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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Lamplighter's address

Lamplighter's address

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments. Illustration of lamplighter with in border at left of text.

Lamp lighter

Lamp lighter

Brown University

Printed in purple on glossy white paper. At head of title illustration of two cherubs. Poem in two four-line stanzas. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.

Lamp lighter

Lamp lighter

Brown University

Printed in purple on glossy white paper. At head of title illustration of two cherubs. Poem in two four-line stanzas. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.

Lamp lighter

Lamp lighter

Brown University

Printed in purple on glossy white paper. At head of title illustration of two cherubs. Poem in two four-line stanzas. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.

Lamarck on buggery

Lamarck on buggery

Brown University

Author's name not on item. Publication date suggested because first poem is dated at end: 16 I 73.

Lady Washington's lamentation: and The liberty Tree

Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by single rule; first column in smaller type. At end of text: Sold at the East end of Faneuil Hall, Boston. Leonard Deming used this address from 1810 to 1828.

Lady Washington's lamentation: and The liberty Tree

Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by single rule; first column in smaller type. At end of text: Sold at the East end of Faneuil Hall, Boston. Leonard Deming used this address from 1810 to 1828.

Lady Washington's lamentation: and The liberty Tree

Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by single rule; first column in smaller type. At end of text: Sold at the East end of Faneuil Hall, Boston. Leonard Deming used this address from 1810 to 1828.

Ladies' choice

Ladies' choice

Brown University

Poetry in 5 eight-line stanzas advertising bluing. Removed from scrapbook with imprints dated from 1880 through 1900.

Lacking Ichor

Lacking Ichor

Brown University

Richard & Barbara Outram. Poem. "Saint Valentine's Day 1974"

Lacking Ichor

Lacking Ichor

Brown University

Richard & Barbara Outram. Poem. "Saint Valentine's Day 1974"

Labyrinthine vertigo

Labyrinthine vertigo

Brown University

Poetry printed in red on red paper; lower edge deckled. Typesigned at end of text: Keith Waldrop. Colophon in lower margin:: A free poem from The Alternative Press, 4339 Avery, Detroit, Michigan. Publication date supplied by bookseller when acquired in 1971.

Labor songs

Labor songs

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Within ornamental border.

Labor songs

Labor songs

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Within ornamental border.

La pineta distrutta

La pineta distrutta

Brown University

Poetry with twelve line quotation from "Pulgatorio: Canto 28" at head. First published in newspaper in 1883. At end of text: T.W. Parsons.

La grippe

La grippe

Brown University

By Dr. Robert Wilson Blakeslee. Within gilded line border. At end of text: All rights reserved ... written Feb. 22, 1917, printed Mar. 12, 1917.

La cité de Québec à son Altesse Royale le Prince de Galles: Ode

composée par L. J. C. Fiset, écuyer, et publiée sous les auspices de la Cité par l'entremise de la Société Typographique de Québec. Printed on green silk in two columns divided by curvilinear line within border of type ornament sections. At head of title, above upper border, cut of plumed crown and garter, with scroll inscribed: Ich dien. Poem in 14 six-line stanzas in three sections headed: L'attente, L'arrivée and L'adieu. Date from date of Edward VII's visit to Canada as Prince of Wales.

La cité de Québec à son Altesse Royale le Prince de Galles: Ode

composée par L. J. C. Fiset, écuyer, et publiée sous les auspices de la Cité par l'entremise de la Société Typographique de Québec. Printed on green silk in two columns divided by curvilinear line within border of type ornament sections. At head of title, above upper border, cut of plumed crown and garter, with scroll inscribed: Ich dien. Poem in 14 six-line stanzas in three sections headed: L'attente, L'arrivée and L'adieu. Date from date of Edward VII's visit to Canada as Prince of Wales.

L' envoi

L' envoi

Brown University

Printed on gold paper.