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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Lord Bakeman: who was taken by the Turks, and put in prison, and was afterwards released by the Jailor's daughter, wh...

Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by line of advertising between type ornaments and single line at each end, within border of type ornaments. Printed vertically between columns: Sold wholesale and retail corner of Cross & Fulton sts. Boston. William Rutter had a shop on Cross St. between 1829 and 1834. First line: In India liv'd a noble Lord.

Lord Bakeman: who was taken by the Turks and put in prison, and was afterwards released by the jailor's daughter, who...

Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments within border of type ornaments. At head of first column wood-engraving of ship captioned: He sailed East, and he sailed West, Until he came to the Turkish shore. In lower margin: Sold wholesale and retail by J. G. Hunt, at Song Depot and Book stand, South side City Wharf. Hunt used this address in 1836. First line: In India lived a noble Lord.

Lord Alfred: an elegy

Lord Alfred: an elegy

Brown University

Pages [2,4] blank. Poetry in twelve four-line stanzas; first published in 1887. At head of text Ovid quotation: "Sic ubi fata vocant ... " At end of text: - T.W. Parson.

Lord Alfred: an elegy

Lord Alfred: an elegy

Brown University

Pages [2,4] blank. Poetry in twelve four-line stanzas; first published in 1887. At head of text Ovid quotation: "Sic ubi fata vocant ... " At end of text: - T.W. Parson.

Lookout Mountain

Lookout Mountain

Brown University

by Lon A. Warner. Broadsheet printed in colors on heavy white paper in postcard format; text on recto in black, on verso in blue. At head of title reproduction of color landscape photograph; at right of text reproduction of color photograph of waterfall. Poem in four eight-line stanzas on recto. On verso information about Civil War battles entitled: Military history of Chattanooga. "Lookout series no. 13"--Verso. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Looking up at leaves

Looking up at leaves

Brown University

Pages [2] and [4] blank. Printed in black and green. "Christmas 1963."

Looking backward--1895: a parody

Parody of Woosworth's The old oaken bucket attacks McKinley and praises Cleveland. Parody of Woosworth's The old oaken bucket attacks McKinley and praises Cleveland. Printed on heavy tan paper. At head of title: No. 2. Poem in three eight-line stanzas with two-line chorus beginning: The old shoddy tariff, the iron-ore tariff. At end of text: Issued by the Young Men's Democratic Club of Massachusetts, 127A Tremont St., Boston, September, 1892.

Look well to the growing edge

Title from first line. French fold; printed on double leaves. Colored initial. Page [2] blank. Opening words: All around us worlds are dying.

Look up

Look up

Brown University

Poems within single line border.

Look out for the trap!

Look out for the trap!

Brown University

by Mrs. J.P. Ballard. At head of title cut of two squirrels on branch. Caption title. In upper right corner of page [1]: No. 22.

Longstreet's retreat from Suffolk, Va

By E.W.L., 130th N.Y. Volunteers. Within border of type ornament sections. Poem in four eight-line stanzas. At end of poem: Suffolk, 1863. At end of text, below rule: For sale by all news dealers, price five cents.

Longfellow's Wayside Inn, South Sudbury, Mass

Printed on heavy paper in postcard format. Reproduction of sepia photograph of exterior or interior scene on recto of each postcard, named on caption. Captions begin differently but end: Longfellow's Wayside Inn, South Sudbury, Mass. Title from final part of captions. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Longfellow's romantic, Indian legendary poem, Hiawatha: spoken by Miss Clara Darling

Within border of type ornament sections. Cover title. Subtitle continues: In the costume of an Indian girl, with appropriate forest scenery, Indian wigwams, and other illustrative decorations. Program of monologue. "A few lines of the commencement of each canto are given in the programme"--p. [2] At end of text: O.P. Glessner, Printer, N.E. cor. Fourth and Chestnut Sts., Philad'a. Publication date suggested because Darling's Hiawatha readings in 1856 listed in Odell's Annals of the N.Y. stage, 1927, vol. 6, p. 500.

Longfellow: born: February 27, 1805

Poem in fourteen lines. At end of text: Dedicated to Commander Henry E. Rhoades U.S.N. ... by William Kimberley Palmer. Chicopee, Massachusetts U.S.A. March 1931 A.D.

Longfellow working in his study

Post card printed on heavy white paper. Reproduction of black-and-white photograph of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow sitting at table. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.