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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We're going back to childhood

We're going back to childhood

Brown University

Text of song in eight three-line stanzas, with choice of three refrains. At end of text: Shirley Rensselaer, Montclair, New Jersey. August 12, 1942.

We'll keep Old Glory waving in the harbor

We'll keep Old Glory waving in the harbor

Brown University

Pages [2] and [4] blank. At head of title cut of sea battle and portrait inscribed Admiral George Deway, wrapped in American flag in gold and color. On page [3] poem in five seven-line stanzas with seven-line chorus beginning: With Dewey in our navy.

We'll be free in Maryland

We'll be free in Maryland

Brown University

Air: Gideon's band. Within ornamental border. First line: The boys down South in Dixie's land.

We who are playing tonight

We who are playing tonight

Brown University

Pages [1] and [2] blank. Poem on page [3]. On page [2] within heavy illustrated border, drawing of two girls by N.V. Lindsay. Lindsay's residency in New York in 1905 suggested possible place of publication. Record represents three editions of broadside; details in local notes.

We who are playing tonight

We who are playing tonight

Brown University

Pages [1] and [2] blank. Poem on page [3]. On page [2] within heavy illustrated border, drawing of two girls by N.V. Lindsay. Lindsay's residency in New York in 1905 suggested possible place of publication. Record represents three editions of broadside; details in local notes.

We who are playing tonight

We who are playing tonight

Brown University

Pages [1] and [2] blank. Poem on page [3]. On page [2] within heavy illustrated border, drawing of two girls by N.V. Lindsay. Lindsay's residency in New York in 1905 suggested possible place of publication. Record represents three editions of broadside; details in local notes.

We want Willkie

We want Willkie

Brown University

Processed copy. At head of text: Words and music by Helen Church and Martha Baird Allen.