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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Sleep sweetly in this quiet room

Printed in red and black on white paper; text in black within ornamental red border. Title from first line. Poem in twelve lines. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Sleep sweet

Sleep sweet

Brown University

Ellen M. H. Gates. Printed in red and green on heavy white paper in postcard format. Illustration of sprays of roses around title. Poem in two six-line stanzas. Publication date from postmark on Brown University copy.

Sleep

Sleep

Brown University

Pages [1,4] within single line border with corner ornaments.

Slavery an immorality

Slavery an immorality

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by double line within border of type arnament sections. Poem in 24 four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and because the Civil War is not mentioned.

Slate Rock vandalism

Slate Rock vandalism

Brown University

Poem, protesting the destruction of Slate Rock [or What Cheer Rock] by the Seekonk River, in the course of road building during the Civil War. The rock had been traditionally associated with the arrival of Roger Williams in Rhode Island. Caption title. At end of text: Isaac P. Noyes. November 9, 1906. First line: Slate Rock, on the western shore of the Seekonk River.

Sky-born music

Sky-born music

Brown University

Printed in red and black within red single-line border with ornamental corners. Poem in three six-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: Ralph Waldo Emerson. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence; Brown University copy acquired in 1949.

Sixty families massacred by the Blackfoot Indians

composed by A.W. Harmon. To be sung to the tune: Just before the battle, mother. Caption title. Printed area measures: 20.3 x 13.1 cm. Poetry in 20 four-line stanzas printed in two columns divided by single rule; within double rule border. Also published under the title: Capture of William Wood, by the Blackfoot Indians. Possible range of dates suggested by internal evidence, e.g. border.

Sixth naval victory: The U.S. Brig Enterprize of 14 guns, commanded by Lieut. William Burrows, took after an engageme...

Printed area measures 24.6 x 15.7 cm. Poetry in 12 four-line stanzas about the engagement between the Enterprise and the Boxer in September 1813; printed in two columns. Cut of ship at head of title, flanked on right and left by slogan printed vertically: Free trade and sailors' rights or we will box it out. The cataloging record of the American Antiquarian Society attributes the printing to Nathaniel Coverly, Jr. comparison with the poem in "Naval songster ... " printed by Joseph White, Charleston, Mass., 1815, reveals close relationship in type setting, spacing, and textural contents also to White's printing.

Sixth Brown alumnae dinner

Broadsheet printed in sepia on tan paper folded to create [6] pages. Below title on page [1] seal of Brown University inscribed: Sigillum Universitatis Brunensis and In Deo speramus. Includes text of five songs.

Six to six

Six to six

Brown University

Tune: Adam and Eve. At head of text: Sung by Mr. Hadaway, with unbounded applause. Thomas H. Hadaway was in Philadelphia in the 1830's and early 1840's, a time the 10 hour day was an issue.

Six new and popular songs

Broadsheet printed in two columns divided by single line. On recto text of six Civil War songs beginning with: Little major (First line: At his post, the "Little Major") On verso household hints in prose, headed: These recipes are all of them good and valuable .... At head of text: By permission of Root & Cady, owners of the copyright. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Six new and popular songs

Broadsheet printed in two columns divided by single line. On recto text of six Civil War songs beginning with: Little major (First line: At his post, the "Little Major") On verso household hints in prose, headed: These recipes are all of them good and valuable .... At head of text: By permission of Root & Cady, owners of the copyright. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Six Euclidians

Six Euclidians

Brown University

Guillevic ; translated by Teo Savory. Broadsheet folded to create [8] pages. Six poems, each illustrated with a line or curve. Overstock from Unicorn Folio Series II, no. 3.

Sitting on a bench near T. Square: for David Meltzer

Poetry printed in two columns; type-signed at end: D.A. Levy 3.66. Mimeographed typescript on gold paper. At end of second column: 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]")

Sitting in a small screenhouse on a summer morning

Pages [2] and [4] blank. Printed in blue and black on white paper. On page [1] landscape illustration and white flowers on blue ground surrounding text. Poem in three stanzas of varying length on page [3] Imprint information from dealer.

Sisters, daughters

Sisters, daughters

Brown University

Broadsheet printed on wheat-colored laid paper. Publisher's flier for books by Jellema. At left of poem: The lost faces. Rod Jellema, poems. Date from publication date of book.

Sisters, daughters

Sisters, daughters

Brown University

Broadsheet printed on wheat-colored laid paper. Publisher's flier for books by Jellema. At left of poem: The lost faces. Rod Jellema, poems. Date from publication date of book.

Sisters, daughters

Sisters, daughters

Brown University

Broadsheet printed on wheat-colored laid paper. Publisher's flier for books by Jellema. At left of poem: The lost faces. Rod Jellema, poems. Date from publication date of book.