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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Order of Masonic performances

Order of Masonic performances

Brown University

Poetry and prose. Program lists "ceremonies connected with the foundation-stone" and "consecration by corn, wine and oil" mentioning wheat taken from supply used at laying of cornerstone of Bunker Hill Monument in 1825; gives words of hymn referring to Warren's death in battle and to planting of the statue of "our Master Grand" where he fell. Place and date of publication suggested because broadside concerns Masonic ceremonies at dedication of statue or at laying of cornerstone of its pedestal; statue of Joseph Warren, who had been Masonic provincial Grand Master, was placed beside Bunker Hill Monument and dedicated June 17, 1857--R. Frothingham, Life and times of Joseph Warren, Boston, 1865, p. 549-550.

Order of exercises, for Memorial Day, North Haven, Conn: May 30th, 1889

Order of exercises, for Memorial Day, North Haven, Conn: May 30th, 1889

Brown University

Within double-line borders on pages [1]-[3], with ornamental corners on page [1], and mourning border on page [4] Below title illustration signed H.W. Burns Eng. of building inscribed: 1886 Memorial Hall. Cover title. Includes program of events at Memorial Hall and in cemetery, including Roll of Honor of the War of the Rebellion and the text of three songs.