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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Outhouse poem

Outhouse poem

Brown University

Robert Bly. Poetry; issued in postcard format with imprint information on verso. Text printed on orange paper within chalked outline.

Outhouse poem

Outhouse poem

Brown University

Robert Bly. Poetry; issued in postcard format with imprint information on verso. Text printed on orange paper within chalked outline.

Out where the West begins.

Printed in colors on heavy white paper in postcard format At head of text reproduction of color photograph of Mount Holy Cross, Colorado; at left and right sprays of flowers. Poem in three stanzas, type-signed: Arthur Chapman. On verso information about poem. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence. Hay Broadsds Harris copy: On verso ms. notation about Mount Holy Cross; not mailed.

Out where the West begins

Printed in colors on recto, in blue on verso on heavy white paper in postcard format. At head of title colored illustration of landscape with cactuses. Author's name not on item. Poem in three stanzas of varying length. Suggested publication date from postmark on Brown University copy.

Out where the West begins

Printed in colors on recto, in blue on verso on heavy white paper in postcard format. At head of title colored illustration of landscape with cactuses. Author's name not on item. Poem in three stanzas of varying length. Suggested publication date from postmark on Brown University copy.

Out where the West begins

Printed in colors on recto, in blue on verso on heavy white paper in postcard format. At head of title colored illustration of landscape with cactuses. Author's name not on item. Poem in three stanzas of varying length. Suggested publication date from postmark on Brown University copy.

Out upon the prairie

Out upon the prairie

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by single line. Texts of two hymns for children. Date suggested because second hymn was first published in 1861 (Diehl 111611) and from internal evidence. Diehl attributes it to Crosby. First hymn also published in 1861; but may be earlier.

Out of this life

Out of this life

Brown University

Title printed within two lines of type ornaments. "Author unknown" Printed on yellow paper. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Out of this life

Out of this life

Brown University

Title printed within two lines of type ornaments. "Author unknown" Printed on yellow paper. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Out of this life

Out of this life

Brown University

Title printed within two lines of type ornaments. "Author unknown" Printed on yellow paper. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Out of me unworthy and unknown

Title from 1st line. At end of text: From Edgar Lee Masters Spoon River Anthology. Contains advertisement for The Soul of Ann Rutledge by Bernie Babcock.

Out in the west

Out in the west

Brown University

Page [4] blank. At end of text: "Saints' Rest," Oak Lake, Minn., September 20th, 1871.

Out in the west

Out in the west

Brown University

Page [4] blank. At end of text: "Saints' Rest," Oak Lake, Minn., September 20th, 1871.

Ours still

Ours still

Brown University

Within red single line border, printed in black, with three red initials, on buff paper. At end of text, below border: With the sympathy of / E.S. Gorham, New York ..

Our World War heroes

Our World War heroes

Brown University

Poem in twenty lines. At end of text: Dedicated to the wives, mothers and children of our World War heroes. By William Kimberley Palmer, Chicopee, Massachusetts U.S.A. January 1933 A.D.

Our window: poem

Our window: poem

Brown University

by Alfred Kreymborg ; design [by] M. Zorach ; music [by] Julian Freedman. French fold; printed on double page on mottled gray paper. On page [1] cut of male figure holding child on lap; on page [2] drawing signed: M. Zorach 1914 of woman holding child on lap; music with words of poem on page [3]; vignette of bird on page [4] Caption title. Text of poem on page [4]

Our tryst with time

Our tryst with time

Brown University

J.E. Ward. Page [2] blank. French-fold; printed on double page. Cover title. Includes two poems. Suggested publication date from date mentioned in author's ms. letter in Brown University copy.