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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Quando Canta Rosalinda

Quando Canta Rosalinda

Brown University

Poetry in six four-line stanzas; first appearance in newspaper in 1884. At head of text quotation from Ovid: Sic ubi fata vocant .. At end of text: T.W. Parsons.

Quaint verses for the holiday season presented by Margot & Richard Archer

Poetry. Issued in lettered folder printed in red and orange. At head of title of each poem wood-engraving in green and brown of genre scencs reproduced from the Calendarium Romanum Magnum of Johann Stoeffler (Oppenheim, 1518) Colophon on page [2] of folder: These verses have been taken from an English broadside of 1783, & the woodcuts have been reproduced from the Calendarium Romanum Magnum of Johann Stoeffler, printed by Koebel in Oppenheim, March 1518, and now in the Chapin Library at Williams College. This truncated version has been laboriously printed using foundry types on a Shniedewend Handpress 615, at The Sign of the Hippogryph, Williamstown, Mass. December 1963.

Quaint verses for the holiday season presented by Margot & Richard Archer

Poetry. Issued in lettered folder printed in red and orange. At head of title of each poem wood-engraving in green and brown of genre scencs reproduced from the Calendarium Romanum Magnum of Johann Stoeffler (Oppenheim, 1518) Colophon on page [2] of folder: These verses have been taken from an English broadside of 1783, & the woodcuts have been reproduced from the Calendarium Romanum Magnum of Johann Stoeffler, printed by Koebel in Oppenheim, March 1518, and now in the Chapin Library at Williams College. This truncated version has been laboriously printed using foundry types on a Shniedewend Handpress 615, at The Sign of the Hippogryph, Williamstown, Mass. December 1963.

Q. How are these poets alike?

Printed in black and yellow on heavy glossy white paper in postcard format. On recto portraits of Emily Dickinson, Karl Shapiro, Dylan Thomas and Robert Burns. On verso, headed: A. They're all on films from Pyramid Films, information about films about the poets. Suggested publication date from latest date mentioned.

Q. How are these poets alike?

Printed in black and yellow on heavy glossy white paper in postcard format. On recto portraits of Emily Dickinson, Karl Shapiro, Dylan Thomas and Robert Burns. On verso, headed: A. They're all on films from Pyramid Films, information about films about the poets. Suggested publication date from latest date mentioned.

Pyrola path

Pyrola path

Brown University

Poem in two four-line stanzas. Author's name not on item.

Pyrola path

Pyrola path

Brown University

At head of text three-line quotation from Dante's Paradiso beginning: Lo corpo, ond'ella fu cacciata, giace. Poem in two four-line stanzas. Author's name not on item. At end of text below rule: Printed for my niece of Italy, Ellen Parsons Monti; and my niece of New England, Francesca Monti Lunt.

Pyrola path

Pyrola path

Brown University

At head of text three-line quotation from Dante's Paradiso beginning: Lo corpo, ond'ella fu cacciata, giace. Poem in two four-line stanzas. Author's name not on item. At end of text below rule: Printed for my niece of Italy, Ellen Parsons Monti; and my niece of New England, Francesca Monti Lunt.

Puzzle

Puzzle

Brown University

Home produced holiday card. Home produced holiday card. Title on cover: Christmas greetings. Poetry in typescript on white paper. Caption title. Page [4] blank. Illustration of red and silver candle in text on page [1]. Type-signed and dated at end of text: Elizabeth C. Spicer, Christmas, 1936. The author lived in Rhode Island at time of date given.

Putting it over the Hun

Putting it over the Hun

Brown University

Within single line border. Text of song in two seven-line stanzas with five-line chorus beginning: Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah!

Putting it over the Hun

Putting it over the Hun

Brown University

Within single line border. Text of song in two seven-line stanzas with five-line chorus beginning: Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah!

