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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What Rosa saw and did

What Rosa saw and did

Brown University

By Mrs. J. M'Nair Wright. At head of title cut of girl and old man. Caption title. In upper right corner of page [1]: No. 87. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

What next?

What next?

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Contains advertising.

What Mrs. Ella Wheeler-Wilcox says of the boys

Broadsheet printed in black and brown on heavy paper, a salesman's card. On verso text superimposed on illustration in brown of laundry equipment. Poem in recto in five six-line stanzas. On verso: N.R. Streeter & Co., manufacturers of Streeter's laundry hardware, "Sensible" novelties and ready selling specialties, Groton and Rochester, N.Y. Presented by [blank] Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

What mist; another 4th day of you lie?

Border of type ornaments at left and at left side of top. At bottom left illustration of calendar for July 1976 with the "4" outlined. Poem in four four-line stanzas.

What is Canada's flag?

What is Canada's flag?

Brown University

At head of title and at left illustration of flag with Union jack in upper left corner and maple leaf at right; flagstaff at left of text. Poem in 28 lines. Type-signed at end: Amy Redpath Roddick. Suggested publication date from ms. notation on Brown University copy.

What is a glass of beer?

At head of title cut of hand pouring beer from tankard into glass. Caption title In upper right corner of page [1]: No. 121. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence

What I saw and what I heard

Printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line. At end of text: Manufactured only by C.P. Whitten, 35 East Merrimack St., Lowell, Mass. .. Poem in 16 eight-line stanzas praising Whitten's Golden Salve. Date from internal evidence.

What does Christmas mean to me?

Pages [2-4] blank. Within colored ornamental border. Title and first line the same. In lower margin: Poem by - Florence Emmerette Peck. Decoration by - Ina L. Swift.

What do you think endures?

Folded broadsheet printed in green and red on heavy cream paper; geometric ornamental design on cover. Title from first line. In right margin of text page: A Christmas Greeting from Alice and Rollo Silver 1969.

What do the angels say?

What do the angels say?

Brown University

Poetry. Printed in light and dark green on cream paper. Illustration of sprays of lily-of-the-valley at head of text. At end of text: Selected. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

What cloud is that cloud

Bookmark printed on textured ivory paper. First line same as title. At end of text logotype of press with vignette of curbstone. "From Quechua people's poetry translated by Maria A. Proser and James Scully." Suggested publication date from publication date of book.

What Christ said

What Christ said

Brown University

Printed in red typefaces on yellow colored paper Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.