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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Libratto of forest festival

Text for songs for a three part performance. Printed in two columns divided by rule; beginning with "Grand opening chorus", "Away, away!" with first line: Away! away! the morning freshly breaking. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Libratto of forest festival

Text for songs for a three part performance. Printed in two columns divided by rule; beginning with "Grand opening chorus", "Away, away!" with first line: Away! away! the morning freshly breaking. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Liberty's flag

Liberty's flag

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Issued as printed postcard. Contains advertising, poem and background information on the Liberty statue and bell, U.S. flag.

Liberty's flag

Liberty's flag

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Issued as printed postcard. Contains advertising, poem and background information on the Liberty statue and bell, U.S. flag.

Liberty's bell

Liberty's bell

Brown University

Poem. Ascribed to Madge Morris Wagner; cf. letter reproduced on p. [1] Includes text of undated letter from William O. McDowell, chairman, to the committee (p. [1]), also of letter from Harr Wagner, superintendent of schools, San Diego, Calif., to McDowell, March 5, 1893 (p. [2]); at head of text of second letter: Editor's Office. The golden era. Madge Morris Wagner. Includes references to the assassinations of Presidents Lincoln and Garfield. First line: "There's a legend told of a far-off land".

Liberty's bell

Liberty's bell

Brown University

By Mrs. Madge Morris Wagner, San Diego, Cal. Poetry. Includes references to the assassinations of Presidents Lincoln and Garfield.

Liberty!

Liberty!

Brown University

Printed area: 16 x 26 cm. Announces a meeting in favor of free suffrage in Rhode Island. At end of text: Boston, Wednesday, May 18, 1842. First line: The Friends of Equal Rights are.

Liberty!

Liberty!

Brown University

Printed area: 16 x 26 cm. Announces a meeting in favor of free suffrage in Rhode Island. At end of text: Boston, Wednesday, May 18, 1842. First line: The Friends of Equal Rights are.

Liberty, a power among the nations: No. 4

Printed in red and blue within red and blue double line border. Prints two selections from the Columbiad; 42 lines beginning "From slavery then your rising realms to save" and 15 lines beginning "Purge all privations from your liberal code". At end of text: New York, June 10, 1861.

Liberty--all hail!: No. 3

Printed in red and blue within red and blue double line border. At head of text: Joel Barlow, in the eighth book of his Columbiad .. At end of text: New York, June 10, 1861. Quotations from Barlow's Columbiad attacking American slavery and foretelling punishment, with obvious application to the Civil War.

Liberty Tree

Liberty Tree

Brown University

To be sung to the tune: Gods of the Greeks. Text of song in four eight-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and date of death of John Fellows.

Liberty songs

Liberty songs

Brown University

Broadsheet folded to create [6] pages. Contains text of ten patriotic American and European songs, beginning with The star spangled banner and including Rule, Britannia!, and translations of the Marseillaise and the War hymn of Garibaldi. At head of text: Published for the Liberty Choruses of Connecticut by the Connecticut State Council of Defense. Publication date suggested because of inclusion of songs of World War I allies.

Liberty or death

Liberty or death

Brown University

Within double line border. Poem in seven numbered four-line stanzas.

Liberty Bell in California

Page [2-3] blank. At end of title: photograph of Liberty Bell mounted on flower-covered float. Printed in two columns. At head of text: Dedicated to Liberty Bell (Mary Adair Aubury) At end of text: Liberty Bell, America's most sacred relic ... San Francisco, July 17, 1915, enroute to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

Liberty and equality

Liberty and equality

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. At end of text: Composed and written by Joseph the dreamer. April, 1812.

Liberty

Liberty

Brown University

At head of title: To the Air of Tipperary.