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 dying Confederate's last words

Printed on yellow paper within double line border. Poem in six numbered four-line stanzas. At end of text: Maryland. Sometimes attributed to L. Katzenberger; cf. E.P. Ellinger, The Southern war poetry of the civil war.

The dying child

The dying child

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments. Text of song in five eight-line stanzas with three-line chorus beginning: O my mother, don't you cry for me. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The dying child

The dying child

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments. Text of song in five eight-line stanzas with three-line chorus beginning: O my mother, don't you cry for me. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The dying boy to his mother

Within ornamental border. At head of text: The following lines were written on the death of George Gardiner, eldest son of George B. and Caroline Bird of Munnsville, N.Y., who died of the scarlet fever, September 23d, 1842, aged four years and ten months. First line: Your heart is very sad, mamma.

The dusty road

The dusty road

Brown University

Photograph of author. At end of text: From "All in a Garden Fair and Other Verse." Publication date from publication date of All in a garden fair.

The Duster family

The Duster family

Brown University

Each of the seven broadsides with same first line: each an advertising brochure for different household furnishings, illustrated according to the contents by Ralph Ellison Reid.

The Duster family

The Duster family

Brown University

Each of the seven broadsides with same first line: each an advertising brochure for different household furnishings, illustrated according to the contents by Ralph Ellison Reid.

The Duster family

The Duster family

Brown University

Each of the seven broadsides with same first line: each an advertising brochure for different household furnishings, illustrated according to the contents by Ralph Ellison Reid.

The Duster family

The Duster family

Brown University

Each of the seven broadsides with same first line: each an advertising brochure for different household furnishings, illustrated according to the contents by Ralph Ellison Reid.

The Duster family

The Duster family

Brown University

Each of the seven broadsides with same first line: each an advertising brochure for different household furnishings, illustrated according to the contents by Ralph Ellison Reid.

The Duster family

The Duster family

Brown University

Each of the seven broadsides with same first line: each an advertising brochure for different household furnishings, illustrated according to the contents by Ralph Ellison Reid.

The Duster family

The Duster family

Brown University

Each of the seven broadsides with same first line: each an advertising brochure for different household furnishings, illustrated according to the contents by Ralph Ellison Reid.

The duck

The duck

Brown University

Processed copy; printed on yellow; each poem type-signed at end Between poems: Free poems among friends "Free poems among friends" had its beginnings in San Francisco in the Spring of 1965. By September of that year publication was continued until 1967 by the Detroit Artist's Workshop, later Detroit Artists' Workshop Press (see "Free poems among friends, Vol. 1, p.[3]")

The drunkard's story

The drunkard's story

Brown University

Poetry. Caption title. At head of title on page 1: No. 65. At end of text on page 4, within rules: American Tract Society, 28 Cornhill, Boston. The American Tract Society published at 28 Cornhill, Boston, from 1841 to 1868. First line: In a street of a great city, leading toward the railway station.

The drunkard's song

The drunkard's song

Brown University

By John Collins. Poetry. Printed in three columns divided by single lines within border of type ornaments. In center column engravings of drunken man and of woman and child. Publication date must be after Hood's Song of the shirt, which it imitates; journal was known as Phrenological journal starting in 1863. At head of title: From S. R. Wells' Phrenological Journal, New York. First line: With eyelids tearful and red. Originally published: Phrenological journal and life illustrated.

The drunkard

The drunkard

Brown University

Within triple line border. First line: Ho! Ye that throng so madly.

The drummer's protest

The drummer's protest

Brown University

Broadsheet printed on heavy glossy pale gray paper. One poem on recto, the other on verso. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The Drift-wind: a tramp magazine issued for the love of literature

Printed on birch bark; at head of title vignette of sailing ship above double rule "February, 1927. Walter J. Coates, Edutor & Printer. North Montpelier, Vt." Includes Latin motto and quotation from Benjain Franklin beginning: 'Tis a shame that your family is an honor to you! and type-signed: Poor Richard

The dreamer

The dreamer

Brown University

Caption title Off-white paper printed in deep blue; printed as a Christmas greeting

The dreamer

The dreamer

Brown University

Caption title Off-white paper printed in deep blue; printed as a Christmas greeting