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.
This collection is part of Brown University Library, hosted by Brown University.

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You're the world's champ!

Printed in colors on white card stock; text in blue. At left and below text colored illustration of standing girl and reclining man with heart-shaped bruise on face. Poem in eight lines. At end of poem: Be my Valentine? Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and acquisition date of Brown University copy.

You may wear poor shoes, you may wear poor clothes

Poems advertise Fritz's drugstore and soda fountain. Poems advertise Fritz's drugstore and soda fountain. Printed in blue and green on card stock, pages [1] and [4] bluish gray, pages [2]-[3] tan, within ornamental green border. Title from first line. At head of title illustration of couple and child entering pharmacy; on page [4] illustration of man. Needle book containing 17 needles and 8 larger needles inserted in piece of blue cloth pasted onto page [2] Publication date from calendar for 1908 on page [2] At end of text on page [1]: Presented by J.A. Fritz, M.D. Vista Grande, California.

You may not expect from me

Printed on heavy rust-colored paper in postcard format. At top, bottom and between stanzas vignettes of pine twigs and cones and horseshoe. Title from first line. Poem in two four-line stanzas. Author's name, imprint and publication date from dealer.

You may never wear the khaki

Title from first line. At end of text: W.E.K. Duplicate printing on each side of folded broadside probably intended to be placed on restaurant table. Poem urges saving food for soldiers by eating less meat.

You may never wear the khaki

Title from first line. At end of text: W.E.K. Duplicate printing on each side of folded broadside probably intended to be placed on restaurant table. Poem urges saving food for soldiers by eating less meat.

You first, Sir

You first, Sir

Brown University

Poem gives religious aspect to Craven's heroism in letting pilot precede him on the escape-ladder. Poem gives religious aspect to Craven's heroism in letting pilot precede him on the escape-ladder. By Rev. G.F. Worthington, A.M., Baltimore, Md. Page [4] blank. At head of text: It is stated that when the Monitor Tecumseh was about to be blown up by a torpedo in Mobile Bay .. Poem in 17 four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and date of Craven's death in 1864.

You evoke in a flash

You evoke in a flash

Brown University

Poetry. Printed on wheat-colored paper in facsimile of author's handwriting in shape of cross. Title from first line. On verso: Love and peace. Authorship and imprint date from Lepper, p. 247.

You better mind yer parents

Poetry. Printed in brown on tan paper in postcard format within single-line border on recto. At head of title and below within border drawing signed K.P.B. of winged dancing goblins. Title from first line of untitled eight-line excerpt from Little Orphant Annie. At end of text facsimile signature: James Whitcomb Riley. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and because another similar Riley post card (The prayer perfect, HB39072) acquired with Brown University copy was mailed in 1913.

You are the poet

You are the poet

Brown University

Printed on card stock within outer border of music and inner border of outer portion of Dürer's engraving : Four horsemen of the Apocalypse. Type signed at end of poem: Dennis Gould. Below: Peace news 4 April 1975. Four horsemen of the Apocalypse.

You are my firebug

You are my firebug

Brown University

Printed in colors on heavy white paper in postcard format; text on recto in green, on verso in black. At head of text illustration of standing man and flying woman with insect's wings. Words and music of song chorus. Name of author of lyrics not on item; music by Gus Edwards. "By permission of Copyright MCMVI by Gus Edwards Music Pub. Co., 1512 Broadway, N.Y."--Colophon. "No. 4600 Music Series"--Verso.