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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Silver Dollar: Philips & Rance, Great Falls, Montana

1 broadsheet. Broadsheet printed on card stock, apparently advertising a dude ranch. On recto colored illustration of cowboys captioned: The Big Stack is our land mark; artist's initials and date: C.M.R. 1908. Poem printed vertically on verso.

Silver clothes

Silver clothes

Brown University

by Angela Morgan. Poetry. Printed in blue. Date suggested because her book with same title was published in 1926 and poem also in her Afterwhere, 1936. First line: Someone in silver clothes.

Silver clothes

Silver clothes

Brown University

Printed in blue. At end of text: From Afterwhere by Angela Morgan The Poets' Press Publishers, Rockefeller Center, N.Y.

Silver

Silver

Brown University

Poetry. Printed in green on cream card stock. At end of poem: Raymond Oliver. Date suggested because one of Postcard series #1 published in 1989. First line: Silver, if polished to a glow, does not.

Silently, tenderly, mournfully home

Printed on pale pink card stock. First line same as title. Poem in four numbered eight-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence, and because poem refers to "Volunteers," probably in Civil War.

Silent Sam, or, I never says nothing to nobody

Ornamental border at bottom, above colophon. Text of song in seven eight-line stanzas with chorus: To lol de rol, &c. &c. At end of text, badly mutilated in this copy: [Sol]d by John [L. Zieber] Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Signs of the Zodiac: symmetrics

David McCord. At left of text on pages [1]-[3] reproductions of photographs of relief sculptures by Paul Manship of figures of zodiac. Caption title. Twelve numbered five-line poems, beginning with Aries: Ram. "A note on the poems" by Dudley Fitts, p. [4] "These poems were written at the request of Daniel Pinkham to preface any performance of his orchestral work, Signs of the Zodiac, commissioned by Arthur Bennett Lipkin. World première 10 November 1964 ... with ... David McCord reading the poems."

Sightings I-IX: & red easy a color

Broadsheet folded to create [4] printed pages and [2] blank pages. Checkerboard illustration in black, green, blue and purple on page [3] Prospectus for limited edition of book of poems by Jerome Rothenberg illustrated by Ian Tyson; includes order form. Includes poetry.

Sidney Lanier: 1842-1881

Printed in black on beige paper. At the bottom of the page: "Dedicated to: Richard Watson Gilder, The Friend of Lanier"

Shopping in Heaven

Shopping in Heaven

Brown University

On page [1]: In remembrance of Marion Morse Mackaye... "A few copies of this leaflet, with bookplate of Marion MacKaye designed by Gordon Craig, have been printed, in July, 1939, for her friends." A poem.

Shooting at a mark

Shooting at a mark

Brown University

By Julia Colman. At head of title cut of boy shooting an arrow at a target while other children watch. Caption title. In upper right corner of page [1]: No. 108. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Shoot the Chutes open again

Poetry. Printed in two columns. Words of four songs advertising a water slide. Approximate date derived from the tune Sweet Marie, new and popular in 1893.

Ship of Zion

Ship of Zion

Brown University

To be sung to the tune: Will you go? Text of hymn in eight eight-lne stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Ship Boston

Ship Boston

Brown University

Within ornamental border printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line. Cut of seascape with caption at head of text. At end of text: Sold wholesale and retail by J.G. Hunt, at Song Depot and Book Stand, South Side City Wharf.