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.
This collection is part of Brown University Library, hosted by Brown University.

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Karma repair kit: items 1-4

by Richard Brautigan. Mimeographed copy. Text superimposed in faint smudged outlines. At end of text: The Communication Company U.P.S. First line: Get enough food to eat.

Kansas

Kansas

Brown University

Within ornamental border.

Kairow the ladies' tailor

Advertising brochure for Rochester tailor includes poetry praising his skill. Advertising brochure for Rochester tailor includes poetry praising his skill. Printed in purple on glossy paper within single-line border. Title from first lines on page [2] On page [1] cut of woman wearing hat, jacket, vest and ankle-length skirt, with caption at left beginning: This suit we will cut ...; on page [4] reproduction of photograph of man's head and shoulders (probably Mr. Kairow) Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Kai

Kai

Brown University

Howard McCord. At head of text: for Gary, Masa, Kai. At end of text: A free poem for Seattle, May 1971. Arranged by Toothpick, Lisbon and the Orcas Islands.

Kai

Kai

Brown University

Howard McCord. At head of text: for Gary, Masa, Kai. At end of text: A free poem for Seattle, May 1971. Arranged by Toothpick, Lisbon and the Orcas Islands.

Juvenile holiday!: All the children who do now, or ever did, or ever intend to belong to Mr. Charles W. Rockwell's Sa...

Subtitle continues: At the School Room, at 3 o'clock, on the afternoon of the Fourth of July, to celebrate the day with joy and praise. Contains texts of three hymns, printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line. At end of text below double rule: M.B. Young, Print. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence; Mary had a little lamb was published in 1830.