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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What can I do?: Your mission

Within double line border. Poem in six four-line stanzas. At end of text outside border: Young Men's Christian Association, of Worcester, 7 Mechanics Hall. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

What came from the newspaper hat

Broadsheet advertising card printed in colors; text on verso in black. On recto colored lithograph of child wearing hat made from Nov. 12, 1890 issue of Public ledger; notice at lower right: Published and copyrighted by the Charles E. Hires Company. On verso poem in five four-line stanzas advertising root beer made at home from packaged product of Charles E. Hires Company. "Donaldson Brothers, N.Y."--Verso. At end of text on verso: John Luhrman, Grocer, Pacific & Maple Sts., Jersey City, N.J. Suggested publication date from date of newspaper in illustration.

What came from the newspaper hat

Broadsheet advertising card printed in colors; text on verso in black. On recto colored lithograph of child wearing hat made from Nov. 12, 1890 issue of Public ledger; notice at lower right: Published and copyrighted by the Charles E. Hires Company. On verso poem in five four-line stanzas advertising root beer made at home from packaged product of Charles E. Hires Company. "Donaldson Brothers, N.Y."--Verso. At end of text on verso: John Luhrman, Grocer, Pacific & Maple Sts., Jersey City, N.J. Suggested publication date from date of newspaper in illustration.

What came from the newspaper hat

Broadsheet advertising card printed in colors; text on verso in black. On recto colored lithograph of child wearing hat made from Nov. 12, 1890 issue of Public ledger; notice at lower right: Published and copyrighted by the Charles E. Hires Company. On verso poem in five four-line stanzas advertising root beer made at home from packaged product of Charles E. Hires Company. "Donaldson Brothers, N.Y."--Verso. At end of text on verso: John Luhrman, Grocer, Pacific & Maple Sts., Jersey City, N.J. Suggested publication date from date of newspaper in illustration.

What became of New England?

by Robert Frost. Cover title. Page [4] blank. On cover: Commencement address, Oberlin College, June 8, 1937. Reprinted from The Oberlin Alumni Magazine for May, 1938. Cream paper printed in black.

What are you going to be?

At head of title cut of little boy sitting on rock at shore. Caption title. In upper right corner of page [1]: No. 100. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

What are you going to be?

At head of title cut of little boy sitting on rock at shore. Caption title. In upper right corner of page [1]: No. 100. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

What are you going to be?

At head of title cut of little boy sitting on rock at shore. Caption title. In upper right corner of page [1]: No. 100. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

What are you about?

What are you about?

Brown University

Tune: Yankee Doodle. Printed in two columns divided by line of advertising "Sold, wholesale and retail, by William Rutter, Fulton Street, Boston" with type ornaments at each end. W. Rutter is listed as living at above address from 1829 to 1834.

Whaler. Frigate. Clippership.

Poetry. Printed on yellow paper with lower text superimposed on illustration of sailing ship. Type-signed at end: Robert Kelly "A Tansy publication."

Wha'll be king but Charlie: Banks of Champlain and The thorn

Printed in two columns divided by line of advertising "Sold, wholesale and retail, by L. Deming, No. 62 Hanover Street, 2d door from Friend Street, Boston," with type ornaments at each end. Deming was listed at above address from 1832 to 1836. This edition not in Ford. Thomas L. Philbrick in "Studies in bibliography: papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia", vo. 9, 1957, p. 255-258, ascribes the first verse of "The thorn" to Robert Burns, the second to Charles Dibdin.

Weymouth home guards

Weymouth home guards

Brown University

Printed in three columns. Cartoon of two men with crutches separating title. First line: When on my journey through the State.

Westward ho!

Westward ho!

Brown University

Engraving of pioneers on river bank signed: W.H. Dougal; poem in two stanzas printed in two columns divided by double line printed in scene; author of poem not mentioned. At end of text: Engraved for the New Mirror. From an original design. The periodical New mirror was issued in New York in 1843 and 1844. M. Richter is listed as author of the song Westward ho! (in Popular song index) First line: Droop not, brothers!

Western U

Western U

Brown University

Band of closely spaced vertical lines at top and bottom. Text of song in three eight-line stanzas with five-line chorus beginning: Old Western U. Old Gold and Blue. At end of text: Composed 1905. Words by Prof. Albert Ross. Music by Prof. R.G. Jackson. Printed by M. Norwood '24. Suggested place of publication because song refers to Western U. as located in Kansas. Suggested publication date from "'24", apparently meaning "1924", the class of the printer at Western U.

Wesolych świat

Wesolych świat

Brown University

Pages [2-4] blank; pages [2,3] ruled. Gilt decorative border frames upper half of text.

Were there never a hope for the future

Title from first line. Poetry and prose. Photograph of Isabel Davis on p. [1] captioned Mrs. Isabel Davis Sec.-at-Large of the Welfare Union. Autobiographical essay on pp. [2-3]

Were half the power that fills the world with terror

Printed on heavy, glossy white paper in postcard form. At head of title reproduction of photograph of building behind iron fence. Title from first line of four-line stanza. At end of text: From the poem "The Arsenal at Springfield, Mass." By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.