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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Old cheese or meat

Old cheese or meat

Brown University

Robert Serling. Printed in grey on grey paper in postcard format. Title and text separated by red line. Publication date supplied by dealer. Caption title.

Old Cape Cod: the land of heart's desire

Printed in colors on heavy white paper in postcard format in two columns; text on verso in blue. At head of title colored landscape with houses. Type-signed at end: John Chipman. On verso information about Cape Cod. Suggested publication date from postmark on Brown University copy.

Old Cape Cod: the land of heart's desire

Poetry. Postcard printed in black and blue on heavy paper. At head of title colored reproduction of photograph of beach captioned: Sand dunes and surf; at left of text colored reproduction of landscape photograph captioned: An old Cape Cod house. Type-signed at end of poem: John Chipman. On verso: Cordial greetings from the Hyannis Rotary Club Poland Springs conclave October, 1927.

Old bachelors & old maids last prayer

Printed in two columns. Above title one cut each of woman and old man flanking text preceding title. At end of text below curvilinear line: Printed and sold at No. 25 High Street, Providence .. Above address is listed for Henry Trumbull between 1826 and 1836 in the Providence Directory. This edition not in Ford.

Old bachelors & old maids last prayer

Printed in two columns. Above title one cut each of woman and old man flanking text preceding title. At end of text below curvilinear line: Printed and sold at No. 25 High Street, Providence .. Above address is listed for Henry Trumbull between 1826 and 1836 in the Providence Directory. This edition not in Ford.

Old bachelors & old maids last prayer

Printed in two columns. Above title one cut each of woman and old man flanking text preceding title. At end of text below curvilinear line: Printed and sold at No. 25 High Street, Providence .. Above address is listed for Henry Trumbull between 1826 and 1836 in the Providence Directory. This edition not in Ford.

Old arm chair

Old arm chair

Brown University

Speaker loves dead mother's chair. Speaker loves dead mother's chair. Curvilinear line above title. At head of text vignette of musical instruments. Text of song in three eight-line stanzas. At end of text below curvilinear line: A.W. Auner's Card & Job Printing Rooms, Tenth and Race Sts., Philadelphia, Pa. Attributed to Eliza Cook; entered under title rather than author. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence. This edition not in Wolf.

Old age: 1884-1796 88

Old age: 1884-1796 88

Brown University

Pages [1] and [4] blank. Caption title. Poetry. Place of publication suggested because Lowe lived in Boston for much of his life and died there. Poem also found in Lowe's Old age birthday poems, Boston, 1889.

Old age: 1884-1796 88

Old age: 1884-1796 88

Brown University

Pages [1] and [4] blank. Caption title. Poetry. Place of publication suggested because Lowe lived in Boston for much of his life and died there. Poem also found in Lowe's Old age birthday poems, Boston, 1889.

Old age: 1884-1796 88

Old age: 1884-1796 88

Brown University

Pages [1] and [4] blank. Caption title. Poetry. Place of publication suggested because Lowe lived in Boston for much of his life and died there. Poem also found in Lowe's Old age birthday poems, Boston, 1889.

Old age: 1883-1796=87

Old age: 1883-1796=87

Brown University

A. T. L. Page [4] blank. Poetry. Place of publication suggested because Lowe lived in Boston for much of his life and died there. Poem found also in Lowe's Old age birthday poems, Boston, 1889.

Old age: 1881-1796=85

Old age: 1881-1796=85

Brown University

Pages [2]-[4] blank. Caption title. Poetry. Place of publication suggested because Lowe lived in Boston for much of his life and died there. Poem also in Lowe's Old age birthday poems, Boston, 1889.

Old age

Old age

Brown University

Text on p. [2] At head of text: (1880--1796=84.) At end of text: A.T.L.

Old age

Old age

Brown University

Text on p. [2] At head of text: (1880--1796=84.) At end of text: A.T.L.

Old age

Old age

Brown University

Text on p. [2] At head of text: (1880--1796=84.) At end of text: A.T.L.

Ol' Dick Greene

Ol' Dick Greene

Brown University

Printed in dark blue and olive green on heavy paper within border of type ornament sections; text in dark blue. Text of song in five four-line stanzas with varied four-line chorus beginning: Says Ham to Lem, "I don't give a dem!" Facsimile signature at end: Eben Francis Thompson, Censor. Suggested place of publication from location of boat club; suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Oh! Where is Snyder now

Oh! Where is Snyder now

Brown University

At head of text: A law and order song, as lately sung by the clerks, salesmen, porters and other employees of Woodburn, Bright & Co., to the tune of "Where, oh! where is my little dog gone." Taken down on a bale of dry good by Peter Peppercorn. Text of song in seven four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: But where, oh! where is Snyder now. At end of text below curvilinear line: A.W. Auner's Card and Job Printing Rooms, Tenth and Race Sts., Philadelphia, Pa. Peter Peppercorn is pseudonym of Emanuel Price; entered under title rather than author. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.