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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Uncle Sam to Kaiser Bill

Uncle Sam to Kaiser Bill

Brown University

At head of text: Song. At end of text: (Copyright 1918, by W.C. Tichenor, Lebanon, Ohio)

Uncle Sam

Uncle Sam

Brown University

Tune: Maryland, my Maryland.

Uncle Isham

Uncle Isham

Brown University

Broadsheet. At head of text, in brackets: The subject of the following poetical effusion was a pious coloured man, who appears to have belonged to a family of slaves in North Carolina, who are now in a process of emancipation by the active exertions of their master and mistress. The poem is the production of the latter. Poem in eleven four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Uncivilized

Uncivilized

Brown University

At head of title: No. 90-Henry George Free Tract Society, Endwell, N.Y.

Un jour maitre O'Farrell: chanson d'actualité

Un jour maitre O'Farrell: chanson d'actualité

Brown University

par du May d'Amour. Air: Un jour maitre Corbeau. Text of song in 12 four-line stanzas with two-line refrain beginning: Sur l'air du tra la la. Author's name from dealer; suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Ultimatum for man

Ultimatum for man

Brown University

Peggy Pond Church. Broadsheet printed in red on recto and black on verso. Poem on recto and information about author on verso. Suggested publication date from date of "her Ahsahta collection" mentioned on verso.

Two years after the ratification of a treaty of peace between the Confederate States & the United States

Two years after the ratification of a treaty of peace between the Confederate States & the United States

Brown University

Broadside printed in yellow, black and blue on heavy glossy white paper in postcard format; text on verso in blue. On recto reproduction of five hundred dollar Confederate note. Title from first lines on recto, printed on note. On verso paragraph explaining origin of poem and ascribing it to a Major A. L. Jones of Mississippi, and poem beginning: Representing nothing on God's earth now. Poem is often called The Confederate note, and attributed to S.A. Jonas.

Two wintery poems

Two wintery poems

Brown University

by Robert Frost. Printed in black and green on light gray paper with deckled edge. Below title on page [1] drawing in green of landscape; at bottom of page [3] drawing in green of window; on page [4] printer's mark in black.

Two sonnets

Two sonnets

Brown University

by Daniel Hugh Verder. Page [4] blank. French-fold; printed on double page. Printed in red and black on heavy laid paper; rubricated initials. Below author's name on page [1]: To Harry Elkins Widener, died April 15, 1912 the Memorial Library dedicated June 24, 1915.