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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In Flanders' fields

In Flanders' fields

Brown University

by Lieut.-Col. John McCrae, Canadian Expeditionary Forces. Printed on heavy paper. At end of text: Copyright November, 1918.

In Flanders fields: an answer

Poem answers call of Allied dead in John McCrae's poem In Flanders fields with promise to keep faith and fight for freedom. Poem answers call of Allied dead in John McCrae's poem In Flanders fields with promise to keep faith and fight for freedom. by R.W. Lillard. Postcard printed in black on white within border of type ornaments. Initial block. Poem in two stanzas. At end of text within lower border: Courtesy of The New York Evening Post. Poem also published under title: America's answer. Publication date suggested because of references in poem to U.S. entrance into World War I.

In Flanders fields

In Flanders fields

Brown University

Title from first line. Poetry, within ornamental border, superimposed on colored reproduction of landscape painting with grave markers and poppies, initialed H.Z.T.[?] with notation "Words by Lieut. Coln. McCrae" Matted broadside with brief history of poem and author pasted onto verso "Proceeds from the sale of these pictures donated to War Relief. - Mrs. John C. Tappin, 66 Broadway."

In Flanders fields

In Flanders fields

Brown University

By Lieut. Col. John McCrae, Canadian Expeditionary Forces. Within border of type ornaments. At end of second poem information about McCrae and Lowenstein. Publication date from Library of Congress stamp on Brown University copy.

In exile

In exile

Brown University

Page [2] blank. Within single line border. Page [4]: Written for private circulation only, and read at Tabor's Farm reunion dinner, ... One hundred copies have been printed ..

In due season we shall reap

Printed in red and black on heavy white paper in postcard format; rubricated initial block. Poem. At end of text: Copyrighted 1907 Dr. Hillson.

In Cuzco

In Cuzco

Brown University

Poetry. Tan paper printed in red-brown and black. At end of poem: James Scully Peru X.73. "Limited edition of 250 copies." First line: Something they had to celebrate.

In Cuzco

In Cuzco

Brown University

Poetry. Tan paper printed in red-brown and black. At end of poem: James Scully Peru X.73. "Limited edition of 250 copies." First line: Something they had to celebrate.

In childhood days

In childhood days

Brown University

At end of text: Dedicated to Alice Gertrude Duggan of Connecticut, beloved of all, by William Kimberley Palmer. Chicopee, Massachusetts, U.S.A. December 1932 A.D. Poem in sixteen lines.

In Boston city there lived a maid

Within ornamental border. First line same as title. Five songs beginning with: In Boston city there lived a maid (First line)

In Bethlehem was born a babe. He saw

On handmade paper with deckled edges. Manuscript poem in two three-line stanzas. Title from first line. At end of text drawing in colored pencil of Nativity scene initialed in lower right corner E.C.S.[?] Brown University copy signed Beatrice; other similar poems from 1940s at Brown signed Beatrice on verso and B. N. on recto. B. N. lived in Massachusetts in the 1940s. Artist may be E. C. Spiero[?] who illustrated Nowell! God sends the mantled snow, by B. N. (Brown University copy HB33346 MA) Date from notation on Brown University copy.

In beautiful Montpelier

In beautiful Montpelier

Brown University

Edith Flint Keeler. French-fold; printed on double page in white on dark blue ground on white paper. On page [1] uncaptioned illustration of Vermont State House, signed: P.H. Thomas, 1934. Title from first line of poem in five lines on page [3] On page [2] prose information about State House.

In an old house beneath o'erhanging trees

Printed in in sepia calligraphy on tan card stock. Reproduction of photograph of entrance hall of house at left of poem. Title from first line. Poem in two four-line stanzas. At end of text: Eugene and Willie Murphey, Augusta, Georgia, 1936.

In a pout

In a pout

Brown University

Printed on greenish paper. Poem in four eight-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

In a country without a chance

Issued in postcard format. Illustration of U.S. flag in each. Within border with corner. At end of text below short single line: Copyrighted 1916. Published by Max K. Walker, El Paso, Texas.

In a country without a chance

Issued in postcard format. Illustration of U.S. flag in each. Within border with corner. At end of text below short single line: Copyrighted 1916. Published by Max K. Walker, El Paso, Texas.

In a country without a chance

Issued in postcard format. Illustration of U.S. flag in each. Within border with corner. At end of text below short single line: Copyrighted 1916. Published by Max K. Walker, El Paso, Texas.

In a college classroom

In a college classroom

Brown University

Printed on double leaves. Printed on blue paper. Colophon at end on p. [4]: Bread Loaf Folder / Bread Loaf School of English / Middlebury, Vermont. First line: Dear, stranger souls who for an hour.