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 Enterprize & Boxer: The Constitution and Java

Printed in two columns, one poem to each, divided by curvilinear line; lines of type ornaments at top and bottom. Texts of two songs, each in seven eight-line stanzas with two-line chorus. Without author's name but ascribed to P. Russell. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The end of the road

The end of the road

Brown University

by Francis E. Pope. Processed copy. In reproduced handwriting on letter paper with letterhead: Mary A. Lee, 67 Barnes St., Providence, R.I. Poem in six four-line stanzas. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.

The empty sleeve

The empty sleeve

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments. American eagle with shield above title.

The empty sleeve

The empty sleeve

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments. At head of text: Written by a one-armed soldier, of the 147th Pa. Vols. At end of text: Sold by D.S. Bacon, a blind man.

The empty sleeve

The empty sleeve

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments. American eagle with shield above title.

The empty sleeve

The empty sleeve

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments. American eagle with shield above title.

The empty sleeve

The empty sleeve

Brown University

Two poems, possibly meant to be separated, printed side-by-side. Each poem printed in two columns divided by single line within double-line border. At head of each title: Price ten cents. At end of each poem: David Gingry, Jr. Prose accounts of Gingry's military career and injuries precede each poem. This is not poem with the same title generally attributed to George Washington Thomas. Thomas' poem begins: 'Tis but a common story, I shall to you unfold.

The elm tree

The elm tree

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Illustration entitled,"The Whittier elm" on verso.

The elixir vitae

The elixir vitae

Brown University

Broadsheet printed on card stock. On verso lithograph of child with puppies and cat, with ruled advertising in upper right: Vaseline Chesebrough Man'f'g Co.... Advertisement for Vaseline made by Chesebrough Manufacturing Co. Date from internal evidence.

The elixir vitae

The elixir vitae

Brown University

Broadsheet printed on card stock. On verso colored lithograph of obelisk captioned: Egyptian obelisk in Central Park, New York, with ruled advertising within border in upper left beginning: Chesebrough Manf'g. Co.... Advertisement for Vaseline made by Chesebrough Manufacturing Co. Date from internal evidence; Central Park obelisk erected in 1881.

The elixir vitae

The elixir vitae

Brown University

Broadsheet printed on card stock. On verso, colored lithograph of boy and girl picking apples with advertising text: Vaseline Chesebrough Man'f'g Co. Advertisement for Vaseline made by Chesebrough Manufacturing Co. Date from internal evidence.

The eleventh hour

The eleventh hour

Brown University

At end of text: (In commemoration of the signing of the Armistice, November 11th, 1918) ..

The elephant song

The elephant song

Brown University

Has also been printed under the following titles: Van Amburgh's menagerie; The menagerie.

The education of a prince

At head of text: The people of America is the sovereign of America. At end of text: A happy New Year!

The education of a prince

At head of text: The people of America is the sovereign of America. At end of text: A happy New Year!

The Edgar Allen Poe's shrine (oldest house in Richmond)

Printed on heavy paper in postcard format; text on recto in black, on verso in reddish brown. At head of title reproduction of color photograph of buildings with Poe shrine in center. Title from caption. "Beautiful and historical Richmond, Va. series. No. 25. Edgar Allen Poes's shrine"--verso. Suggested publication date from postmark on Brown University copy.

The Edgar Allen Poe's shrine (oldest house in Richmond)

Printed on heavy paper in postcard format; text on recto in black, on verso in reddish brown. At head of title reproduction of color photograph of buildings with Poe shrine in center. Title from caption. "Beautiful and historical Richmond, Va. series. No. 25. Edgar Allen Poes's shrine"--verso. Suggested publication date from postmark on Brown University copy.