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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Poem I'dell

Poem I'dell

Brown University

Printed on heavy yellow paper cut into shape of four-petalled flower. Gelatin silver print of woman's head collaged into center. Photo by Oaranos. Abstract totem-like image printed in blue and red on verso. Poem entitled Epomene on top and side petals.

Poem I'dell

Poem I'dell

Brown University

Printed on heavy yellow paper cut into shape of four-petalled flower. Gelatin silver print of woman's head collaged into center. Photo by Oaranos. Abstract totem-like image printed in blue and red on verso. Poem entitled Epomene on top and side petals.

Poem

Poem

Brown University

"Handset & printed by the author. July 26, 1958. 35 copies."

Poem

Poem

Brown University

by Henry N. Dodge, M.D., read at the meeting of the Washington Association of New Jersey, February 22, 1895. Page 4 blank.

Poem

Poem

Brown University

by the Rev. Charles S. Vedder, D.D. Stitched in paper wrapper lettered in red and black. Printed in red and black with rubricated initial. Cover title. Cover title continues: Read at the celebration by the Huguenot Society of Charleston, S.C., April 14, 1890, of the promulgation of the Edict of Nantz--1598. On page [4]: Five hundred copies printed for the use of the author, on Holland paper from Elzevir type, by an appreciative friend. Charleston, S.C., May, 1890.

Poem

Poem

Brown University

By Gen. Horace Binney Sargent. Page [4] blank except for border. Within mourning border. At head of title cut of American flag at half-mast. Cover title. "Written by request for the funeral obsequies of General Grant, in the City of Los Angeles, California." Poem in 13 four-line stanzas.

Poem

Poem

Brown University

Charles Simic. Edition of 500 copies. Cream paper printed in black in facsimile of author's handwriting. Poem in two four-line stanzas.

Pocketing the black stones

Nicolas Dixon. At head of title abstract design. Poem in three numbered stanzas of varying length. At end of text: Nicolas Dixon. Empty House Press. 25 April, 1970.

Pocketing the black stones

Nicolas Dixon. At head of title abstract design. Poem in three numbered stanzas of varying length. At end of text: Nicolas Dixon. Empty House Press. 25 April, 1970.

Pocasset Section, No. 5

Pocasset Section, No. 5

Brown University

Broadsheet printed on heavy glossy white paper within different border of type ornament sections on each side. Includes on both sides text of temperance songs for meeting of Cadets of Temperance. Verso, headed: Cadets of Temperance, begins with untitled song with first line: I pledge to thee this hand of mine. Songs grouped under headings: Opening, Initiation, Installation, and Closing. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Pleistocene

Pleistocene

Brown University

Broadsheet printed in brown and black on ivory paper. Illustrations include map of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, a dune landscape, plants and naked man. Periodical includes fiction, poetry, and information about the California coast and its plants.

Pleistocene

Pleistocene

Brown University

Broadsheet printed in brown and black on ivory paper. Illustrations include map of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, a dune landscape, plants and naked man. Periodical includes fiction, poetry, and information about the California coast and its plants.

Please come and have a jolly time

Invitation in verse to party at Mrs. Sewall's house to "help the Irving's festal night" and "endow our room in the hospital." Invitation in verse to party at Mrs. Sewall's house to "help the Irving's festal night" and "endow our room in the hospital." Pages [2]-[4] blank. Title from first line. Printed on paper with deckled right edges. Sixteen-line poem. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Playing catch

Playing catch

Brown University

At end of text: August 1, 1900. East Northfield, Mass.

Play out the game

Play out the game

Brown University

At head of title: Written during bombardment of Antwerp, for the Belgian Relief Fund.

Plasterer

Plasterer

Brown University

Printed in colors on white paper; text in black. At head of title colored caricature of man carrying two hods of plaster. Comic valentine with six-line poem. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Pizzzz with forg: artist, Michael Basinski

Printed in colors on heavy glossy white paper in postcard format; text on verso in black. On recto collage with words and illustrations including green frog. On verso information about SoundVision/VisionSound III, an international exhibition of "verbo-visual artwork & performance" July 7-Aug. 6, 2005 at the Nave Galley in Somerville, Mass. "Post card 4."

Pizzzz with forg: artist, Michael Basinski

Printed in colors on heavy glossy white paper in postcard format; text on verso in black. On recto collage with words and illustrations including green frog. On verso information about SoundVision/VisionSound III, an international exhibition of "verbo-visual artwork & performance" July 7-Aug. 6, 2005 at the Nave Gallery in Somerville, Mass. "Post card 4"

Pitying the wintry clod

Pitying the wintry clod

Brown University

Poetry. Printed in blue-green on cream paper; within edged border. Title from first line. Author's name not printed on item. Imprint information from dealer, David J. Holmes of Philadelphia.