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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Lines written on the death of Pricilla Hill: who died of a consumption, December 6, 1813

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Printed in two columns divided by single rule. At head of text: Presented to a mourning sister of the deceased by a friend. At end of text: Blessed are the dead who die in the lord ... To Miss Sarah Hill.

Lines written on the death of Mrs. Betsey S. Wing: who slept in Jesus upon the dawn of the Sabbath, May 27th, 1877

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Page [2] and page [4] blank. Within double line border.

Lines written on the death of Mrs. Betsey S. Wing: who slept in Jesus upon the dawn of the Sabbath, May 27th, 1877

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Page [2] and page [4] blank. Within double line border.

Lines written on the death of Mr. Thomas L. Brown: who departed this life March 21, 1839, aged 24 years, of consumption

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Poem reports family's mourning and trusts that Brown is in Heaven. Poem reports family's mourning and trusts that Brown is in Heaven. Printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line within border of type ornaments. Printed area measures: 25.0 x 14.4 cm. Poem in 21 numbered four-line stanzas. At end of text within border: S.B.O. Not in Checklist Amer. imprints 1830-1839.

Lines written on the death of Moses F. Wheelwright and John C. Eaton: who were drowned off Wells Beach

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Lines written on the death of Miss Martha Decker, who was drowned crossing the Chemung River, August 1st, 1843

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Coffin at head of text. Within ornamental border printed in two columns divided by single rule. First line: Come all ye dear people of every degree.

Lines written on the death of Miss Eliza Voorhis

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by her friend, J.C.R. Within ornamental borders.

Lines written on the death of Melissa C. Hobbs, daughter of J.W.F. and E.J. Hobbs: who died in Boston, Jan. 28, 1850, aged 3 years and 5 months

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By Mrs. Julia H. Marden. Printed on blue-gray paper in two columns divided by double lines within border of type ornament sections with ornamental corners. Poem in 22 four-line stanzas. At end of text within border: Dearborn, Printer, 1 Water Street, Boston.

Lines written on the death of Laura Lucinda Boutell, who died at Townsend, Vt., July 13, 1846, aged two years and 11 months

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Within border of type ornaments.

Lines written on the death of Frederick Francis Bullard, who died September 15th, 1838. Aged 21 1/2 months. Written for his mother

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Within border of type ornaments.

Lines written on the death of Frank Eaton, who died at Manchester, February 21, 1846, aged 18 years

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Within ornamental border, printed in two columns divided by double curvelinear line. At head of text: By a young lady. First line: Afflicted Friends, now called to pay.

Lines written on the death of Eleazer S. Parks: who died after a short sickness after visiting his friends

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Within ornamental border. At head of text: By a Friend.

Lines written on the death of Edward J. Emerson

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At head of text: By J.G.D.

Lines written on the death of Aaron Murray: who was drowned at Emery's Mills, June 27th, 1851, aged 17 years, 3 months, 24 days

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Printed on blue paper in two columns divided by double rule. Poem in 30 four-line stanzas.

Lines written on the cover of an old Bible: at the time when many banks stopped payment

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Printed in two columns divided by single line within border of type ornament sections. Poem in 22 four-line stanzas. At end of text within border: The end--D.H. printed for F.H., 1857.

Lines written on reading an account of the execution of Stephen M. Clark

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Headbands at head and end. At head of text: By a young man of Salem. At end of text: G.

Lines written on hearing of the premature death of Sylvester Ridge, of Bensalem Township, Bucks County, Pa., who died Sept. 5, 1840, aged 21 years

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Pages [2] and [3] blank. Within border of type ornaments (bundles) printed in two columns divided by single line.

Lines written on hearing of the death of little Willie Newman, Fairport, N.Y. Who died two years after the death of his mother

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Pages [2-4] blank. Within mourning border. At head of text: Inscribed to the bereaved father. At end of text: Janesville, Wis., Nov. 25, 1862. Owner identification on p. [3]: Mrs. M.J. Paschall, Osleola, Clarke Co., Iowa.

Lines written in memory of their little boy, and dedicated to Mr. A.H. and Mrs. V. Garland

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By E.W.G. Within border of type ornament sections with ornamental corners. Poem in eleven four-line stanzas. At end of text: Washington, Oct. 25th, 1855.

Lines written impromptu, and affectionately: inscribed to M.M. Moore, of Lancaster, Penn., (who lost his sight in California, in 1857)

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by his old friend, Rev. C. Hartley, Ashland, O. Within ornamental border.

Lines written for the United States telegraph, on the death of Mrs. Jackson

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Elegy in nine stanzas; first lines: She is gone! and the Seraphs of endless life/ Have sung her welcome to the shore. At end of text: B. Rachel Jackson died at the Hermitage on Dec. 22, 1828. The United States telegraph, published at Washington, D.C. by Duff Green, first reported the news of her death in the issue of Jan. 7, 1829. Printed on silk. Printed area, including mourning border of type ornaments, measures 27.2 x 14.5 cm. Not in Shoemaker.

Lines written for the silver wedding of Col. & Mrs. A.D. Hatch: May 1, 1863

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Page [4] blank. Printed in purple within single-line border with ornamental corners on pages [1]-[3] Poem in six four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of poem: B.P.S. Boston, May 1, 1863.

Lines written for the farewell testimonial to Rev. Olympia Brown, September 28, 1869

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Pages [1,4] blank. Within single line border with corner ornaments.

Lines written for the Dorchester Second Parish Sabbath School: and sung at their celebration, Fast-day evening, April 7, 1831

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Within ornamental border.

Lines written for and read at the funeral services of Frederic Fessenden Thayer, January 15th, 1881

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by Rev. M.J. Savage. Page [4] blank.

Lines written expressly for the occasion of the burning of the Mortgage Deed by the Odd Fellows Building Association, Inc. ... in the city of Providence, R.I. ... Nov. 11, 1909

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Tune: America.

Lines written by Perry Davis, for his Sabbath school scholars

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Page [4] blank.

Lines written by Mrs. L. Maria Child, and sung at the Music Hall, on the 26th National Anti-Slavery Subscription Anniversary, Jan. 25, 1860

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Tune: Hebron.

Lines written by Mrs. Henry Lee on the death of Baldwin Hart: who for many years was superintendent of the Sunday School connected with the First Congregational Church of Madison and recited by Master Timothy J. Lee at the Sunday School concert held April 30th, 1865

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At end of text: A.D. Lee.

Lines written by Dexter Smith: and read by Miss Margaret Anglin, of Charles Frohman's Empire Theatre Company of New York, on the occasion of the last performance ever given in the Boston Museum, on Monday, June 1, 1903, prior to the demolition of the building

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A tribute to managers, actresses and actors associated with the Boston Museum playhouse, founded by Moses Kimball. At end of text: Alfred Mudge & Son, Printers, Boston. First line: Ring down the final curtain. Stay! A word.

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