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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Improvement of time

Improvement of time

Brown University

Within border of type ornament sections. Text at head of title continues: Granted to [blank] for diligence and attention to study, and good behaviour in school. [blank] Poem in two four-line stanzas. Colophon: Sold by N.S. Simpkins & Co. Court street, Boston. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Important state paper: "Extension."

Poetry and prose. To be sung to the tune: Jordan is a hard road to travel. Printed in two columns divided by a single line within border of type ornaments. Printed area: 27.1 x 20.2 cm. Humorous poem in twelve four-line stanzas. Date from general appearance of type and border. At head of text: Being a piece of the State Liquor Agency, which was blown by the late disastrous explosion into the State House, and from thence transferred to the Suffolk Jail .... Respectfully dedicated to the Massachusetts House of Representatives... First line: 'Tis conceded by all--and of course must be true.

Imperium in imperio

Imperium in imperio

Brown University

Poem predicts warm welcome from Canadians to "Louisa and the Lord of Lorne." Poem predicts warm welcome from Canadians to "Louisa and the Lord of Lorne." Pages [2] and [4] blank. Poem in six eight-line stanzas. Author's name not printed on item. Suggested publication date because poem was first published in 1878 when Princess Louise's husband became governor general of Canada.

Immortal Lucretia Mott

Immortal Lucretia Mott

Brown University

Fourteen-line poem. Type-signed at end of text: William Kimberley Palmer. Chicopee, Massachusetts U.S.A. August 1937.

Immortal Jan Ignace Paderewski

Poem in three stanzas of different length. At end of poem: Dedicated to Col. Edward Mandell House, the friend of Poland, by William Kimberley Palmer. Chicopee, Massachusetts U.S.A. March 1934, A.D.

Immortal

Immortal

Brown University

At end of text: A.J.B.

Immortal

Immortal

Brown University

At end of text: A.J.B.

Immortal

Immortal

Brown University

At end of text: A.J.B.

Immersion hydrothérapique

Broadsheet advertising card printed on recto in colors and gold, in verso in black on heavy paper. Title on recto superimposed on colored lithograph of boy pouring water from watering can on another boy. Below illustration on recto: S.D. Sollers & Co's fine shoes. On verso poem in two six-line stanzas advertising Sollers shoes, beginning: All tender young plants. Title on recto in French. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Immanuel

Immanuel

Brown University

Pages [2,4] blank. At head of text: God with us. At end of text: The Ministers Elm Park Church Christmas 1930.

Image of Albion sunlight: a poem

by Richard Mathews. Page [2] blank. Printed on ivory paper vertically folded. Poem in three three-line stanzas on page [3] Colophon on page [4]: This sheet was printed on an Albion once used at the Kelmscott Press. The title, decorations, and colophon were handset in Janson types originally designed by Nicholas Kis & the poem text in Eric Gill's Perpetua. Printed in an edition of 150 copies, January, 1975, at Kelmscott House, Upper Mall, Hammersmith, by kind permission of the William Morris Society. Konglomerati Press ....

Illustration of the Rumseller's just doom and final exit

Prints Latin quote with English translation, engraving and poem; all damning sellers of alcoholic beverages. Prints Latin quote with English translation, engraving and poem; all damning sellers of alcoholic beverages. Caption title. Text printed in black in one and two columns. Between text engraving of rumseller decending into hell, captioned: Engraved by a celebrated London artist. Possible range of dates suggested by internal evidence, e.g. subject matter and clothing.

Il giovane guerriero

Il giovane guerriero

Brown University

At end of text: Edoardo Petri. (Copyright, 1915, by G. Ricordi & Co., Inc.) Text in Italian.

II. The remembrance: To E.G.K

Illustration in blue of moon with bannerlike score underneath. At end of text: note re E.G.K.: In all likelihood, Edith Greenan Kuster. Publisher information from dealer. Poem.

II. The remembrance: To E.G.K

Illustration in blue of moon with bannerlike score underneath. At end of text: note re E.G.K.: In all likelihood, Edith Greenan Kuster. Publisher information from dealer. Poem.

II. The remembrance: To E.G.K

Illustration in blue of moon with bannerlike score underneath. At end of text: note re E.G.K.: In all likelihood, Edith Greenan Kuster. Publisher information from dealer. Poem.

If---for girls

If---for girls

Brown University

Printed in redand green within ornamental border on heavy paper. Poem in four eight-line stanzas imitating Kipling's If. In lower margin, below border: Copyright 1914.