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.
Printed on green paper within single line border. At head of text: dedicated to my friend, Mrs. Jane B. Collins, No. 49 Bowdoin Street, Worcester. At end of text: I offer an apology in presenting these crude "Thoughts in Verse" ... A. Francis Moores, New Berne, N.C.
Issued in postcard format as "Alternative Press postcard." Poetry in six lines printed in blue on white cardstock; lower edge deckled. Typesigned at end: Gregory Maronick.
To be sung to the tune: Goodwin. Poem in two eight-line stanzas. At end of text: H. C. G. Place of publication from ms. notation on Brown University copy. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Ode to members of Yale class graduating in 1864. Ode to members of Yale class graduating in 1864. By Henry M. Whitney, Northampton, Mass. Poem in four eight-line stanzas.
by one of the pupils. Poetry. Printed on blue-gray paper within border of type ornaments. Printed vertically in border at left: Bradford Academy; at right: July 16th, 1850.
At head of title: No. 1103. At head of text: Written by W.B. Yost - An Iowa farmer - Libertyville, Iowa. Price five cents per copy .. At end of text: Note - The copyright and all rights of this piece are for sale ..
Texts of workers' songs praise Bristol and the National Rubber Company there. Texts of workers' songs praise Bristol and the National Rubber Company there. Pages [2] and [4] blank. Printed on heavy brown paper. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and because there is a parody on a World War I song but none on World War II songs.
By a Green Bay Yankee. Satirical poem, in 17 verses, about the Convention of Delegates of the State of Pennsylvania, held at Harrisburg in 1827; the chorus is a parody of the chorus to Yankee doodle. Printed in two columns separated by a wavy line, within border of type ornaments. Printed area: 24 x 17.1 cm. Poem mentions "Good Irish Matthew" Carey and Daniel Webster, who were delegates, and John Quincy [Adams] and Andrew Jackson, who were possible candidates for the presidency in 1828. First line: Wool 'vention did in Dauphin meet.
Broadsheet folded to create [3] pages on recto; verso to be read unfolded as one page. Verso chart for weekly farm and home chores to be filled out by parent and given to teacher. Poetry and prose.
by Berton Braley. Page [6] blank. Broadsheet printed in sepia on ivory paper folded to cfreate [6] pages. Silhouettes of children in border on page [1] and on page [2]; drawings of parents and children on page [5] Includes poem in three ten-line stanzas and information about Children, the magazine for parents and order blank for trial subscription.
Keith Waldrop. Printed on white paper in reproduction of handwriting (or possibly actually handwriting) At head of title notice of a work edited and produced by Peter Hoy in Oxford, England; the long Welsh title begins: Llanfairpwllgwyn .... Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.
By Harriet Prescott Spofford. Poem in four twelve-line stanzas. At end of text: Newburyport, Mass. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
by James Scully. Printed on buff paper. Colophon in lower left corner: Available Ziesing Brothers ... From Scrap book by James Scully. First line: There are no men, no women, there is human.