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 burial of Latané

The burial of Latané

Brown University

Printed on blue paper; text within border of type ornaments. At head of text: By Jno. R. Thompson. At end of text: Note- The beautiful image in the concluding stanza is borrowed .. Poem appeared in "Southern Literary Messenger," July and August 1862; also cf. version printed in His: Poems (New York, 1920) First line of poem: The combat raged not long, but ours the day.

The burden of mothers: a clarion call to redeem the race!

by Charlotte Perkins Stetson. Within ornamental borders at top and bottom on pages [3]-[4] and at bottom on page [2]; ribbon decoration on pages[1] and [2] Cover title. Poem in 17 four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The burden of mothers: a clarion call to redeem the race!

by Charlotte Perkins Stetson. Within ornamental borders at top and bottom on pages [3]-[4] and at bottom on page [2]; ribbon decoration on pages[1] and [2] Cover title. Poem in 17 four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The burden of mothers: a clarion call to redeem the race!

by Charlotte Perkins Stetson. Within ornamental borders at top and bottom on pages [3]-[4] and at bottom on page [2]; ribbon decoration on pages[1] and [2] Cover title. Poem in 17 four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The Bunker Hill centennial

Printed on speckled grey paper. Tune: Captain Jenks. At head of title: Written in honor of ex-Mayor Wightman of Boston, at the dinner given to the winner of the Centennial game.

The bullfinch

The bullfinch

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Advertising card for Clark's Mile-End Spool Cotton. Colored illustration of birds and nest frames poem in three stanzas. On verso advertising printed in blue for Clark's thread. Date from internal evidence.

The Buckwheat girls

The Buckwheat girls

Brown University

By E.R. Collins. Printed on pinkish paper within double-line border with ornamental corners. Poem in four four-line stanzas. At end of text: Respectfully inscribed to the Misses R.H. by the author. Published by George Meeker. Suggested place of publication from mention of Springfield in another poem by the same author and publisher. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The Bucket: and John Anderson, my jo

Poetry. Printed area measures 17.4 x 13.5 cm. John Anderson my jo, here in five stanzas of eight lines each, is attributed in part to Robert Burns; the basis is an old Scottish song. Text printed in two columns divided by line of advertising with type ornaments at each end: Sold Wholesale and Retail, on Cross-Street, near Mercantile Wharf. William Rutter's store was located on Cross Street from 1829 to 1834. Not in Checklist Amer. imprints or Ford.

The bucket

The bucket

Brown University

At head of title hand-colored wood-engraving of boy drinking from bucket at well. Poem in two eight-line stanzas with two-line refrain beginning: The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket. Author's name not on item. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The brotherhood

The brotherhood

Brown University

Thomas Fitzsimmons. Olive green paper printed in black in two columns. Poem in four stanzas of varying length. "A free poem."

The bronze statue

The bronze statue

Brown University

Maurice. Pages [1] and [4] blank. Caption title. At head of text: The bronze statue of Dr. N. Bowditch, translator of the Mécanique céleste, etc., modelled by Ball Hughes, Esquire (and cast by Messrs. Hooper & Co.), was, on its way to Mount Auburn, placed for a while, at the hour of high 'Change, in State Street, Boston, where the living subject was, when amongst us, so well known. Poem is signed: Maurice. Boston, June 16, '47. Imprint information from notes following poem.

The Briton's song

The Briton's song

Brown University

Without music. Caption title: The British. On p. 3: Composed in May and copyrighted in Canada July 1914, by Caleb Kinnee. Page [4] blank. Printed in blue within single line border. Includes quotations from Goldsmith and from Rev. H.F. Lyte, "Anglician [sic]".

The brisk young farmer

The brisk young farmer

Brown University

Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments; line of type ornaments between poems. Printed area measures: 22.2 x 16.9 cm. At end of text below line of type ornaments: Printed and sold at the Book-Store and Printing-Office, Middle-street, Newburyport. Where may be had books, stationary [sic], verses, &c. This edition not in Evans or Shaw/Shoemaker. Internal evidence suggests approximate date. Middle Street was the address of printer Angier March to 1799 and printer John Gilman between 1805 and 1810.

The bridges of D.B.S

The bridges of D.B.S

Brown University

Poetry. Type-signed at end: Sidney Wallach. Initial letters spell out "David B. Steinman." Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence; Brown University copy acquired in 1955.

The bridal morn

The bridal morn

Brown University

At head of text: By Miss Sarah Radcliff a graduate of the Perkins Institute, Boston. Dedicated to her friend Miss A.P. Terry.

The bridal morn

The bridal morn

Brown University

At head of text: By Miss Sarah Radcliff a graduate of the Perkins Institute, Boston. Dedicated to her friend Miss A.P. Terry.

The bridal

The bridal

Brown University

Pages [3] and [4] blank. Within double line border. At end of text: May 4th, 1854.

The bridal

The bridal

Brown University

Pages [3] and [4] blank. Within double line border. At end of text: May 4th, 1854.

The bridal

The bridal

Brown University

Pages [3] and [4] blank. Within double line border. At end of text: May 4th, 1854.