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 exercises for the celebration of the 95th anniversary of American independence: at the Opera House, Newport,...

Program; without music. Below title: Music by the "Newport Brass Band" (singing by 39 scholars of the grammar schools under the direction of Mr. Augustus French.) The second statement is in square brackets, following a comma. Printed area: 25.7 x 19.8 cm. Printed in two columns divided by a double line, within decorative border. The ode, "God bless our native land," was translated, abridged and adapted from August Mahlmann's poem, "Sachsenlied." Cf. Mahlmann, August. Sämmtliche Gedichte. 1839, p. 205-206.