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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Lines written while looking backwards over Eugene Field's shoulder

Read by John T. Winterich to Jacob Blanck at a luncheon tendered by C. Waller Barrett, December 9, 1956. French folded; some edges deckled; printed on double pages. Page [2] blank. Colophon on page [4]: Printed at the Palimpsest Press still situate in the Harvard Yard. Between lines of colophon printer's mark of initials. First printing, on oyster white, handmade Spanish paper. All except 4 copies suppressed because of faulty impression. According to information from a note written by Jacob Blanck June 1, 1956 addressed to "Dear Dave" (See Brown University's Hay Broadsds HB34779 MA): "The epic commemorates an Event. It was printed in Harvard Yard (basement of Lamont Library to be specific) by William H. Bond, curator of mss at Houghton Library. I was his devil." RBN record represents an archival collection of 2 states (final state and first proof) of suppressed 1st printing.

Lines written on the fiftieth anniversary of the A.B. Dick Company

Printed in black and gold on heavy cream paper within gold triple-line border. Text surrounded by illustration of angel and falling sheets of paper and city, signed: R.K. + J.K. Poem in four stanzas of varying length. In lower left corner: Sheldon Dick, March 1934. Artist's name from dealer.

Lines written on the fiftieth anniversary of the A.B. Dick Company

Printed in black and gold on heavy cream paper within gold triple-line border. Text surrounded by illustration of angel and falling sheets of paper and city, signed: R.K. + J.K. Poem in four stanzas of varying length. In lower left corner: Sheldon Dick, March 1934. Artist's name from dealer.

Lines written on the fiftieth anniversary of the A.B. Dick Company

Printed in black and gold on heavy cream paper within gold triple-line border. Text surrounded by illustration of angel and falling sheets of paper and city, signed: R.K. + J.K. Poem in four stanzas of varying length. In lower left corner: Sheldon Dick, March 1934. Artist's name from dealer.

Lines written on the death of Sarah M. Cornell

Printed in two columns divided by double lines. At head of title cut of coffin. Poem in two parts, one of 16 four-line stanzas and one of 12 four-line stanzas. Hay Broadsds Harris copy: Fold damage; pencil ownership signature on recto, "Melissa Briggs."

Lines written on the death of Sarah M. Cornell

Poem in two parts with different rhyme schemes, 16 and 12 four-line stanzas, on murder of Sarah Cornell and arrest of Mr. Avery. Poem in two parts with different rhyme schemes, 16 and 12 four-line stanzas, on murder of Sarah Cornell and arrest of Mr. Avery. Poetry. Cut of coffin at head of text. Printed in two columns. Ms. notation in lower margin: Printed in 1884 from the old copy by Z. Graves, Rehoboth.