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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In memoriam

In memoriam

Brown University

Religious poem about a woman's death. Religious poem about a woman's death. Poem in three eight-line stanzas. At end of poem: L.E.A. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

In memoriam

In memoriam

Brown University

Within mourning border. At head of text; In December, 1909, The Fishing Sloop, Georgiana, sailed out of Canarsie--with its crew and Mate Sims Johnson, to whom this poem is dedicated by the family.

In memoriam

In memoriam

Brown University

Broadsheet; poem printed on verso of ten dollar Confederate bill, actual or facsimile. At head of text: Respectfully dedicated to the holders of Confederate treasury notes. Author's name not on item.

In memoriam

In memoriam

Brown University

Within mourning border. Extracts from the obituaries in the Gazette and the Enquirer of sisters Emma Trafton Henderson and Fannie Lawrence Henderson who died Dec. 4 and 15, 1868. Includes poetic excerpts and at end poem in five four-line stanzas beginning: The light of their young lives went down.

In memoriam

In memoriam

Brown University

At head of text: Died.-In West Stockbridge, Mass., March 9th, 1875, Stella, daughter of L.S. and Mary E. Nye, aged 24 years and 5 months.

In memoriam

In memoriam

Brown University

By C.D. Bradlee. ; Read at the funeral of Winslow Gay, September 7, 1877. Poem. Also commemorates George Henry Gay, Jr., who died on June 12, 1877. Winslow Gay died on September 5.

In Lynchburg

In Lynchburg

Brown University

Poem on post card. Poem on post card. Date from internal source.

In luck

In luck

Brown University

No. 176 of untitled series.

In loving remembrance of Susan H. Pollard, died Dec. 2, 1886: Aged 86 years

Printed in gold on heavy black pasteboard within ornamental border. Name, death date and age of deceased within oblong ivy wreath; two small winged children at bottom center; at head of title in separate border four lines of verse beginning: There is no Death! what seems so is transition. Below ivy wreath two four-line stanzas of hymn.