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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Moscow

Moscow

Brown University

Author is source for imprint information. [See MS Howard 1951-1960/Archives]

Morte D'Alfred

Morte D'Alfred

Brown University

At head of text: Dedicated to Lady Elizabeth [sic] Tennyson.

Morning on the desert

Morning on the desert

Brown University

by Hildegarde Flanner. French fold; printed on double page. Poetry. Cover title. Printed in red and black on cream paper; printer's mark, a red ampersand, on page [4] "100 copies printed by The Ampersand Press on July 27, 1929"--Colophon. First line: Day on dewless hinges.

Mornin' On the Desert

Mornin' On the Desert

Brown University

Postcard with image of a desert sunrise on the front. The text is printed over the image. The postcard is signed "Susie" and "Chucky"

Morgelied

Morgelied

Brown University

Within red/black border of type ornaments; with rubricated initial blocks and type ornament decorations and printer's mark. At head of text, wood engraving by Jervis McIntee. At end of text, explanatory note and colophon.

More truth than poetry

More truth than poetry

Brown University

Poem predicts trouble "if the town goes dry." Poem predicts trouble "if the town goes dry." On tan paper. Poem in six four-line stanzas. Town where published from printer's union label at bottom center. Suggested publication date and state where published from dealer.

Moons

Moons

Brown University

by Victoria Howard. Four short verses, printed side by side, in Clackamas (First line: Nútxit ...) and English (First line: A large moon stood); each verse between rules. In lower fourth, printed in two columns below rule, background information on the author and the font designed for the Clackamas texts. Broadside received at Brown not before 1960 or after 1980; dated accordingly.

Moon the shirt and pants Monopoly man

Fielding Dawson, Stephen Emerson. Printed in black and yellow on heavy white paper. Cover title. "300 copies, 99 of which are signed by the authors."

Monumental ode!

Monumental ode!

Brown University

by O.S. Parmenter. Within double-line border. Poem in five six-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and indications that the Civil War is meant, since the patriots lie "in southern soil" and fought to make the land "free."

Monumental inscriptions!

Contains six woodcuts of gravestones bearing names and histories of Edward Lindsey, Henry Lewis, David Morrow, Jacob Webb, John Harris and David Hunt. At head of text: These inscriptions, compiled from authentic sources. At end of text: Mournful tragedy; or, the death of Jacob Webb, David Morrow, John Harris, Henry Lewis, David Hunt and Edward Lindsey ..

Montgomery Ward

Montgomery Ward

Brown University

Poem protests government treatment of Montgomery Ward when its head was ejected from his office by soldiers. Poem protests government treatment of Montgomery Ward when its head was ejected from his office by soldiers. Printed on blue paper in two columns divided by type ornament section. Type-signed at end: William Hobart Royce. May 11, 1944. 50 Ninety-first Street, Brooklyn 9.

Montaigne's pate

Montaigne's pate

Brown University

Upper and lower borders of books. "Seasons greetings, 1959 John, Doris, Johnny, Evan and Margaret Holmes."