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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When it rains in Californy

Printed on heavy paper. First line same as title. Poem in two eight-line stanzas. Type signature: John S. M'Groarty. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

When I was a bachelor I lived by myself

Broadsheet printed in colors on white paper; text in red and black. On recto colored illustrations of thin bachelor and fat, smiling husband with his wife and of container of Ko-Nut; on verso colored illustrations of courting couple and of Ko-nut container. Advertising card for Ko-Nut, a "pure cocoanut product for shortening and frying," uses adaptations of nursery rhymes. Publisher from label on illustrated container. Suggested range of publication dates because similar Ko-Nut advertisement (Brown University copy HB35420) is entitled "Twentieth century Mother Goose" and from internal evidence.

When I saw sweet Nellie home

Text of song in four eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: When I saw sweet Nellie home. At end of text below curvilinear line: A.W. Auner's Card and Job Printing Rooms, Tenth and Race Sts., Philadelphia, Pa. This edition not in Wolf, American song sheets. Ascribed to Frances Kyle; entered under title rather than author. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

When I heard the learn'd astronomer

Pages [2] and [4] blank. French fold; printed on double leaves. At head of title on page [3] drawing of astronomical globe captioned: Sapiens dominabitur astris. Type-signed at end of poem: Walt Whitman.

When I go

When I go

Brown University

Poem on page [1] printed in calligraphy, perhaps reproduction of poet's handwriting. Reproduction of uncaptioned photograph of Laing on page [4] Includes short prose account by Ramon Guthrie of Laing's later life in "the Dartmouth area" and recent death. Place and date of publication suggested because of references to location near Dartmouth and to poet's death.

When green-eyed Minerva asked Paris to serve her

Pages [2]-[3] blank. Title from first line of first song. Cambridge suggested as place of publication because second song is to be sung to the tune of Fair Harvard. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

When fifty years had passed away

Title from first line. At head of text: In conversation with the "old clerk" ... to be read at the 50th anniversary of the organization of the Central Baptist Church of Norwich, Conn., Sept. 14, 1890.

When father raids the pantry

Printed in red and black. Illustration on pages [2-3] of old man and cat. On page [4] advertisement for baked goods. Date from internal evidence.

When father raids the pantry

Printed in red and black. Illustration on pages [2-3] of old man and cat. On page [4] advertisement for baked goods. Date from internal evidence.

When father raids the pantry

Printed in red and black. Illustration on pages [2-3] of old man and cat. On page [4] advertisement for baked goods. Date from internal evidence.

When Eldad led the singing.

Poem in 13 eight-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: Homer D.L. Sweet. Publication date suggested because poem states "eighteen thirty-eight" was "fifty years ago."

When Christmas comes

When Christmas comes

Brown University

Poem in five six-line stanzas. First line same as title. At end of text: Mary A. McMakin. Washington, D.C., 1892.