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.
Broadsheet. Religious poem, in 7 verses. At end of text, on verso: M.E. Brainard. This may be Mary G. Brainard, to whom this poem has been attributed by an earlier cataloger. Printed in dark green on off-white paper. First line: I know not what will befall me!
Printed in four columns. Includes text of eight patriotic songs, beginning with Not forgotten. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Pages [2] and [4] blank. Printed in red and black on heavy paper; rubricated initial blocks. On page [3] cut of rising sun. Title from first lines. Author's name, imprint and suggested range of publication dates from dealer.
Pages [2] and [4] blank. Printed in red and black on heavy paper; rubricated initial blocks. On page [3] cut of rising sun. Title from first lines. Author's name, imprint and suggested range of publication dates from dealer.
Pages [2] and [4] blank. Printed in red and black on heavy paper; rubricated initial blocks. On page [3] cut of rising sun. Title from first lines. Author's name, imprint and suggested range of publication dates from dealer.
Woven in colors on ivory silk ribbon; bottom corners pasted back to make triangular tip. At head of text illustration of pink rose with leaves; at end of text illustration of two draped American flags with pink roses. Includes poem in red and blue lettering type-signed: Anson G. Chester, 1859. On folded-over bottom edges: Thomas Stevens, Ltd. Coventry, England.
With ornamental border. At head of text: Unde venis, cujus aceto? .. At end of text: Observer, Newburyport, May, 1870. Note.-A "Rhapsody" on the "Old South" .. First line: I wrote some lines once on a time.
Printed on yellow paper. At head of text vignette of hand reaching down from clouds and holding scales. Poem in six four-line stanzas. At end of text: Thompson & Co., Printers, Raleigh, 1861. Poem by Luala, i.e. Mrs. Ayer Miller.
Text of song in three eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: O, Norah, Norah, darling. At end of text below curvilinear line: A.W. Auner's Card and Job Printing Rooms, Tenth and Race Sts., Philadelphia, Pa. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Poem in five four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of poem: Fanny Purdy Palmer. Brown University copy pasted onto page [3] of white paper folder; on page [1] of folder is uncaptioned photograph of white irises pasted at center; on page [2] is ms. letter to Mr. and Mrs Koopman from Henrietta R. Palmer, undated. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.