's lament

Brown University

Printed on yellow paper within border of type ornament sections. Printed area measures: 13.7 x 9.6 cm. Printed on single sheet with The Indian captive, each within own border; intended to be separated. Text of song in four five-line stanzas, of which the fifth line repeats the fourth. At end of text within border: Thomas Sunrise.

The Indian's invitation

The Indian's invitation

Brown University

composed by Francis J. Burns. A song (without the music) At head of text: Francis J. Burns, the author of the following lines... has been a pupil for three years in the Institution for the Blind, at Batavia, N.Y. Date suggested because author was born in 1856 and would be old enough to raise money by selling copies of poem as he states in prose introduction. The title is set in Monumental, or Gothic, a type face patented in 1878. Within an ornamental border.

The Indian philosopher: Together with the young man's dream

Poetry printed in two columns. At end of text: Printed and sold at No. 25 High Street, Providence where 200 other kinds are kept constantly for sale ... Above address was listed in the Providence Directory for H. Trumbull from 1826 to 1836. Not in Shoemaker or Checklist Amer. imprints.

The Indian girl's song: Tyrolese evening hymn

Printed in two columns divided by single line within border of type ornaments. At head of title within border cut of wreathed woman-headed harp. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence. First song, usually called The blue Juniata, first published in 1844.

The Indian chief

The Indian chief

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. At head of text woodcut of Indian holding bow and arrow. Blanck, v. 3, p. 254 says mistakenly attributed to Philip Freneau; T.L. Philbrick in "British authorship of ballads in the Isaiah Thomas collection," Studies in bibliography, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, v. 9, 1957, p. 255-258, attributes to A.H. Hunter. Internal evidence suggests Henry Trumbull as printer.

The Indian chief

The Indian chief

Brown University

Poetry in 16 four-line stanzas printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments (florets) Title flanked by wood-engravings; on left uniformed dog as sentinel; on right seated man holding miniature soldier. In lower margin at end of text: Printed by Nathaniel Coverly, Jun. Milk-Street, Boston. According to citation in Blanck's Bibliography of American Lit. (vol. 3, p. 254): "Mistakenly attributed to ... <Freneau by Mathew Carey> ... As far as we know Freneau neither denied nor acknowledged the authorship. This edition not in Ford, Shaw/Shoemaker, or Checklist Amer. imprints.

The Indian captive

The Indian captive

Brown University

Printed on yellow paper within border of type ornament sections. Printed area measures: 13.8 x 9.6 cm. Printed on single sheet with The Indian's lament, each within own border; intended to be separated. Poem in six stanzas of varying length. At end of text: Abraham Schuyler.

The incompatible self

The incompatible self

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Advertising brochure. On recto, advertising for "Living the borrowed life" by Robert Bonazzi.

The Ina Coolbrith dahlia

Page [4] blank. Printed in sepia and red on tan paper with deckled lower edge; rubricated initial block on cover. On page [2] tipped-in photograph of middle-aged woman's head captioned: Ina Coolbrith. Cover title. On page [3] prose explanation of naming of dahlia for Ina Coolbrith and poem in four four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of poem with possible pseudonym: Cal O'Chortus. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The impartial sire

The impartial sire

Brown University

Poem in fourteen lines. At end of text: Dedicated to Charles Frank Sullivan by William Kimberley Palmer. Chicopee, Massachusetts U.S.A. Suggested publication date from date of author's inscription on Brown University copy.

The immortal Twenty-sixth Yankee Division

Poem. Printed on gray card stock. At head of title: To Major-General Clarence R. Edwards, U.S.A.; above the dedication, cameo portrait of a military officer (General Edwards?) within decorative border containing ornaments in black and red. At end of text: George Reginald Margetson. April, 1919. Copyrighted.

The idyl of the Fourth

The idyl of the Fourth

Brown University

Poem in three four-line stanzas. Includes list of Insurance companies, with their assets, represented by W.B. Smith, Insurance Agent. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.