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.

This collection is part of:

Items in this collection

Ordinance on arrival

Ordinance on arrival

Brown University

Poetry. Edition of 500 copies. Cream paper printed in black in facsimile of author's handwriting; colored deckled lower edge. Facsimile of signature at end of poem: Naomi Lazard 11/12/75.

Order of services on Bunker Hill: June 17th, 1875, the first centennial anniversary of the battle; by the Bunker Hill...

At head of title cuts of Massachusetts seal with Indian and motto "Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem," Bunker Hill Monument, and wreathed view of Boston inscribed "Bostonia condita A.D. 1630, Sicut patribus sit Deus nobis, Civitatis regimine donata A.D. 1822." Cover title. Colophon at lower left on page [1] below rule: Rockwell & Churchill, Prs., 39 Arch St., Boston.