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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Wims' hymn

Wims' hymn

Brown University

At head of text typescript addition: "There won't be any Kaiser any more."

Wilton Lackaye in The law and the man: founded on Victor Hugo's celebrated novel Les misérables

Printed in colors on heavy paper in postcard format; text in red in right margin on first two cards, in lower margin on third. At left or above title reproduction of tinted photograph of different scene on stage or motion picture set, man pointing gun at man holding stick and watched by woman and boy on first, trial scene with man in dock, two soldiers, judge, two lawyers and four other men on second, and two soldiers, seven other adults and girl on third. Title from caption, same on each card. Below or at right of title on each postcard: Direction Wm. A. Brady. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Wilton Lackaye in The law and the man: founded on Victor Hugo's celebrated novel Les misérables

Printed in colors on heavy paper in postcard format; text in red in right margin on first two cards, in lower margin on third. At left or above title reproduction of tinted photograph of different scene on stage or motion picture set, man pointing gun at man holding stick and watched by woman and boy on first, trial scene with man in dock, two soldiers, judge, two lawyers and four other men on second, and two soldiers, seven other adults and girl on third. Title from caption, same on each card. Below or at right of title on each postcard: Direction Wm. A. Brady. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Wilton Lackaye in The law and the man: founded on Victor Hugo's celebrated novel Les misérables

Printed in colors on heavy paper in postcard format; text in red in right margin on first two cards, in lower margin on third. At left or above title reproduction of tinted photograph of different scene on stage or motion picture set, man pointing gun at man holding stick and watched by woman and boy on first, trial scene with man in dock, two soldiers, judge, two lawyers and four other men on second, and two soldiers, seven other adults and girl on third. Title from caption, same on each card. Below or at right of title on each postcard: Direction Wm. A. Brady. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

William Riley: and, the excellent song called Captain Mulligan

Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. Printed area measures: 24.6 x 17.4 cm. At end of text: Printed and sold at No. 25, High Street Providence, where may be obtained 200 other kinds of songs and ballads. Henry Trumbull used this address from 1824 to 1836.

William Riley: and, the excellent song called Captain Mulligan

Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. Printed area measures: 24.6 x 17.4 cm. At end of text: Printed and sold at No. 25, High Street Providence, where may be obtained 200 other kinds of songs and ballads. Henry Trumbull used this address from 1824 to 1836.

William Riley: and, the excellent song called Captain Mulligan

Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. Printed area measures: 24.6 x 17.4 cm. At end of text: Printed and sold at No. 25, High Street Providence, where may be obtained 200 other kinds of songs and ballads. Henry Trumbull used this address from 1824 to 1836.

William Riley: and, the excellent song called Captain Mulligan

Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. Printed area measures: 24.6 x 17.4 cm. At end of text: Printed and sold at No. 25, High Street Providence, where may be obtained 200 other kinds of songs and ballads. Henry Trumbull used this address from 1824 to 1836.

William Riley: and, Hard fortune

Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. At end of text: Printed and sold at the bookstore No. 25 High Street, Providence, where are constantly kept for sale 150 other kinds of songs and ballads by the hundred, dozen or single. Henry Trumbull was at above address from 1826 to 1836.

William Riley: and, Hard fortune

Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. At end of text: Printed and sold at the bookstore No. 25 High Street, Providence, where are constantly kept for sale 150 other kinds of songs and ballads by the hundred, dozen or single. Henry Trumbull was at above address from 1826 to 1836.

William Morgan

William Morgan

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by double lines within border of type ornaments. At head of text vignette of galloping horse-drawn coach. Poem in 15 numbered four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and date of Morgan's supposed abduction and murder.

William Morgan

William Morgan

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by double lines within border of type ornaments. At head of text vignette of galloping horse-drawn coach. Poem in 15 numbered four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and date of Morgan's supposed abduction and murder.

William Morgan

William Morgan

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by double lines within border of type ornaments. At head of text vignette of galloping horse-drawn coach. Poem in 15 numbered four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and date of Morgan's supposed abduction and murder.

William Morgan

William Morgan

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by double lines within border of type ornaments. At head of text vignette of galloping horse-drawn coach. Poem in 15 numbered four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and date of Morgan's supposed abduction and murder.

William Kienbusch

William Kienbusch

Brown University

Catalogue of exhibition of paintings by William Kienbusch held at Kraushaar Galleries, New York, January 28 to February 16, 1963. Descriptive text by Marianne Moore.

William Cullen Bryant: 1794-1878

Fourteen-line poem. At end of text: Dedicated to Electa Kimberley of Connecticut by William Kimberley Palmer, Chicopee, Massachusetts U.S.A. June 1931 A.D.

Will you come

Will you come

Brown University

Within border of type ornament sections. Text of two hymns. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Will you come

Will you come

Brown University

Within border of type ornament sections. Text of two hymns. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Will you come

Will you come

Brown University

Within border of type ornament sections. Text of two hymns. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Will they weep for me at home?

Within illustrated border containing black and white musicians (Wolf T De Marsan clown) Air: Do they think of me at home?--by Walter Warren. First line same as title. Text of song in three eight-line stanzas with last two lines in each stanza to be repeated. At end of text in label: H. De Marsan, Publisher, 54 Chatham Street, New-York. Ascribed to Walter Warren (pseudonym of George Lansing Raymond); entered under title rather than author. De Marsan used this address from 1861 to 1864.

Will they weep for me at home?

Within illustrated border with cupids, musician and woman (Wolf G De Marsan kissing cupids) Air: Do they think of me at home?--by Walter Warren. First line same as title. Text of song in three eight-line stanzas with last two lines of each stanza to be repeated. In label in lower border: H. De Marsan, Dealer in Songs, Toy Books &c. No. 54 Chatham N.Y. This edition not in Wolf, Amer. song sheets. De Marsan used this address from 1861 to 1864. Ascribed to Walter Warren (pseudonym of George Lansing Raymond); entered under title rather than author.

Will they weep for me at home?

Within border of type ornament sections. At head of text: Air--Do they think of me at home--by Walter Warren. Text of song in three eight-line stanzas with two last lines of each stanzas to be repeated. In upper right corner: 850. At end of text below rule, within border: Published and sold at wholesale by Horace Partridge, importer and wholesale dealer in fancy goods, toys, watches, jewelry, Yankee notions, &c. No. 27 Hanover Street, Boston. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence. Attributed to Walter Warren (pseudonym of George Lansing Raymond); entered under title rather than author.

Will they weep for me at home?

Within illustrated border with cupids, musician and woman (Wolf G De Marsan kissing cupids) Air: Do they think of me at home?--by Walter Warren. First line same as title. Text of song in three eight-line stanzas with last two lines of each stanza to be repeated. In label in lower border: H. De Marsan, Dealer in Songs, Toy Books &c. No. 54 Chatham N.Y. This edition not in Wolf, Amer. song sheets. De Marsan used this address from 1861 to 1864. Ascribed to Walter Warren (pseudonym of George Lansing Raymond); entered under title rather than author.

Will they weep for me at home?

Within illustrated border containing black and white musicians (Wolf T De Marsan clown) Air: Do they think of me at home?--by Walter Warren. First line same as title. Text of song in three eight-line stanzas with last two lines in each stanza to be repeated. At end of text in label: H. De Marsan, Publisher, 54 Chatham Street, New-York. Ascribed to Walter Warren (pseudonym of George Lansing Raymond); entered under title rather than author. De Marsan used this address from 1861 to 1864.