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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Greetings

Greetings

Brown University

French fold; printed on double leaves.

Greetings

Greetings

Brown University

French fold; printed on double leaves. At end of text: Merry Christmas 1946 / Happy New Year 1947 / Grace and May Duffee.

Greetings

Greetings

Brown University

Poetry. Text on picture of scroll with holly leaves and red quill pen in gold inkwell; title in gold and red. Poem mentions Handy's book Father of the blues, published in 1941. At end of text signature: William C. Handy. First line: There wasn't much to livin'

Greetings

Greetings

Brown University

Mary J. Frame. Printed in colors on white paper; text in black. On page [1] colored illustration of open book with candelabrum; on page [2] vignette of lantern and holly captioned: Holiday greetings 1959; on page [4] seal of the United Amateur Press Association. Poem in eight lines. "Copyright The Hermitage Art Company, Chicago. Litho in U.S.A. No. 2941."

Greetings

Greetings

Brown University

Printed in green on heavy white paper. Drawings of holly leaves and berries at upper right and lower right. Poem in six four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: Sincerely, James H. McGregor, Nella B. McGregor. Pierre, South Dakota, December 25, 1944.

Greeting

Greeting

Brown University

Pages [2-4] blank. At end of text: Christmastide 1919.

Green poems

Green poems

Brown University

Printed in black, blue and red on tan paper Text partially superimposed over reproduction in blue of photograph of Primo Csrnera with three other men On verso, in illustrated cartouche used elsewhere by Zephyrus Image: Ed Dorn; below: Kent State Arts Festival '74

Green poems

Green poems

Brown University

Printed in black, blue and red on tan paper Text partially superimposed over reproduction in blue of photograph of Primo Csrnera with three other men On verso, in illustrated cartouche used elsewhere by Zephyrus Image: Ed Dorn; below: Kent State Arts Festival '74

Green poems

Green poems

Brown University

Printed in black, blue and red on tan paper Text partially superimposed over reproduction in blue of photograph of Primo Csrnera with three other men On verso, in illustrated cartouche used elsewhere by Zephyrus Image: Ed Dorn; below: Kent State Arts Festival '74

Green poems

Green poems

Brown University

Printed in black, blue and red on tan paper Text partially superimposed over reproduction in blue of photograph of Primo Csrnera with three other men On verso, in illustrated cartouche used elsewhere by Zephyrus Image: Ed Dorn; below: Kent State Arts Festival '74

Green poems

Green poems

Brown University

Printed in black, blue and red on tan paper Text partially superimposed over reproduction in blue of photograph of Primo Csrnera with three other men On verso, in illustrated cartouche used elsewhere by Zephyrus Image: Ed Dorn; below: Kent State Arts Festival '74

Greece

Greece

Brown University

French fold, printed on double page. On verso: This poem, which appeared in the Boston Evening Transcript on April 30, 1897, was one of Robert Frost's earliest published poems...

Greece

Greece

Brown University

French fold, printed on double page. On verso: This poem, which appeared in the Boston Evening Transcript on April 30, 1897, was one of Robert Frost's earliest published poems...

Great Locofoco juggernaut: a new console-a-tory sub-treasury rag-monster

Mock banknote with poem and caricatures of Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren. "Good for a shave. Shinplaster 12 1/2 cents." "Eng'd by the Locofoco Shinplaster engraving Co." Engraved by D.C. Johnston--cf. Johnson, Malcolm. David Claypool Johnston, American graphic humorist, 1798-1865. Lunenburg, Vt., 1970, no. 55.

Great lionheaded

Great lionheaded

Brown University

Title from first line. Poetry in three lines; type-signed at end. Mimeographed typescript on yellow paper. In right lower margin: Free poems among friends. "Free poems among friends" had its beginnings in San Francisco in the Spring of 1965. By September of that year publication was continued until 1967 by the Detroit Artist's Workshop, later Detroit Artists' Workshop Press. (See "Free Poems among Artists, Vol. 1, p. [3]") This issue probably published in San Francisco.

Great law

Great law

Brown University

Border of type ornaments at top and bottom. At end of text: The Season's Greetings from John Holmes. 1947. Cream paper printed in deep green and red; bottom edge deckled; printed as a holiday greeting.

Great invention: A mill has lately been invented

1 broadsheet; text within double line border. Title from first line. At head of text rendering of the mill transforming old women into young ones. At end of text on verso below double rule: To Pedlars. Just published, the Musical Almanac, and for sale ... Office in the brick building, south west corner of the stone bridge, Hartford, Conn. J.M.K. Davis "Glimpses of early Hartford book publishing" lists Kappel as printing in Hartford by 1829. This edition not located in BAL.

Great Fair! Academy of Music, Philadelphia: An appeal on behalf of the "Soldiers' and Sailors' Home."

Printed in one and two columns divided by curvilinear line. At head of title wood-engraving of two uniformed men, one lacking an arm and one a leg, captioned vertically at left and right sides: Relics of the war. Take good care of them. Appeals to firemen, tradesmen, manufacturers, banks, insurance offices and citizens to contribute money or goods to the fair opening Oct. 23, 1865; signed by members of committee headed by Robert P. King.

Great Democratic song

Great Democratic song

Brown University

composed and published in honor of the recent Democratic victory. Within border of type ornament sections. Poetry and prose. To be sung to the tune: Old folks at home. Contains text of song in three eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: All the Whigs are sad and dreary; imitates Stephen Foster's Old folks at home. At end of text below rule within lower border: Thomas M. Scroggy, Publisher, Card & Fancy Job Printer, No. 443 Vine Street, above Twelfth, Phila. where all new songs can be obtained, wholesale and retail. Publication date suggested because of mention in prose paragraph of Gen. Winfield Scott, who was the Whig presidential candidate defeated in 1852. Not in Wolf, American song sheets.

Great booby: Single & married; and The wife for me

Printed in two columns divided by line of advertising vertically printed between rules: Sold, wholesale and retail, by L. Deming, No. 62, Hanover Street, 2d door from Friend Street, Boston. Leonard Deming used this address from 1832 to 1837.

Graveyard poem

Graveyard poem

Brown University

Printed on cream paper. At lower left drawing of tree. Poem in 19 lines. Type-signed at end: William Trowbridge. In lower left corner: JM. ER. Tightrope VI. Issued as part of Set no. 162 with other poetry broadsides handset and printed by Jo Mish and Ed Rayher in periodical Tightrope, vol. 6.