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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Stopping by woods on a snowy evening

by Robert Frost. Broadsheet. Printed on blue paper. At end of text: Bookmark for use with "Poetry A closer look"... On verso : The man he killed by T. Hardy.

Stonewall Jackson's way

Stonewall Jackson's way

Brown University

Within double-line border. At head of text: (Found on a Confederate Sergeant of Jackson's Brigade, taken at Winchester, Va.) At end of text: Martinsburg, Sept. 13th, 1862. Author identification from Ellinger, p. 166.

Stonewall Jackson, a sentinel

Within ornamental border. At head of text: No! said the noble Jackson! "let them sleep, and I will watch the camp to-night." Poem in five eight-line stanzas. Author's name not on item. Suggested publication date because poem refers to Jackson's death but Civil War is still going on.

Still life

Still life

Brown University

Mildred A. Rose. Broadsheet printed on cream paper folded to create [6] pages. Includes 14 haiku. Includes biographical information.

Still life

Still life

Brown University

Mildred A. Rose. Broadsheet printed on cream paper folded to create [6] pages. Includes 14 haiku. Includes biographical information.

Still let us keep the feast

Title from first line. Within gilt edged, double line border, printed in black and red. Illustration of adoration of the archangel at head of text signed C.H.W.

Sterling, Massachusetts

Sterling, Massachusetts

Brown University

Pages [1] and [4] blank. Issued tied in lettered cardboard wrapper. Text of poem within ornamental green border.

Sterling stoves

Sterling stoves

Brown University

Broadsheet folded to create [8] pages, each within single-line border with ornamental corners. Illustrated with eight numbered drawings of two men playing cards and smoking cigars. Advertises Sterling stoves and base burners. Includes poetry. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Stephen Collins Foster

Stephen Collins Foster

Brown University

Fourteen-line poem. At end of text: Dedicated to Josiah Kirby Lilly, founder of the Foster Memorial, Indianapolis, Indiana by William Kimberley Palmer. Chicopee, Massachusetts U.S.A. March 1935, A.D.

Stellosophical peace cards

Broadsheet printed in red and purple on heavy white paper. On recto illustration of praying hands in heart-shaped frame. Prayer on recto, poem on verso. Published by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Crafts Brady. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.

State House, March 14, 1874

Within mourning border. Pages [2]-[4] blank except for borders. Invitation to Sumner's funeral in King's Chapel Mar. 16, 1874.

State House, March 14, 1874

Within mourning border. Pages [2]-[4] blank except for borders. Invitation to Sumner's funeral in King's Chapel Mar. 16, 1874.

State House, March 14, 1874

Within mourning border. Pages [2]-[4] blank except for borders. Invitation to Sumner's funeral in King's Chapel Mar. 16, 1874.

Start and goal

Start and goal

Brown University

Printed in red and green on recto, gray on verso on heavy paper in postcard format. Rubricated initial block. Typesigned at end of poem: Christina G. Rossetti. In lower margin on recto: Copyrighted 1907. D. Hillson.

Stark weather

Stark weather

Brown University

Printed in black and brown on tan paper. At lower right illustration of house, barn and sheds. Poem in one stanza of ten lines and one of seven. Type-signed below illustration: William Trowbridge. In lower right corner: JM. ER. Tightrope VI. Issued as part of Set no. 162 with other poetry broadsides handset and printed by Jo Mish and Ed Rayher in periodical Tightrope, vol. 6.

Star spangled banner

Star spangled banner

Brown University

Printed in green. Includes words of two songs. Printers' union label in lower margin.