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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Welcome No. 1

Welcome No. 1

Brown University

At head of title: O.E.S. Dedicated to Grand Matron Miss Cora Posey 1915-1916.

Welcome No. 1

Welcome No. 1

Brown University

At head of title: O.E.S. Dedicated to Grand Matron Miss Cora Posey 1915-1916.

Welcome home 1-5-7

Welcome home 1-5-7

Brown University

Within ornamental border. At head of text: By Colorado's soldier poet "Smiling Jim."

Welcome heroes

Welcome heroes

Brown University

Celebrates United States navy's round-the-world cruise. Celebrates United States navy's round-the-world cruise. by Marlen E. Pew. Printed in blue on heavy paper in postcard format; title at upper right. At upper left and below title colored illustration of white battleship. Poem in three numbered five-line stanzas.

Welcome and farewell to Kossuth

Page [4] blank. Cover title within border of type ornaments; double-line borders on pages [2] and [3] At end of poem: Alfred Bate Richards. November 12th, 1851. Colophon on page [3]: Petter, Duff, and Co. Crane Court, Fleet Street.

Welcome and farewell to Kossuth

Page [4] blank. Cover title within border of type ornaments; double-line borders on pages [2] and [3] At end of poem: Alfred Bate Richards. November 12th, 1851. Colophon on page [3]: Petter, Duff, and Co. Crane Court, Fleet Street.

Welcome

Welcome

Brown University

Printed on colored paper with ornamental border.

Weeping Mary

Weeping Mary

Brown University

Poem in eleven four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Wednesday

Wednesday

Brown University

Poetry. Printed on card stock. Illustration in color on gold ground of Afro-American woman scrubbing floor; dialect poem at upper right. One of set of seven cards advertising Higgins' German Laundry Soap, one for each day of the week. Date from internal evidence.

Wedlock is a ticklish thing: and, Love and sausages

Poetry within ornamental border printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line. Caricature of white man and black woman captioned "What she proposes, be it good or bad,--He still opposes, till he drives her mad" centered in title. In lower margin below border: Sold wholesale and retail by Hunts & Shaw, No. 2 Mercantile Wharf, and head of city wharf, North side; the firm's location from 1837 to 1841. This edition not in Ford or Checklist of Amer. Imprints.

Wedding hymn

Wedding hymn

Brown University

Headband of type ornaments. At head of text; Compiled and composed by Sylv[a]nus Shepherd. First line: When Adam was created, he dwelt in Eden's shade.

Weary waiting

Weary waiting

Brown University

Pages [2,4] blank. At beginning of text reply to "Summer longings."

Wealth

Wealth

Brown University

by Marie McMahan. Poetry. French fold; printed on double page; pages [1-2,4] blank. Printed in red and black on tan paper with deckled edges; rubricated initial block. Imprint information from dealer, Barry Scott of Chicago. First line: Give me a cozy cottage.

Weal or woe

Weal or woe

Brown University

Broadsheet advertising card printed on recto in colors and gold, on verso in black on heavy paper. Title on recto superimoposed on colored lithograph of man kneeling before young woman. Below illustration on recto: S.D. Sollers & Co's fine shoes. On verso dialogue poem between "He" and "She" advertising Sollers shoes beginning: Sweet maiden of the sparkling eye. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

We've got to have mondy: an old fact in a new comedy

"program week of August 30, 1926 ... the twenty-sixth Edwrd F. Albee Stock Company ... staged by Charles Schofield, scenes painted by Clarence Hanson, built by James G. Robertson" Walter Gilbert, Day Manson, A.S. Byron, Richard Abbott, Frank S. Peck, Charles Schofield, Baker Moore, Roy Wood, Mal Kelly, Gilda Leary, Lorraine Bernard, Flora Maude Gade, Mabel Woolsey

We're in the middle of a deep cloud

Printed on heavy ivory paper. Title from first line. Poem in one stanza of three lines and one of seven. Type-signed at end: Michael McClure. Removed from portfolio Semina, no. 4.

We're in the grip of the N.R.A

Printed in green, red and brown on heavy tan paper in postcard format within ornamental border; text in green. Vignettes of pinecones at top and bottom within border. Title from first line. Poem in seven lines. Type-signed at end: The Driftwind family. Author's name not on item. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence. Author's name from dealer; Brown University copy acquired with other items from Driftwind Press owned and operated by Coates.

We're going to go along with Willkie

Text of song in two numbered six-line stanzas and nine-line chorus beginning: So, we're going to go along with Willkie. At end of text: (By Wm. S. Marsh and Alice W. Darling)