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.
Poem praises Colorado and its scenic drives. Cover title. At left of title on page [1] cut of mountain landscape with pine trees; on page [4] reproduction of two photographs captioned: Beautiful Seven Falls, and: Grave of Helen Hunt Jackson. Poem in seventeen eight-line stanzas At head of text information about author who "was 77 years old at the time of his death in 1927." Type-signed at end of poem on page [3]: W. C. Hibbs. In lower left corner on page [3] printing union label for Cold Springs, without mention of state. Publication date suggested by the date of the author's death mentioned in introductory prose paragraph
Printed in gold on glossy white card stock within ornamental frame. At head of title colored lithograph of three angels watching woman and child in bed pasted onto card. Poem in six lines. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Tune: Irish tune from County Derry. Within single line border. At head of text: Dedicated to the Thursday Morning Music Club, in commemoration of its 15th anniversary, March 1918.
by James Jowett, of Providence. Pages [2] and [3] blank. Within double-line border on pages [1] and [4] Vignette of bird and foliage at head of text on page [1] Title and first part of poem, in 28 lines, on page [4] and second part, in three eight-line stanzas, on page [1] Second part to be sung to the tune: The sailor's grave. First line of second part: The help in the shop did there appear. The Calender Street fire in Providence occurred Nov. 22, 1882--King's pocket book of Providence, 1882, p. 17.
Broadsheet. Poetry. Postcard. Printed in brown on yellow paper within single-line border with maple leaves at top center and lower corners, verso postcard format with title and imprint information. At end of poem: Written by resident of Wickford, R.I. First line: Far from the city throughfares [i.e. thoroughfares?]
To be sung to the tune: Bonnie Dundee. Within double line border. Campaign song for Butler's victorious contest against R.H. Dana for Congressional seat in 1868.
To be sung to the tune: Bonnie Dundee. Within double line border. Campaign song for Butler's victorious contest against R.H. Dana for Congressional seat in 1868.
To be sung to the tune: Bonnie Dundee. Within border of type ornaments. Campaign song for Butler as a candidate in Massachusetts; he ran several times for governor in the 1870s and 1880s.
by John Barrell. Printed in black and red on recto and in gray on verso on white paper. At end of text illustration of wrecked butcher's shop; on verso vignette of man dining captioned: Good food. Poem in four four-line stanzas. Brown University copy acquired with other items from Hermes Free Press and Zephyrus Image.
Alexander B. Beard, author. Within double-line border. At left of title wood-engraving in oval border of head and shoulders of man with mustache, captioned: The author. Poem in seven four-line stanzas. At end of text within border: Address of the author, 201 Winter St., West Manchester, N.H. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
