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.
Page [2] blank. Title on page [3] On page [1] at head of text reproduction of photograph by M. Gibbon of man on hilltop looking out over landscape. Text on page [1] begins: The place of vision used by the Indians in the old days and ends: Lake Windermere in the distance. Bliss Carman. Photograph by Murray Gibbon. On page [3] poem in five five-line stanzas, type-signed: Bliss Carman. On page [4]: From Mitchell Kennerley, Christmas, 1922.
At end of text: Gertrude Stein, Belignin, 1939. An announcement of the engagement of Louise Antoinette Krause and Robert Bartlett Haas, whose names are printed on the verso. Poem mentions Louise and Bobolink as engaged couple. Printed on blue paper.
Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. Poem in 13 numbered four-line stanzas. Suggeted range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Printed in three columns. At left of title cut of hanging man; at right of title cut of two coffins, of which the smaller is inscribed: Mrs. S.Y. Original dimensions not known. Poem in 30 four-line stanzas. Suggested publication date from internal evidence.
By Capt. Daniel Eldridge. Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments; border of type ornaments at top and bottom. Printed area measures: 28.1 x 14.2 cm. Poem in twenty numbered four-line stanzas. Not in Shaw and Shoemaker.
Celebrates monument to Massachusetts soldiers killed in the Baltimore riot Apr. 19, 1861. Celebrates monument to Massachusetts soldiers killed in the Baltimore riot Apr. 19, 1861. Text within ornamental border, printed in two columns divided by double line. Cut of monument at head of first column. At head of text: Composer, George G.B. DeWolfe, W.P. To be sung to the tune: Sword of Bunker Hill. Poem in eight eight-line stanzas.
Within border of type ornaments, printed in one and three columns. At head of text prose introduction, signed G.A.W., beginning: In the transmission of a knowledge of many of the incidents ..
Within mourning border. Poem in ten four-line stanzas. At end of text within border: Composed and sold by Arthur E. Belyea. Suggested publication date from date of shipwreck.
Poetry in twenty-four four-line stanzas printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. Printed area measures: 24.7 x 15.6 cm. Place of publication suggested by notation on broadside; type face and type ornaments suggest late 18th or very early 19th century publication. Not in Evans or Bristol.
by David Spaulding--late of Chelmsford, deceased. Printed in two columns. Original dimensions unknown. Printed area measures: 23.4 x 14.7 cm. Not in Ford, Bristol or Checklist of Amer. imprints to 1829. Suggested publication date from internal evidence; type face suggests a late 18th or early 19th century date. Another edition of poem (Brown University copy HB14478) is attributed to "an old gentleman who died very suddenly in Cornish."
Composed by Mr. Austin J. Kyte. Printed in three and four columns divided by double lines. At center portrait in ornamental frame captioned: Austin J. Kyte. Above portrait prose account of Kyte's accident headed: Read and reflect. Author statement in full at end of text below double rule: Composed by Mr. Austin J. Kyte, the handless vender of poems, Girardville, Schuylkill Co., Pa., late of Philadelphia, Pa. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence; Kyte's accident occurred in 1878.
Within double line border, printed in two columns. At end of text: For sale at only two cents each, by Byron DeWolfe, No. 12 Ridge street, Nashua, N.H.
Printed in three columns. Mounted on cardboard. In center column: A few words to the reader. The public will doubtless remember Poet Byron DeWolfe of Nashua, N.H. who passed away ... I wish it to be distincly [sic] understood that these verses were composed by me Byron DeWolfe, through the mediumship of Miss Lillie ..
Printed in two columns with cut of ship at left of title. At end of text: Finis. Boston: Printed and sold over against the prison. Not in Evans, Bristol, Wegelin, or Ford.
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