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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Selections from the Alpha Delta Phi songbook

Printed in two columns divided by single lines. At head of text: Published by Manhattan, October, 1858. Includes one song in Greek and eleven in English, beginning with Chaire, Alpha Delta Phi by G.S. Bishop; names and colleges of authors are given.

Selections from his forthcoming book Writing

Tom Raworth. Broadsheet printed in black and gray on cream-colored paper folded to create [8] pages; each text page in two columns divided by single line. On page [2] reproduction of a sonogram. "250 copies made 27 September 1977 to celebrate Tom Raworth's reading at Duke University"--p. 8.

Selected hymns

Selected hymns

Brown University

Page 1 top left corner has device inscribed: The Church of the Soul, founded May 3, 1896. At head of text: Mrs. Cora L.V. Richmond, Pastor.

Selected hymns

Selected hymns

Brown University

Page 1 top left corner has device inscribed: The Church of the Soul, founded May 3, 1896. At head of text: Mrs. Cora L.V. Richmond, Pastor.

Sehnsucht nach dem himmlischen Jerusalem

Within double-line border. Text of hymn in five four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: O wie schön wird es sein. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Seesaw

Seesaw

Brown University

At head of title: Song. At head of text: Tune of Shu fly.

Seen and unseen: for Janet Lewis at 90

Poetry. Printed in brown on cream paper. At end of poem: Jeffrey Akard. Colophon in lower margin. Date suggested from age of Janet Lewis, born in 1899.

Seen and unseen

Seen and unseen

Brown University

At end of text: Sent as an assurance that you will be in our thoughts during the New Year 1935. Harry and Helen Koopman.

Second report of District No. 4

Printed in three columns divided by single lines. Within border of type ornaments. Poem in thirty numbered four-line stanzas about religious teaching in public schools.

Second annual address of the mail carriers of Hartford, Conn

Letter carriers' offering prints post office information, mailbox locations, and collection schedules, as well as poem sketching letter carrier's duties and role in society, proffering the address as "his annual bow." Letter carriers' offering prints post office information, mailbox locations, and collection schedules, as well as poem sketching letter carrier's duties and role in society, proffering the address as "his annual bow." Caption title. Printed in blue within border; of type ornaments on page [1]; of double lines with corner ornamentation on pages [2]-[4] At end of poem on page [1] within border: A. H. Simonds, Printer, Hartford.

Secluded paths

Secluded paths

Brown University

Poetry. In lower margin on page 1: No. 395. At end of text on page 4: American Tract Society, 150 Nassau Street, New York. The American Tract Society was located at the above address between 1832 and 1894 and again from 1899 on. This piece printed in their "old" type, suggesting publication between 1832 and 1848.