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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Processional of joy

Processional of joy

Brown University

by Malcolm Schloss. 1 broadsheet. Advertisement for Processional of joy by M. Schloss. Advertises book by same name in poetry and prose.

Processional of joy

Processional of joy

Brown University

by Malcolm Schloss. 1 broadsheet. Advertisement for Processional of joy by M. Schloss. Advertises book by same name in poetry and prose.

Pro-Germans, traitors we, forsooth

Page [4] blank. Initial blocks. Title from first line. Poetry and prose. At end of poem Life: From The Columbian lyre, 1828. Imprint information from dealer.

Private George Dilboy

Private George Dilboy

Brown University

Poem in fourteen lines. At end of text: Dedicated to James Pappaioannou, president of Altis Chapter No. 85 of The AHEPA, by William Kimberley Palmer. Chicopee, Massachusetts U.S.A. December 1929 A.D.

Printer's ink

Printer's ink

Brown University

Printed on green paper in red and black. Text on page [3] within red single line border. At head of text: Dedicated to Mr. Auguste Giraldi Publisher of Le Messager de New-York.

Princeton Songs

Princeton Songs

Brown University

Printed in orange and black. On cover: seal of Princeton University. 1924 Meeting National Alumni Association Princeton University Atlanta, Ga.

Prince Souvanna Phouma: an exchange between Richard Wilbur & William Jay Smith

Two poems. French fold. Colophon on p. [4]: 100 copies of this exchange have been printed on old Stratford paper for private distribution, on Richard Wilbur's birthday, 1 March 1963. Typography by The Hippogryph press; text composed and printed by The Chapel Press, Williamstown, Mass. Title printed in green on beige paper. First line: You claim that you have American Indian blood.

Primrose Hill, and, Death of patience

Poetry. Printed area measures 19.4 x 13.8 cm. Text printed in two columns divided by line of advertising with type ornaments at each end: Sold Wholesale and Retail corner of Merchant's Row and Market Square -- Boston. Leonard Deming is listed at this address in Boston directories for 1829 to 1831; also cited as: No. 1 Faneuil Hall, south side. Not in Checklist Amer. imprints or Ford.

Primrose Hill guru

Primrose Hill guru

Brown University

Poem. Reproduced from calligraphy. Text printed in blue; title and imprint in green; and ill. to right printed in purple. At end of text: May 1965 London Alley Ginsberg. Not in Dowden, G. Ginsberg. First line: It is the moon that disappears.

Priesthood of Christ: Heb. 9:1-12

Printed in colors on recto, black on verso. Illustrations, on recto, include the tabernacle and a cross. Sunday school lesson. Text of hymn on recto; on verso, lesson and quiz. In upper corners on recto: Lesson 11. June 14. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Pretty maid milking her cow: colleen dhas cruthen na moe

Text of song in three eight-line stanzas. At end of text below curvilinear line: A.W. Auner's Card and Job Printing Rooms, Tenth and Race Sts., Philadelphia, Pa. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Pretty little hands

Pretty little hands

Brown University

At head of text: Respectfully dedicated to Miss Rosa Wulff. Title same as first line.

Pretty bee

Pretty bee

Brown University

Within colored ornamental border. At end of text: No. 8.

President Garfield's favorite hymn

Within mourning border. Text of hymn in four eight-line stanzas. At end of text: Globe Print. Author's name not on item. Suggested publication date at time of Garfield's assassination.

President Cleveland: an illustrated poem

Within double line border with corner ornaments. At head of text: Respectfully dedicated to the members of the New York delegation to the National Democratic Convention ..

Presentation of the Wooden Spoon

Page [4] blank. Below title a shield quartered with crossed spoons, scales, drinking horn and Phi Beta Kappa key, with legends Super sinistram lugemus, Mene tekel upharsin, Honi soit qui mal y pense, and In hoc signo vinces; caption Insigne Cochleaureatorum. 1852. Cover title. On page [2]: Order of exercises at the presentation of the Wooden Spoon, by the junior class in Yale College, Brewster's Hall, Tuesday evening, May 25, 1852. The Wooden Spoon Society staged presentation ceremonies at Yale conducted by the junior class between 1847 and 1871.

Presentation of the Wooden Spoon

Page [4] blank. Below title a shield quartered with crossed spoons, scales, drinking horn and Phi Beta Kappa key, with legends Super sinistram lugemus, Mene tekel upharsin, Honi soit qui mal y pense, and In hoc signo vinces; caption Insigne Cochleaureatorum; signed: D. L. Davies, Engr. Cover title. On page [2]: Presentation of the Wooden Spoon, by the junior class of Yale College, at Music Hall, Tuesday eve., June 28th, 1870. Music by Grafulla's 7th Regt. Band. The Wooden Spoon Society staged presentation ceremonies at Yale conducted by the junior class between 1847 and 1871.

Presentation of the Wooden Spoon

Page [4] blank. Below title a shield quartered with crossed spoons, scales, drinking horn and Phi Beta Kappa key, with legends Super sinistram lugemus, Mene tekel upharsin, Honi soit qui mal y pense, and In hoc signo vinces; caption Insigne Cochleaureatorum; signed: D. L. Davies, Engr. Cover title. On page [2]: Presentation of the Wooden Spoon, by the junior class of Yale College, at Music Hall, Tuesday evening, June 30th, 1868. Music by Dodworth's Band. At end of text on page [3]: From press of Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor. The Wooden Spoon Society staged presentation ceremonies at Yale conducted by the junior class between 1847 and 1871.