Putting it over the Hun

Putting it over the Hun

Brown University

Within single line border. Text of song in two seven-line stanzas with five-line chorus beginning: Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah!

Push, or, A Fiver's busy day: a romance of Branford, Conn

Poem about adventures of a five dollar bill praises by name every Branford establishment it visits. Poem about adventures of a five dollar bill praises by name every Branford establishment it visits. By I.S. Browne. Printed in two columns. Between title and subtitle drawing of stone building bearing inscription "Blackstone Public Library." On page [4] time table of Shore Line Electric Railway Co. between Branford, Stony Creek and New Haven. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence, including mention of autos and telephones along with wagons and carriages.

Push along, keep moving, and The Irish robber

Printed in two columns divided by line of advertisement with type ornaments at ends between double lines: Sold, wholesale and retail, by L. Deming, No. 62, Hanover Street, 2nd door from Friend Street, Boston. Left column contains Push along, keep moving, interspersed with prose; right column contains The Irish robber.

Push along, keep moving, and The Irish robber

Printed in two columns divided by line of advertisement with type ornaments at ends between double lines: Sold, wholesale and retail, by L. Deming, No. 62, Hanover Street, 2nd door from Friend Street, Boston. Left column contains Push along, keep moving, interspersed with prose; right column contains The Irish robber.

Purpose

Purpose

Brown University

Poetry. Printed on pink silk ribbon. Below text vignette of sprig of leaves. Type-signed at end: Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Puritan and Genesta

Puritan and Genesta

Brown University

words by Peter Peppercorn. Poem in four stanzas on the Americas Cup race of 1855. Publisher dates based on research by the American Antiquarian Soc. from city directories, same-title publications in hand, textual references, and/or matching borders & fonts. Without music. Woodcut vignette of ship beneath title. "Air--'Yankee Doodle.'"--Above lyrics. At foot of song sheet: "A. W. Auner's Card and Job Printing Rooms, Tenth and Race Sts., Philadelphia, Pa." This edition not in Edwin Wolf's American Song Sheets.

Puritan and Genesta

Puritan and Genesta

Brown University

words by Peter Peppercorn. Poem in four stanzas on the Americas Cup race of 1855. Publisher dates based on research by the American Antiquarian Soc. from city directories, same-title publications in hand, textual references, and/or matching borders & fonts. Without music. Woodcut vignette of ship beneath title. "Air--'Yankee Doodle.'"--Above lyrics. At foot of song sheet: "A. W. Auner's Card and Job Printing Rooms, Tenth and Race Sts., Philadelphia, Pa." This edition not in Edwin Wolf's American Song Sheets.

Purgatory: poems

Purgatory: poems

Brown University

by Kathryn Eberly. Broadsheet printed on wheat-colored paper folded to create [6] pages. Below title on page [1] abstract artwork by Avital Sagalyn.

Pure as the dew

Pure as the dew

Brown University

Broadsheet advertising card printed in colors and gold within gold border on recto, in pale blue, tan and brown on verso. On recto colored lithograph of bird singing beside lake below and at right of text; on verso advertising material about liquid dentifrice Sozodont headed: Beautiful teeth the crown of beauty! Poem in three five-line stanzas about Sozodont on recto. Suggested publication date because Brown University copy acquired with another Sozodont card, Found (HB31326) which contains testimonial dated July 5, 1866.

Pure as the dew

Pure as the dew

Brown University

Broadsheet advertising card printed in colors and gold within gold border on recto, in pale blue, tan and brown on verso. On recto colored lithograph of bird singing beside lake below and at right of text; on verso advertising material about liquid dentifrice Sozodont headed: Beautiful teeth the crown of beauty! Poem in three five-line stanzas about Sozodont on recto. Suggested publication date because Brown University copy acquired with another Sozodont card, Found (HB31326) which contains testimonial dated July 5, 1866.

Pulse

Pulse

Brown University

Richard & Barbara Outram. Poem. "Christmas 1972"