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.
This collection is part of Brown University Library, hosted by Brown University.

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Homeward serenely she walked, with God's benediction upon her

Text printed in black on recto, in green on verso in postcard format. At head of title colored illustration of costumed young woman on dirt road, captioned: Evangeline. Title from first line of two-line excerpt from Longfellow's Evangeline. Author's name not on item. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence. "Printed in Great Britain"--Verso. Stamped in purple on verso: Wm. H. Morton, 65 Concord St., Portland, Maine.

Homestead strike songster

1 broadsheet. On verso: list of penny ballads and advertisements. Recto printed in six columns with words of 26 songs and advertisements for books and camera.

Homeoeopathy

Homeoeopathy

Brown University

At head of title: J.R. Hamilton M.D., homoeopathic physician and surgeon, Woodstock, Vt. ..

Homenaje a John F. Kennedy

Printed in two columns. At top center reproduction of photograph of Kennedy. Poem in 14 four-line stanzas. "Grabación 221."

Home, sweet home!

Home, sweet home!

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Page 3: Home at Christmas! What magic in those words .. Facsimile of the autograph manuscript of John Howard Payne's immortal ballad "Home, sweet home" formerly in the possession of Thomas F. Madigan.

Home, sweet home

Home, sweet home

Brown University

enlarged and improved by R. Thayer. Revision of John Howard Payne's poem, with two verses added to make a total of five; cf. notes at head of text. At end of text: Price, one cent. Printed area: 17.3 x 9.3 cm. Printed within border of type ornaments.

Home, sweet home

Home, sweet home

Brown University

Frenchfold; printed on double leaves. Illustrations in brown and black of country road on page [1], house on page [2], flowers on page [3] and music book on page [4]; signature "L.H. Risser" on page [2] Poem on page [3] type-signed at end: John Howard Payne (1791-1852) On verso: With our compliments and as an appreciation ... The Lowe Brothers Company Dayton, Ohio. Suggested publication date from advertising material acquired with Brown Unoversity copy.

Home, sweet home

Home, sweet home

Brown University

Printed in colors on heavy white paper in postcard format. Text superimposed on colored ground bordered by flowers; at head of title illustration of house with woman, child and dog greeting man. Text of song in three eight-line stanzas with three-line chorus beginning: Home, home, sweet, sweet home. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Home, sweet home

Home, sweet home

Brown University

At end of text: Supplement to the Providence Sunday Journal, April 20, 1919.

Home sweet home

Home sweet home

Brown University

Printed in color on glossy, heavy paper in postcard format. At head of title and at left colored illustrations of thatched cottage and ivy. Words and music of first stanza and chorus of song. "Printed in Germany"--Verso. Author's name not on item. Suggested publication date from postmark on Brown University copy.

Home sweet home

Home sweet home

Brown University

Printed in color on glossy, heavy paper in postcard format. At head of title and at left colored illustrations of thatched cottage and ivy. Words and music of first stanza and chorus of song. "Printed in Germany"--Verso. Author's name not on item. Suggested publication date from postmark on Brown University copy.

Home sweet home

Home sweet home

Brown University

Printed in color on glossy, heavy paper in postcard format. At head of title and at left colored illustrations of thatched cottage and ivy. Words and music of first stanza and chorus of song. "Printed in Germany"--Verso. Author's name not on item. Suggested publication date from postmark on Brown University copy.

Home sweet home

Home sweet home

Brown University

Silk ribbon, with woven design and lettering in red, black and gold; lower edges folded back to form pointed end with red tassel. At head of title woven illustration of house and yard; at lower left vignette of man sitting on stone. Music and words of first stanza and chorus, then words alone of next stanza and chorus. At end of text: 200th anniversary 1712-1912.

Home made happy by Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient

Broadsheet. Metamorphic advertising card. When folded, colored illustration of thin, unhappy family above first poem; when unfolded, illustration shows family plump and smiling above second poem. On verso advertisement for Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient, a laxative. Date from internal evidence.

Home league

Home league

Brown University

Air: Star spangled banner. Within single line border with corner ornaments.

Home industry, the most direct road to national prosperity

Poetry. Printed area measures: 24.1 x 18.9 cm. Printed in two columns; wood-engraving of farm scene at left of title. Internal evidence, e.g. type and unique spacing, strongly suggest Joseph White as printer. He printed in Boston, first in partnership, then alone from 1788 to 1809; in Charlestown, Mass., from 1810 to 1826. Contents suggest imprint date approximation. Ninety-eight lines of verse based on David Humphreys' A poem on industry; first line: Sages conven'd from delegating states. This edition not in Evans, Bristol, Shaw/Shoemaker, Am. Imprints, or Ford.

Home Guard

Home Guard

Brown University

At head of title hand-colored wood-engraving of man in woman's clothing using washboard and tub. Four-line poem. A similar poem at Brown University entitled Soldier (HB37951) was published by the N.Y. Union Valentine Co.

Home again

Home again

Brown University

Air: Home, Sweet Home. At end of text: Dedicated to the Old Folks' Picnic Ass'n Westminster, Mass., Aug. 21, 1912.