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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Lilacs for papa

Lilacs for papa

Brown University

At head of text: (Original) At end of text: Harford, June 12, 1885.

Likewise we do not care to tell

1 broadsheet printed on tan card stock. On verso advertisement for Sea Foam, apparently a kind of baking-powder. On recto illustration of costumed man with large can of Sea Foam. Title from first line of poem. Date from internal evidence.

Like that dying woman in Mexico

Poetry. Printed on reddish-brown paper; publisher, series and author's name printed vertically at left of poem Eight small cuts of scorpions in brown Title from first line

Like that dying woman in Mexico

Poetry. Printed on reddish-brown paper; publisher, series and author's name printed vertically at left of poem Eight small cuts of scorpions in brown Title from first line

Like that dying woman in Mexico

Poetry. Printed on reddish-brown paper; publisher, series and author's name printed vertically at left of poem Eight small cuts of scorpions in brown Title from first line

Lignum vitae

Lignum vitae

Brown University

by Barbara Howes. Page [4] blank. Printed in red and black. Cover title. "Christmas 1958." On page [3] poem in five five-line stanzas.

Light and heat, science and love

Poem in three eight-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: T.L. Harris. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Light a cigarette and the bus comes

Laurie Schneider. Printed on heavy pale gray paper. Title from first line. Poem in 21 lines. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Lifts objects: meters

Lifts objects: meters

Brown University

John M. Bennett. Two lines of text printed vertically. At center illustration of group of meters resembling automobile speedometers. Place of publication and publisher information from donor.

Lifting stone: a painting by Katharine Sturges

May Sarton. Printed in red on ivory paper. At end of text: May Sarton/ Christmas-1955. Place of publication suggested by May Sarton's residency in Cambridge and type comparisons of broadsides. Poem. Listed in Witter Bynner (& friends), no. 134.

Life's problem

Life's problem

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Text on p. [1] within decorative border.

Life's call

Life's call

Brown University

Printed in black, blue and red; border of type ornaments on page [1] Cut of soldier on horseback holding American flag in upper left corner, page [1] At end of text on page [1]: Francois Deighton. 9-30-17. Copyright by Dr. F.E. Dayton ... Rock Island, Ill.

Life's book

Life's book

Brown University

observed by Stanley Carter. Printed in purple on glossy white paper within double-line border. At upper right illustration of open book; at lower left illustration of joined hands; at lower right a cross. Poem. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Life, not death

Life, not death

Brown University

1 broadsheet. With floral border framing upper half of text. Printed in green.

Life, not death

Life, not death

Brown University

1 broadsheet. With floral border framing upper half of text. Printed in green.

Life, not death

Life, not death

Brown University

1 broadsheet. With floral border framing upper half of text. Printed in green.

Life, hopes, destiny

Life, hopes, destiny

Brown University

Within double line border. Newspaper clipping tipped on at head of title.

Life, hopes, destiny

Life, hopes, destiny

Brown University

Within double line border. Newspaper clipping tipped on at head of title.

Life-lines

Life-lines

Brown University

Within single line border with ornamental corners.