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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How the veterans broke up Jeff Davis' ball!

By Mrs. G.P. Hardwick. Printed in red and blue on page [1]; pages [2]-[4] blue-lined writing paper. At left of text on page [1] wood-engravings in red of drummer boy and Columbia and wood-engraving in blue of soldier carrying American flag. Caption title. To be sung to the tune: Lanagan's ball. Text of song in six eight-line stanzas.

How small they are

How small they are

Brown University

Printed in blue. With triple line border. At end of text: The Toronto World, June 12, 1917.

How Sheridan came

How Sheridan came

Brown University

Poetry. Printed on pink card stock. On page [1] cut of General Sheridan on horseback with facsimile signatures: J.H.E. Whitney sc. and G.Y. Coffin del. Below, beneath single lne: Presented by & Phillips, Washington, D.C. On page [4] advertising for & Phillips, solicitors of claims for military pensions. Date from internal evidence.

How Sheridan came

How Sheridan came

Brown University

Poetry. Printed on pink card stock. On page [1] cut of General Sheridan on horseback with facsimile signatures: J.H.E. Whitney sc. and G.Y. Coffin del. Below, beneath single lne: Presented by & Phillips, Washington, D.C. On page [4] advertising for & Phillips, solicitors of claims for military pensions. Date from internal evidence.

How say

How say

Brown University

Tom Beckett. Broadsheet printed on pale gray paper folded to create 8 pages. Cover title. Back page contains colophon, biographical and series information and variation of Aldine printer's mark. One of edition of 750 copies.

How sad and lonely was the time

Title from first line. Pages [2,4] blank. At end of text: Composed by Mrs. Nancy Mattice on the death of her son, Henry.

How rough is the journey of life

Title from first line. Tune: Old Union. Within ornamental border. At head of text: The following lines were sentimentally written by John Cate, on the sudden and unexpected death of his beloved wife, --who departed this life, March 25, 1839.

How rough is the journey of life

Title from first line. Tune: Old Union. Within ornamental border. At head of text: The following lines were sentimentally written by John Cate, on the sudden and unexpected death of his beloved wife, --who departed this life, March 25, 1839.

How Meade whipped Lee at Gettysburg

Published and sold by Mrs. G.P. Hardwick, Buffalo, N.Y. Within double line border with ornamental corners. To be sung to the tune: While everything is lovely, and the goose hangs high. At end of text: Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1863, by Mrs. G.P. Hardwick. Poem in ten four-line stanzas.

How Margaret earned a beautiful solid oak, Chautauqua desk

Story describes system of earning furniture premiums for selling Larkin soap. Story describes system of earning furniture premiums for selling Larkin soap. Soap advertisement printed in colors on heavy paper with irregular edges in shape of desk pictured on page [1] On page [1] colored illustration of open secretary desk captioned: The Chautauqua desk; on page [4] colored illustration of three girls washing three turbaned black men. Caption title. Prose and poetry. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence; Larkin Soap Company was called Larkin Soap Manufacturing Company during 1890s.

How high the moon and how low the tide

Poetry. Page [2] blank; title from first line on page [3] Lithograph by Honore Daumier of Nadar taking pictures from balloon in upper left on page [1] Colophon on page [4]: "Nadar elevates photography to the hights of art" Lithograph ... The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

How did you feel, comrades?

Title same as first line. Page [4] blank. Page [1]: Massachusetts Association of Union Ex-prisoners of war. The Twentieth Annual Reunion ..

How dear to my heart is the Roller Skate Corset

Broadsheet printed on heavy paper. On recto uncaptioned lithograph of elaborately dressed woman signed M.M. & O. Lith., N.Y. On verso poem in three ten-line stanzas advertising corsets. Title from first line on verso. At end of text on verso: For sale by Geo. E. Wheat, Nashua, N.H. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

How dear to my heart is the Comfort Hip Corset

Broadsheet. Poetry. Printed on tan cardboard. On verso: sepia lithograph of bust and one arm of bejeweled woman; at lower left: M.M. & O. Lith., N.Y.; on recto: parody in three stanzas of The old oaken bucket. Title from first line; imprint date from internal evidence. At end of text: For sale by Miss Alice Beaman, Antwerp, N.Y.

How beautiful it is

How beautiful it is

Brown University

At end of text: Robinson Jeffers. Printed in black and red in calligraphy. Publication date supplied by dealer.