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 family pledge

Our family pledge

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Tune: Auld lang syne. At head of text: Sung at re-union, 1855.

Our family pledge

Our family pledge

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Tune: Auld lang syne. At head of text: Sung at re-union, 1855.

Our family pledge

Our family pledge

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Tune: Auld lang syne. At head of text: Sung at re-union, 1855.

Our family name

Our family name

Brown University

Within double line border with ornamental corners. Cover title: A poem written by Rev. Ralph Hoyt ... and read by him at the Hoyt Family Meeting ..

Our empire

Our empire

Brown University

At end of title: T.E. Moberly, Toronto, February 7, 1889.

Our debt

Our debt

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At end of text: Baltimore, October 16, 1861.

Our country's flag--we'll raise our hat to thee!

Title from first line. Acrostic poem in 14 lines of which the initials spell: Our Union button. Type-signed at end: By James C. Maloney, 236 East Madison St., Chicago. In lower left corner Allied Printing Trades Council, Chicago, Ill. union label.

Our country: Verses

Our country: Verses

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composed by Mrs. Nancy J. Smith, a poor blind woman. Poem, in 8 stanzas. Attribution questionable; one of several broadsides on a wide variety of subjects purporting to have been written by "Nancy J. Smith" variously described. Evidently published soon after the end of the American Civil War. Printed area: 15.2 x 6.4 cm. First line: The freedom of our country.

Our country stands for Humanity

Printed in colors on heavy white paper in postcard format. At head of title embossed colored illustration of American flag and blue flowers. Title from first line. Four-line poem.

Our country redeemed

Our country redeemed

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At end of text: Composed by O. Wheelock, Proprietor of the Great Dinners in the Palace Markets ... where the reader is respectfully invited to participate. Alludes to Civil War victory.

Our Christmas box

Our Christmas box

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published annually by the employees in Alston's Tonsorial Saloon, 33 Fourth Street, Brooklyn, E.D., December 25th, 1873. Within double line border with corner ornaments.

Our Christian new year

Our Christian new year

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W.P.C. Adams. Printed on blue paper within double line border. At end of text: Copyright 1917 ... All rights reserved for all countries ..

Our candidate

Our candidate

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Printed in red in two columns. Each song type signed: Hope Howland Smith.