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.
Printed in blue. At head of title cut of Revolutionary soldier in blue with eagle and 13 stars; on page [3] cut of American flag in red and blue. Cover title. Includes list of holidays (omitting Armistice Day or Veterans' Day) and rules for flag display. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence, especially omission of Nov. 11 from holiday list; Brown University copy accessioned in 1938.
Printed in blue. At head of title cut of Revolutionary soldier in blue with eagle and 13 stars; on page [3] cut of American flag in red and blue. Cover title. Includes list of holidays (omitting Armistice Day or Veterans' Day) and rules for flag display. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence, especially omission of Nov. 11 from holiday list; Brown University copy accessioned in 1938.
Von Pennrose F. Eisenbraun. Printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line within border of type ornament sections. Contains text of four children's hymns in German and one in English, all numbered. At end of text below rule and within border: Gedruckt bei Guth, Young und Trexler, Allentaun, Pa. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Rainer Maria Rilke. Broadsheet printed on letterhead of Penumbra, G.P.O. Hex Box 1501, New York, N.Y. 10001. Drawings of flying and sleeping Cupid, rider and train on recto, train on verso. At upper left on recto four-line poem beginning: Penumbra doesn't exist. Suggested publication date from period of existence of Penumbra magazine. At end of poem on verso: Tr., Charles Haseloff.
Poetry. Cut of ship seen through window at head of title; on stone of window frame: 1776; cut of skull chained to cross-bones beneath poem. At end of text: William Pitt Palmer. New York, 1865. First line: O Sea! in whose unfathomable gloom.
Poetry in fourteen lines printed on laid paper. At head of text quotation: "Chei quei persua sa lute ... " At end of text: T.W. Parsons. / Beacon Hill Place, October, 1884.
Pages [3] and [4] blank. Date from internal evidence. Poem mentions men who died in 1850s, including Danie le Manin who died in 1857. Author lived in France between 1848 and 1856.
Pages [3] and [4] blank. Date from internal evidence. Poem mentions men who died in 1850s, including Danie le Manin who died in 1857. Author lived in France between 1848 and 1856.
Printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line within ornamental border. In lower margin below border: Printed at the "Press" Office, Lancaster, Pa.
Girl laments being parted from her former lover. Girl laments being parted from her former lover. Subtitle from first line. Printed on silk in two columns divided by line of type ornaments within border of type ornaments. Text of two songs, each in four numbered eight-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
By Rev. F. H. Swender. Page [4] blank. Page [1] within mourning border. Words of two songs, the first sung to the tune "Way down upon the Swanee River" and the second to "Poor Nellie Gray." Publication date suggested from the date of the Johnstown Flood.
1 broadsheet; folded into thirds to create 6 pages. Cover title; with red and blue YMCA logo between title and imprint. Fourteen numbered songs; printed in blue.
Broadsheet. Text of three songs. Suggested publication date from ms. notation on Brown University copy and date of stadium ticket acquired with Brown University copy.
