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.
Broadsheet printed on heavy paper in two columns. At head of first column on recto colored illustration of head and forepart of kitten; at head of second column illustration of kitten's hind end; on verso illustrations of end of a Clark thread spool and a J. & P. Coats spool. Poem on recto with instructions for making toy by cutting out pictures and pasting on ends of spool; further instructions on verso with advertisement for thread.
Soldier addresses his mother as he prepares to die. Soldier addresses his mother as he prepares to die. Within border of type ornament sections with ornamental corners. First line same as title. At head of title: No. 1060. At head of text: Words by Letty C. Lord. Music by Geo. F. Root. Text of song in three eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus. At end of text below rule: Published and sold at wholesale by Horace Partridge, ... No. 27 Hanover Street, Boston. Partridge used this address between 1860 and 1870. Entered under title rather than author. This edition not in Wolf, Amer. song sheets.
Soldier addresses his mother as he prepares to die. Soldier addresses his mother as he prepares to die. Within border of type ornament sections with ornamental corners. First line same as title. At head of title: No. 1060. At head of text: Words by Letty C. Lord. Music by Geo. F. Root. Text of song in three eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus. At end of text below rule: Published and sold at wholesale by Horace Partridge, ... No. 27 Hanover Street, Boston. Partridge used this address between 1860 and 1870. Entered under title rather than author. This edition not in Wolf, Amer. song sheets.
Poetry and prose. Printed in three columns divided by single lines; center column wider than others. Title from title of first song. Words of six songs in first and third columns; in center column prose advertisement for the Calo Tea and Coffee Pot. At end of text: The music of the foregoing six beautiful songs is ... for sale by Oliver Ditson & Co., 277 Washington Street. Place of publication suggested because Calo pot sold in Boston and Ditson Co. in Boston; date because song entitled In peace again refers to end of Civil War.
Poetry and prose. Printed in three columns divided by single lines; center column wider than others. Title from title of first song. Words of six songs in first and third columns; in center column prose advertisement for the Calo Tea and Coffee Pot. At end of text: The music of the foregoing six beautiful songs is ... for sale by Oliver Ditson & Co., 277 Washington Street. Place of publication suggested because Calo pot sold in Boston and Ditson Co. in Boston; date because song entitled In peace again refers to end of Civil War.
Poetry. Printed on cream paper in facsimile of author's handwriting; colored deckled lower edge. Facsimile of signature at end of poem: Ed Ochester. Imprint information from dealer.
Printed in two columns divided by ruled line of advertising with type ornaments at end: Sold, wholesale and retail, by L. Deming, No. 62 Hanover Street, 2d door from Friend Street, Boston. Leonard Deming's establishment is listed at the above address from 1832 to 1837.
Poetry in ten four-line stanzas, each with refrain "Great King Cotton," printed within ornamental border. Type-signed at end: N.G.R., Baltimore, Jan. 1, 1862.
Two ballads. Caption title. Leonard Deming was a trader and bookseller in Boston from 1828 to 1840 and was at this address, also given as corner of Merchant Row and Market Square, from 1829-1831. Printed in two columns, separated by line of advertising between vertical rules: Sold, wholesale and retail, by L. Deming, No. 1, south side of Faneuil Hall, Boston; type ornaments at each end of line. Printed area measures 20.1 x 16.9 cm. Not in Shoemaker or Checklist Amer. imprints.
Broadsheet printed on card stock. Title from first line. On recto colored illustration of sailor addressing captain; on verso advertisement beginning: Higgins' German Laundry Soap is the best. Date from internal evidence.
Printed on ivory pebbled paper within gold border; includes information about poet with date of Complete poems, 1930. Acquired from Canadian dealer William Hoffer in 1993.
Song about Baptist summer encampment at Lake Keuka, N.Y. Song about Baptist summer encampment at Lake Keuka, N.Y. To be sung to the tune: Marching through Georgia. Text of song in four four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Behold! behold its limpid waters clear. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
