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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Von der Creuzigung Jesu Christi!

To be sung to the tune: Wo bleiben meine Sinnen? Printed in two columns within border of type ornaments. Wood-engraving of half-naked female blowing trumpet at head of text; wood-engraving of Mercury holding caduceus accompanied by winged female and Cupid at end of text, inscribed "Dusoschail[?] f.". Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Virginia, my Virginia: dedicated to Governor E. Lee Trinkle

by Mrs. George H. Tichenor. Poetry and prose. At head of title prose passage beginning: Washington, John Marshall and Adams Family connections. Poem in four eight-line stanzas, followed by prose account of genealogies of Smith and Marshall families. Place of publication suggested by ms. presentation inscription by author's husband, giving his address in New Orleans, on Brown University copy. Suggested range of publication dates between election of dedicatee as Virginia governor and date of his death.

Virginia Graham invites you to

Printed in blue on heavy white paper in shape of cup on saucer. Six-line poem ends: Help elect a native son--Ken Keating. At end of text: Friday, October 9, 1964 at 10:00 a.m. Grand Ballroom of the Hotel Astor, 45th Street and Broadway, New York City. Campaign literature for New York Senator Kenneth Keating.

Virginia

Virginia

Brown University

Pages [3] + [4] blank.

Violent storm

Violent storm

Brown University

Within mourning border printed in two columns divided by heavy black line. At head of sheet above upper border cuts of 15 coffins. Within border at head of title (placed horizontally) cut of building with severed steeple. Contains prose account of the destruction caused by a hurricane in Boston and vicinity, followed by: A poem on the late hurricane. Broadside could have originated from E. Russell's print shop.

Victory

Victory

Brown University

Cover title. Page [4] blank. Printed in blue on white cardstock. Illustration of statue "Winged Victory of Samothrace" below title on page [1]

Victory

Victory

Brown University

Cover title. Page [4] blank. Printed in blue on white cardstock. Illustration of statue "Winged Victory of Samothrace" below title on page [1]

Victory

Victory

Brown University

Cover title. Page [4] blank. Printed in blue on white cardstock. Illustration of statue "Winged Victory of Samothrace" below title on page [1]

Victory

Victory

Brown University

Printed in two columns. At end of text: M.E. Codman, September 26, 1914, Klein Laufenkery.