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 by Dexter Smith: and read by Miss Margaret Anglin, of Charles Frohman's Empire Theatre Company of New Y...

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.

Lines written

Lines written

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by Mrs. Ellen E. Jack ... widow of Capt. Charles E. Jack, of the Farragut Fleet, U.S. Navy, in honor of General William J. Palmer's gift of the High Drive to the city of Colorado Springs. At end of text: [Author of "The Fate of the Fairy ... "

Lines to the New Year

Lines to the New Year

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Poem in four six-line stanzas within border of type ornaments. Printed area measures: 16.4 x 8.5 cm. At end of text, within lower border: Sheffield, 1869. By Isaac Bacon.

Lines to my piano

Lines to my piano

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Pages 1, 4 blank. At end of text: From "All in a garden fair and other verse"

Lines to a Copperhead!

Lines to a Copperhead!

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by S.C.C. Printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line. At head of text prose introduction beginning: An editor in southern Illinois was accused by a brother editor with being a Copperhead. Poem in nine eight-line stanzas. At end of text: Army of the Tennessee, April 15, 1863. [Copy-right applied for.]

Lines to a child

Lines to a child

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by Janet Lewis. Poetry. In upper left-hand corner: From The magazine, a literary journal (Vol. 1, No. 2, Jan., 1934) published by The Magazine Corporation, at 522 California Bank Building, Beverly Hills, California. First line: Dear child, relinquish your rich day. Originally published in: Magazine, 1934.

Lines to a child

Lines to a child

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by Janet Lewis. Poetry. In upper left-hand corner: From The magazine, a literary journal (Vol. 1, No. 2, Jan., 1934) published by The Magazine Corporation, at 522 California Bank Building, Beverly Hills, California. First line: Dear child, relinquish your rich day. Originally published in: Magazine, 1934.

Lines to a child

Lines to a child

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by Janet Lewis. Poetry. In upper left-hand corner: From The magazine, a literary journal (Vol. 1, No. 2, Jan., 1934) published by The Magazine Corporation, at 522 California Bank Building, Beverly Hills, California. First line: Dear child, relinquish your rich day. Originally published in: Magazine, 1934.