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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Her choice this year

Her choice this year

Brown University

Illustrated by John T. McCutcheon. At end of text: Published by The French Relief Fund. The Indianapolis Branch of The American Fund for French Wounded.

Her answer

Her answer

Brown University

Poem in four eight-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Henry W. Miller

Henry W. Miller

Brown University

Cover title. At head and foot of title: June 2, 1891.; Sept. 9, 1800--May 31, 1891.

Henry and Julia

Henry and Julia

Brown University

Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by row of type ornaments within border of type ornaments. At head of text wood-engraving of man firing at woman while stabbing a man. At head of text below cut: An elegy containing the details of Henry Malcomb, who killed his sister, and Julia, his intended bride. In lower margin: Sold, wholesale and retail, by J. G. Hunt, at the Head of City Wharf, South Side. Hunt used this address in 1836. First line: I call your attention, while passing along.

Helpful ministry

Helpful ministry

Brown University

Processed copy. At head of text: (To Dr. J.J. Thompson) At end of text: April Music.

Help the blind woman along

At end of text: Please return if not bought. Dated because of another broadside in Brown's Broadsides Collection with same text but "man" replacing "woman" in first line. The broadside was bought by Thos O. Mabbot from the supposed author W.M. Smith in 1923.

Help me build on Thy high road

D.B. Steinman. Pages [2] and [4] blank. On page [2] colored illustration of bridge. Title from first line on page [1] Separate piece of transparent paper printed in green laid in, with information about Raritan River Bridge designed and supervised by D.B. Steinman for the New Jersey Highway Authority. Printed in colors on heavy white paper. Poem in four lines on page [1] "Christmas, 1955."

Hello

Hello

Brown University

Printed in brown on heavy cream paper. Announces meeting at Golden Gate Park on Saturday June 22. Poem in six lines. Suggested publication date from internal evidence; June 22 fell on a Saturday in 1968.

Hellas

Hellas

Brown University

Six-line poem. At end of poem, between rules: Dedicated to Dorothea. Type-signed at end: William Kimberley Palmer. Chicopee, Massachusetts U.S.A. May 1929 A.D.

Hell in Texas

Hell in Texas

Brown University

by the author of "Texas a Paradise." Printed on heavy paper in postcard format. Poem in eleven four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from partly legible postmark on Brown University copy.

Helene

Helene

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Pages [2,3] within ornamental border. At end of text: From "The Aldine."

Helene

Helene

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Pages [2,3] within ornamental border. At end of text: From "The Aldine."

Heiress thou of all the ages

1 broadsheet. Title same as first line. At head of text: Austrian hymn. At end of text: Howard University, Washington, D.C. Verso: Sixty-sixth anniversary of the American Home Missionary Society ..