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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New work

New work

Brown University

Ted Joans. Advertisement.

New verses: Dinah Crow

New verses: Dinah Crow

Brown University

Probably intended to be separated. Wood-engraving of black woman playing guitar below title. Printed in five columns divided by single lines. In lower margin: Sold by Peter Mead, 38 Strawberry Street, Philadelphia. Price 3 cents. Date suggested because Jim Crow mentions South Carolina nullification controversy. With: 101 verses : Jim Crow.

New Theatre and New Masses present Panic: a drama of industrial crisis

by Archibald MacLeish. Also symposium following play. Stanley Burnshaw, critic of New Masses; John Howard Lawson, playwright; V.I. Jerome, author of original Newsboy; Archibald MacLeish, author of "Panic." Sat, March 16 [1935] 8:15 P.M. Imperial Theatre .. Orange sheet printed in black.

New songs

New songs

Brown University

Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. At end of text: Printed September, 17th. 1811. At head of text of first poem: The following was written in consequence of a Lady having in her walks, during a residence in the country, met a poor mad woman, known by the above appellation, at whose appearance the Lady was much alarmed. The first poem is attributed to M.G. Lewis and the second to T. Campbell in Thomas L. Philbrick's "British authorship of ballads in the Isaiah Thomas collection," Studies in bibliography, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, v. 9, 1957, p. 255-258.

New song of the factory girl

Tune: Rory O'More. Within ornamental border, printed in two columns divided by double line. At head of title: [Price two cents] Woodcut of girl in landscape in upper half of broadside. First line: Let us list to the song of the factory girl.

New looking glass

New looking glass

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by single line. At end of text: Some married ladies ..

New Ironsides

New Ironsides

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At head of text: Respectfully inscribed to her officers and crew by Vim.

New Hotel Potter's opening

Llewellyn T. Smith. Printed on heavy glossy white paper. At head of title reproduction of photograph of building with sign: Hotel Potter. Poem in six four-line stanzas. Suggested place of publication from mention of Mount Kearsarge as a "beacon" in the poem; Mount Kearsarge is in New Hampshire. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

New Hampshire

New Hampshire

Brown University

Tune: Old Hundred. Within ornamental border. At head of text: Lines suggested by the occurance of the Social Festival of the Sons of New Hampshire ..

New girl in my dreams

New girl in my dreams

Brown University

Cover title: Broadside Battery III. Printed on green paper. "New girl in my dreams' is from the book Monster Cookies."--Colophon.

New England

New England

Brown University

By R.C. Waterston. Poem in five four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

New Catherine Ogee

New Catherine Ogee

Brown University

Poetry. Printed area: 13.9 x 16.7 cm. Printed in two columns. Cut of arrangement of musical instruments and score centered beneath title. Bawdy poem in 12 numbered stanzas of which nine end in the italicized phrase: Late evening dew. Not in Checklist Amer. imprints. Design and illustration of broadside identical to one with different poem bearing imprint: Printed by S. Howe, Enfield. Solomon Howe, printer, son of Baptist minister and author Solomon Howe (1750-1835), printed with his brother John in Greenwich and Enfield, Mass. and published some broadsides with his own imprint in the 1830's. The town of Enfield was separated from Greenwich, Mass. and incorporated in 1816. First line: At Monmouth, New Jersey, a place of renown.

New as the breath

New as the breath

Brown University

Bookmark. At end of text: New Years Day 1969. Title from first lines.

New as the breath

New as the breath

Brown University

Bookmark. At end of text: New Years Day 1969. Title from first lines.

New "Pins and needles" lyrics

Poetry. Printed in three columns. Author's name not on item; Rome wrote lyrics and music for Pins and needles.