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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Long ago and now

Long ago and now

Brown University

Printed in green on white paper. Poem in four four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: N.B. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Long ago

Long ago

Brown University

Within ornamental border.

Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored breast

Broadsheet advertising card printed in colors; text on verso in black. On recto colored lithograph of Uncle Sam shaking hands with Indian man while other Indians watch, beside covered wagon containing boxes labeled: Higgins Soap; caption at lower right: The only way to secure lasting peace. On verso poem promising to wash and civilize Indians by giving them Higgins' German Laundry Soap. Title from first line of poem on verso. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Lives of great men all remind us

Postcard printed in purple within red border of type ornaments. At head of title reproduction of photograph of statue of seated man captioned: Longfellow Monument, Portland, Me. Title from first line of two four-line stanzas from Longfellow's A psalm of life. Type-signed at end of poem: Longfellow. Suggested publication date from postmark on Brown University copy.

Little Willie

Little Willie

Brown University

Text of song in three four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Little Willie was a darling. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Little Willie

Little Willie

Brown University

Poem. At end of text: Eugene Field Oct. 19, 1895. Version with spelling "curly" in verse 5, line 6. Below text: Field said his wife took the boy away .. Printed area: 16 x 5.5 cm. Printed on newsprint. First line: When Willie was a little boy.

Little Will

Little Will

Brown University

Within ornamental border. At end of text: M.L.V.W. - Price five cents. Sold by the children's friend, A.W. Scott, Augusta, Me.

Little Will

Little Will

Brown University

At end of text: M.L.V.W. - Published by the American Tract Society ..

Little Tommy Tucker

Little Tommy Tucker

Brown University

Broadsheet printed in colors on white paper; text in red and black. On recto colored illustrations of woman serving rolls to a baby and of container of Ko-Nut; on verso colored illustrations of fisherman looking through window at woman holding fish on platter and of Ko-Nut container. Advertising card for Ko-Nut, a "pure cocoanut product for shortening and frying," uses adaptations of nursery rhymes. Publisher from label on illustrated containers. Suggested range of publication dates because similar Ko-Nut advertisement (Brown University copy HB35420) is entitled "Twentieth century Mother Goose" and from internal evidence.

Little Toby's grave

Little Toby's grave

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments. At head of text: The following lines were written by the Hermit of Erving Castle, in memory of a favorite cat, Toby ..

Little sunless poems from Canada

Two strips of paper (33 x 11 cm.) pasted to form cross; folded into square. Colophon with edition statement in back. Printed in purple on charcoal paper. Title on inside left flap: Coulors of blackness.

Little sunless poems from Canada

Two strips of paper (33 x 11 cm.) pasted to form cross; folded into square. Colophon with edition statement in back. Printed in purple on charcoal paper. Title on inside left flap: Coulors of blackness.

Little sunless poems from Canada

Two strips of paper (33 x 11 cm.) pasted to form cross; folded into square. Colophon with edition statement in back. Printed in purple on charcoal paper. Title on inside left flap: Coulors of blackness.

Little ship Sunbeam

Little ship Sunbeam

Brown University

Hand colored sea-scape at head of text; landscape at end of text. Manuscript text with illuminated initial.

Little Sammy

Little Sammy

Brown University

Printed on pink paper within border of type ornament sections. Poem in ten four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of text within border: M. A. Y. Suggested publication date from dealer.

Little one

Little one

Brown University

Poem in seven numbered four-line stanzas.