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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Kennedy's Golden Rod Biscuit

Broadsheet printed on glossy card stock. On recto colored illustration of goldenrod flowers and cookie, with advertising text printed in black, red and yellow. Poem on verso printed in brown in two columns. Date from internal evidence.

Kelly, the pirate: and Mistress Goose

Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. At center of title cut of sailing ship. At end of text: Printed and sold, wholesale and retail, by J. M'Cleland, 285 Water-St. Joseph M'Cleland used this address from 1824 to 1829.

Keeps growing

Keeps growing

Brown University

John M. Bennett. Printed on pale green paper with lines of text running in different directions. Place of publication and publisher information from donor.

Keeps growing

Keeps growing

Brown University

John M. Bennett. Printed on pale green paper with lines of text running in different directions. Place of publication and publisher information from donor.

Keep the home-fires burning

Broadside folded to create [3] pages. Text of three World War I songs, one on each page. Place and date of publication from ms. notation on Brown University copy.

Keep on singing: "Let us have a singing, smiling, united people."

Broadsheet folded to create [8] pages. Includes words of 52 numbered patriotic and popular songs, beginning with The star-spangled banner and ending with The Long, long trail; no. 51 is Down the trail to home, sweet home. Suggested publication date because latest copyright date mentioned is 1920.

Keep on singing: "Let us have a singing, smiling, united people."

Broadsheet folded to create [8] pages. Includes words of 52 numbered patriotic and popular songs, beginning with The star-spangled banner and ending with The Long, long trail; no. 51 is Hand in hand again. Suggested publication date because latest copyright date mentioned is 1919.

Keep on

Keep on

Brown University

Printed in green within gold single-line border on heavy cream paper in postcard format. Poem in eight lines. At end of text: Selected. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Keep on

Keep on

Brown University

Printed in green within gold single-line border on heavy cream paper in postcard format. Poem in eight lines. At end of text: Selected. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Kathleen Mavourneen

Kathleen Mavourneen

Brown University

Within border of type ornament sections. At head of title: 30. At head of title of second song: 31. Text of two love songs. At end of text below lower border: E. Nason & Co. Song Publishers, 120 Fulton Street, New Yor[k] Entered under title rather than author of first song. Not in Wolf, Amer. song sheets. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Katherine of the plains

Katherine of the plains

Brown University

Poem in two four-line stanzas and one six-line stanza. Type-signed at end of poem: William Kimberley Palmer. Chicopee, Massachusetts U.S.A. June 1929 A.D.

Katharine Ogie: together with Billy and Nancy, and Sweet Poll of Plymouth

Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by single broken line. At left of title wood-engraving of woman wearing dress and three-cornered hat, holding powder horn and musket; variant of Reilly 1554, identified as representing the female soldier Hannah Snell. Printed area: 31 x 18 cm. Typeface, wood-engraving and design suggest E. Russell as printer. "Sweet Poll of Plymouth" is ascribed to John O'Keeffe by Thomas L. Philbrick in "Studies in bibliography: papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virgina", v. 9, 1957, p. 255-258. Not in Shipton & Mooney or Shaw & Shoemaker. Ezekiel Russell is known to have moved to Boston in 1781 where he died in 1796; his wife continued his business.

Kate and her horns!

Kate and her horns!

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Poetry in 20 four-line stanzas printed in two columns divided line of type ornaments. Two cuts (on left woman and landscape, on right male and female caricature of dogs) flanking centered title. Same as broadside with Coverly's imprint.

Kate and her horns!

Kate and her horns!

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Poetry in 20 four-line stanzas printed in two columns divided line of type ornaments. Two cuts (on left woman and landscape, on right male and female caricature of dogs) flanking centered title. Same as broadside with Coverly's imprint.

Kate and her horns!

Kate and her horns!

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Poetry in 20 four-line stanzas printed in two columns divided line of type ornaments. Two cuts (on left woman and landscape, on right male and female caricature of dogs) flanking centered title. Same as broadside with Coverly's imprint.

Kate and her horns!

Kate and her horns!

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Poetry in 20 four-line stanzas printed in two columns divided line of type ornaments. Two cuts (on left woman and landscape, on right male and female caricature of dogs) flanking centered title. Same as broadside with Coverly's imprint.

Kate and her horns!

Kate and her horns!

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Poetry in 20 four-line stanzas printed in two columns divided line of type ornaments. Two cuts (on left woman and landscape, on right male and female caricature of dogs) flanking centered title. Same as broadside with Coverly's imprint.

Kate and her horns!

Kate and her horns!

Brown University

Poetry printed in two columns divided by line of advertising between rules of type ornaments: Printed and sold wholesale and retail at No. 25, High Street, Providence, R. Island. Above address was listed in the Providence Directory for Henry Trumbull from 1826 through 1836. This edition not in Ford or Shaw and Shoemaker.

Kate and her horns

Kate and her horns

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments Poem in 20 four-line stanzas Hay Broadsds Harris copy: Fold damage; lower corners missing; upper edge trimmed in jagged outline.

Kate and her horns

Kate and her horns

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. Poem in 20 four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Kate and her horns

Kate and her horns

Brown University

Poetry printed in two columns divided by line of garland type ornaments. Wood-engraving of horrified man facing goat centered in title. At end of text in lower margin: Printed and sold by Nathaniel Coverly, Jun. Corner of Theatre-Alley, Milk-Street--Boston. Coverly was listed at above address from 1810 to 1824. This edition not in Ford or Shaw/Shoemaker.