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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When Alice plays

When Alice plays

Brown University

Poetry. Author's name not printed on item. Author's name from autograph on Brown University copy; place of publication suggested because it was usual place of publication for Palmer's poems; suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

When again?

When again?

Brown University

Tipped in cover bearing title: A Reverie. When again? Within triple line border.

When again?

When again?

Brown University

Tipped in cover bearing title: A Reverie. When again? Within triple line border.

When again?

When again?

Brown University

Tipped in cover bearing title: A Reverie. When again? Within triple line border.

Wheat and tares

Wheat and tares

Brown University

Printed on heavy wheat-colored paper within double-line border. Poem in seven four-line stanzas. At end of text: Are you a wheat or tare? Suggested publication date from dealer.

What's to be seen at the fair!

Printed in three columns. At end of text: On Tuesday, 8th October, the day of the reception of Gen. Sheridan ..

What's the news?

What's the news?

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by single rule. At head of text: The special interest of these lines arises from the circumstance that the author ... was insane on every point except that of religion .. At end of text: Issued by the New-York Young Men's Christian Association. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

What'll you have?

What'll you have?

Brown University

French fold; printed on double page. Pages [2]-[3] blank. Printed in red and blue on white paper napkin with scalloped edges. At right of title illustration of blue ribbon badge inscribed in white: Pabst Blue Ribbon. On page [4] text and music of Pabst beer advertising jingle. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

What word for man?

What word for man?

Brown University

French fold; printed on double page. On verso: ... Proceeds from this card go to the work for peace of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, Nyack, N.Y. Pages [2,4] blank.

What wonderful things we have planned

Title from first line. Poem in two eight-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: Margaret E. Sangster. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

What women want

What women want

Brown University

Advertisement in verse for the American Rubber shoe. At foot of verso: Julius Bien & Co., N.Y. Printed and illustrated in shades of brown and white on card stock. Illustration: woman in period dress with umbrella, displaying rubber boot, in shoe store setting. On verso: Prose advertisement for rubber products in general; text has caption: Our great-grandfathers wouldn't know us. First line: Women blessed with shapely feet.

What tranquil joy his friendly presence gives!

Printed in brown on heavy tan paper; colored illustration of yellow frame house pasted on broadside above text. Title from first line of two-line excerpt from At the Saturday Club by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Type-signed at end of couplet: Holmes.

What Tot said

What Tot said

Brown University

By J. McNair Wright. At head of title cut of boys sledding. Caption title. In upper right corner of page [1]: No. 114. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

What the Peep o'day alarm clock did!

1 broadsheet. Printed within ruled borders. At end of text: Ansonia Clock Company, sole manufacturers New York, U.S.A., Peep O' Day carriage ..