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.
Broadsheet folded to create [6] pages. Within red and blue double-line border. Above title vignette of American eagle perched on shield, above motto: In God we trust and seven-line stanza beginning: "God bless our native land! At end of text within brackets: This exercise, with the original music, may be found in the "Centennial number of the Sunday School Times," June 17th.
Printed in red, yellow, gray and black on heavy paper, one in facsimile of handwriting. Issued wrapped in lettered blue-gray paper band sealed with round sticker. Title from paper band around cards.
Printed in black, red and yellow on heavy paper, one in calligraphy. Issued wrapped in paper band lettered in blue and sealed with round sticker. Title from paper band around cards.
Printed in red, yellow and black on heavy paper; some in calligraphy. Issued wrapped in paper band lettered in red and sealed with round sticker. Title from paper band around cards.
Broadsheet advertising card. On recto colored illustration of Eskimo family in front of igloo. Title from caption of illustration, in French; all other text in English. On verso three poems advertising Good-Will Soap. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Within double line border. At head of text: Song and chorus. Text of song in three eight-line stranzas and four-line chorus. At end of text: Words and music at Kimball's Music Rooms, Manchester, N.H. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Printed on blue paper with illus. of campus building on cover. At end of text: Mr. Frost's recollections are quoted in extracts, from a 1958 interview. Laid in facsimile of The Independent, vol. 44, no. 2292.
Bruce Bennett. Printed in gray and orange on heavy ivory paper with deckled lower edge in postcard format. Line of blazing-sun type ornaments below title. Poem in two four-line stanzas.
Printed in red and black on heavy paper in postcard format within wavy red border. At head of title reproduction of photograph of building captioned: The village smithy. Title from first line of six-line stanza. Author's name not on item. Place of publication suggested because Brown University copy acquired with other similar postcards with illustrations of Portland and surroundings. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Printed in red and black on heavy paper in postcard format within wavy red border. At head of title reproduction of photograph of building captioned: The village smithy. Title from first line of six-line stanza. Author's name not on item. Place of publication suggested because Brown University copy acquired with other similar postcards with illustrations of Portland and surroundings. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Composed by Simon B. Harris. Printed in red and black within red and black double-line border on page [1] Cover title. Text of song in eight numbered eight-line stanzas with varied four-line chorus.
