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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If I could play the violin

Grace Sherwood. Pages [2] and [4] blank. French-fold; printed in red on double page. On page [1] uncaptioned drawing of woman wearing pointed hat and playing a violin. Caption title from first line of poem. Type-signed at end of poem: Grace Sherwood. One Two Three Waterman Street. Christmas - Nineteen thirty-six. Place of publication from Providence street name at end of poem.

If I but had a little coat

French-fold; printed on double page. Printed in blue and black on heavy cream paper. On page [1] uncaptioned illustration of child carrying bundle. Title from first line of poem on page [3] "The picture is by Hans Herzog .... The poem is from "Adoration," ... appearing in the collection Bow down in Jericho ...." Poem in three six-line stanzas. Suggested publication date from date of book.

If cookies could talk

If cookies could talk

Brown University

At head of text: Written to accompany a box of cookies sent to a Camp Lewis Liberty Boy.

If any little word of ours

Printed on heavy paper in postcard format. At left of text drawing of woman's head, signed: Chas. Luce. Title from first line. Poem in three eight-line stanzas.

If a girl like you loved a boy like me

Printed in red and green on heavy white paper in postcard format; text on recto in green, on verso in black. At head of text illustration of boy and girl. Words and music of song chorus. Name of author of lyrics not on item; music by Gus Edwards. "By permission of Gus Edwards Music Pub. Co. Copyright MCMVI"--Colophon. "No. 4600 Music Series"--Verso.

If

If

Brown University

Printed in red and black within red ornamental border on heavy paper; rubricated initial. Poem imitating Kipling's If in seven four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of poem: Maurine Hathaway.

If

If

Brown University

Printed in red and black within red ornamental border on heavy paper; rubricated initial. Poem imitating Kipling's If in seven four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of poem: Maurine Hathaway.

Idolatry established: 1 Kings 12:25-33

Printed in colors on recto, black on verso. Illustrations, on recto, include the golden calf and the town of Shechem. Sunday school lesson. Text of hymn on recto; on verso, lesson and quiz. In upper right corner on recto: July 12. 2. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Idealism

Idealism

Brown University

Pages [3] and [4] blank. At end of text: S.F.B.

Ida

Ida

Brown University

Within ornamental border.

I've worked eight hours this day

In each stanza someone lays down hod, razor, etc. after precisely eight hours. In each stanza someone lays down hod, razor, etc. after precisely eight hours. Text of song in five eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: For I've worked eight hours this day. At head of text, between type ornament sections: Written and composed by Felix McGlennon. At end of text below rule: [A.] W. Auner, Song Publisher, Philad'a, Pa. Entered under title rather than author. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence. Not in Wolf, Amer. song sheets.