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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War!--War!: "Song for the times."

To be sung to the tune: Saw my right leg off. Text of song in five five-line stanzas. At end of text: Brandon Sem., Vt. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

War souvenirs

War souvenirs

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Printed in blue; text on title page within ornamental border. At head of text: Respectfully dedicated to the men who served in the shipyards of the Emergeny fleet.

War song: written for the 49th Reg't Mass. Volunteers

Within curvilinear border. To be sung to the tune: Columbia, the gem of the ocean. Text of song in six numbered eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: And her own Forty-Ninth, brave and bold. Colophon at end outside lower border: John F. Baldwin's Steam Printing Establishment, 114 Fulton Street, N.Y. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

War song

War song

Brown University

Tune: Marching through Georgia.

War song

War song

Brown University

Tune: Marching through Georgia.

War poems. Number three. Stanzas

Respectfully dedicated to Dr. R.C. Wood, Surgeon, U.S.A. by Serg't E. Milton, 2d U.S. Dragoons. Within border of type ornaments. At end of text below printed signature: Rio Grand - written one morning ... The above poems have been dedicated ... for the kind and skillful treatment received ... when lying in the hospital at Point Isabel. The author having been severely wounded ... on the 9th of May, at Resaca de la Palma.

War poems: No. 5. Landing of the regulars in Florida

by Sergeant Edward Milton, U.S.A. Within ornamental border. At head of text: Most respectfully dedicated to the Hon. Col. Aspinwall Consul General of the United States of America to Great Britain. Poem in eleven four-line stanzas. At end of poem: Tampa Bay, Florida, 1838; below beneath rule: The above poem is dedicated ... as an humble tribute of gratitude to the Honorable American Consul ....

War hymn

War hymn

Brown University

Printed in blue. At head of title colored illustration of American flag.

War eagle song

War eagle song

Brown University

Poetry in five eight-line stanzas with two-line chorus beginning: Hurrah for our eagle! Our bold battle eagle! Possible range of dates suggested by internal evidence.

War Camp Community Service

At head of text: The Government believes that in time of re-adjustment .. Contains 31 songs, beginning with Star Spangled Banner.

War

War

Brown University

Poem, evidently written to oppose the entry of the United States into World War I. At end of text: May 27, 1917. Harriet Lake-Burch.

Walt Whitman's Christmas greeting to a friend

French fold; printed on double leaves. On p. [4]: Greeting to Kitty. Daughter of Alma and John H. Johnston, N.Y., ca. 1880.--Reproduced from the original .. With facsimile of autographed Christmas message from Charles E. Feinberg.

Walt Whitman's Christmas greeting to a friend

French fold; printed on double leaves in black and green. On page [2] color reproduction of Christmas card showing boy, with Whitman's greeting, "For Calder with W W's love." On verso: Greeting to Calder. Son of Alma and John H. Johnston, New York, ca. 1880.--Reproduced from the original .. With facsimile of autographed Christmas message from Charles E. Feinberg.

Walt Whitman's Christmas greeting to a friend

French fold; printed on double leaves in black and green. On page [2] color reproduction of Christmas card showing boy, with Whitman's greeting, "For Calder with W W's love." On verso: Greeting to Calder. Son of Alma and John H. Johnston, New York, ca. 1880.--Reproduced from the original .. With facsimile of autographed Christmas message from Charles E. Feinberg.

Walt Whitman's buggy and horse

Printed in red, brown and black with type ornament decorations on pp. [1] and [4]. At head of title: Private. E.F. Frey p. 138. Contains: Statement of receipts and disbursements of fund for buggy and horse, for Walt Whitman by Thomas Donaldson. Cover title.