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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Our star and flag

Our star and flag

Brown University

Tune: America. Within double line border, left side obliterated. At end of text: Dedicated to Vida Chapter, Tacoma, Washington.

Our Southern States, not long ago

Title from first line. Within double line border. At head of text: The bearer having lost his eyesight in pursuit of his business as a Millwright, has composed this song, and sells it ..

Our Southern dead

Our Southern dead

Brown University

Printed on yellow paper. At end of text: A. First line: Mourn for our glorious dead.

Our songster. Vol. 4, no. 43. Philadelphia

Contains texts of songs offered for sale by the publisher. At end: A.W. Auner's Printing Rooms, Tenth and Race Streete, Philadelphia, Pa. Each page printed in three columns, separated by single vertical lines. First song: His funeral's tomorrow / words and music by Felix McGlennon (first line: I will sing of Mike, the Turk:--Mike, one day, got tight) Includes other advertising.

Our soldiers need the pork and lamb

Title from first line. At end of text: W.E.K. Duplicate printing on each side of folded broadside probably intended to be placed on restaurant table.

Our Ship moves proudly on, my boys: A Union song

By E.W. Locke. In 7 stanzas. Each verse and its chorus celebrate at least one Civil War military or naval leader. Persons mentioned include: [George B.] McClellan, [Andrew Hull] Foote, [John] Ericsson, "Beaury" [G.T.] Beauregard, "Burnie" [Ambrose E.] Burnside, [Stonewall] Jackson and [James] Shields. At head of text: Air: "A little more cider, too". Below text: Entered according to act of Congress, by E.W. Locke, in the year 1862, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Maine. First line: Cheer up, cheer up, the night is past. First line of 1st and last chorus: McClellan is our man.

Our Rally Day song

Our Rally Day song

Brown University

Printed in colors on heavy white paper in postcard format in three columns. At head of title colored illustration of young children. Text of children's hymn in three seven-line stanzas. "Copyright 1910, by Geo. W. Wilmot."

Our prayer

Our prayer

Brown University

Author of poem unknown. Contains quote from Jim Elliot: "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, To gain what he cannot lose" Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Our prayer

Our prayer

Brown University

Author of poem unknown. Contains quote from Jim Elliot: "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, To gain what he cannot lose" Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Our prayer

Our prayer

Brown University

Author of poem unknown. Contains quote from Jim Elliot: "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, To gain what he cannot lose" Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Our prayer

Our prayer

Brown University

Author of poem unknown. Contains quote from Jim Elliot: "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, To gain what he cannot lose" Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Our pledge

Our pledge

Brown University

Cut of American flag at upper left and right; cut of eagle and shield at bottom center.. Printed on heavy white card stock in one and two columns within border of American flag type ornaments At head of text: Copyright, 1918, by Oliver E. Burns, Los Angeles, California Includes list of Allies in April, 1918, and four-line poem beginning: We can all of us help, we all of us must. "Hang one in every window." Hay Broadsides Harris copy: Round perforation for hanging in upper margin; received through the Library of Congress Duplicate Exchange; stamped: MAY 7 1918 with the number: 498020

Our pastor's birthday

Our pastor's birthday

Brown University

Tune: Hebron. Within ornamental border. Probably published in Salem, residency of Brown Emerson as pastor of the South Church in 1865.

Our paper. Thirty years singing! Concert in this place!: Over a quarter of a century's career of the Hutchinson Famil...

Caption title. Printed ca. March 30, 1869, to promote a series of concerts, by John W. and Henry Hutchinson in and near Chicago then in progress. Issued in newspaper format, printed in two columns divided by single lines, the issue sketches the history of the singing group and their performances from 1840 to 1869. Contains on page 3 the first stanza of Whittier's Furnace blast (First line: We wait beneath the furnace blast)

Our p's and q's are nicely minded!

At head of title illustration of letters "p" and "q" with legs and arms and boy holding hatchet. Invenit & sculpsit Kitzi Pantzer Cover title. Includes dedication to W.A. Jackson. "STC" probably stands for A short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland & Ireland, of which the second edition was edited by W.A. Jackson, F.S. Ferguson and K.F. Pantzer.