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.
Pages [2] and [4] blank. Printed in red and black on brown paper. At left and below title drawing of head of Mickey Mouse. "From Mr. Dawson of Manhattan." Imprint information from dealer; suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Poem in two eight-line stanzas. At end of text: Dedicated to Andrew E. Barbitchiotes of Springfield, Massachusetts by William Kimberley Palmer. Chicopee, Massachusetts U.S.A. August 1928, A.D..
Poem in 21 lines. At end of poem: Dedicated to Frank Fuhr and Lulu Fuhr, pioneers and idealists, by William Kimberley Palmer. Chicopee, Massachusetts U.S.A. May 1931 A.D.
Pages [2] and [4] blank. Cover title. At head of first poem on page [1]: "Hereafter is close at hand."--E.B. Hall, D.D.; at head of second poem on page four-line couplet ascribed to "Dr. Newell." Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Printed in gold and colors on heavy white embossed paper in postcard format; rubricated initials; text on verso in brown. At head of title framed illustration of landscape with house; below, a butterfly. Title from first lines. Type-signed at end: Mc Kown. Suggested publication date from postmark on Brown University copy.
Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments within border of type ornaments at sides and bottom. Original size not known. Title from first line. At end of text: January 1, 1830. A carrier's address which does not identify the name of the newspaper but does indicate that it is from "the city of Penn" (i.e. Philadelphia)
by Gen. W. H. Hayward, of Baltimore. To be sung to the tune: Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled. Within border of type ornaments. Title from first line of poem. In lower margin: Rose & Co. Prs. 5 So. Calvert St. Poem in 12 stanzas for meeting at Gettysburg beside Union graves. Date suggested because internal evidence shows poem written after end of Civil War and because author died in 1876.
Printed in reddish-brown and black on heavy paper. Title from first line. With rubricated initial. Type-signed at end of poem: Walt Whitman. At end of text: A Christmas greeting from Alice and Rollo Silver 1952.
Ibn Hazm. Poem. At head of title: Ibn Hazm. At end of text: Translated by Robert Bly. From 'The sea and the honeycomb' edited by Robert Bly, Beacon Press. Institute for the Study of Nonviolence Arab-Israeli study kit. Printed on blue paper. First line: The spirit came to the bed of the earnest lover.