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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Going West

Going West

Brown University

By Thomas M. Jordan. Poetry in 10 four-line stanzas printed within ornamented triple line border. Poem outlines proposed trip West starting "down Penobscot River"

Going up

Going up

Brown University

Broadsheet stapled into dark blue lettered illustrated paper wrapper. Offprint; pages 11 and 12 of periodical. Vignette of printing press at head of title on page 12. Poem on page 11, prose poem on page 12. "The bond. July 1948. Volume 5, number 3. An AAPA publication."--Cover. Possibly published by the American Amateur Press Association.

Going up

Going up

Brown University

Broadsheet stapled into dark blue lettered illustrated paper wrapper. Offprint; pages 11 and 12 of periodical. Vignette of printing press at head of title on page 12. Poem on page 11, prose poem on page 12. "The bond. July 1948. Volume 5, number 3. An AAPA publication."--Cover. Possibly published by the American Amateur Press Association.

Going up

Going up

Brown University

Broadsheet stapled into dark blue lettered illustrated paper wrapper. Offprint; pages 11 and 12 of periodical. Vignette of printing press at head of title on page 12. Poem on page 11, prose poem on page 12. "The bond. July 1948. Volume 5, number 3. An AAPA publication."--Cover. Possibly published by the American Amateur Press Association.

Going over Jordan: as sung by HAM'S Minstrels

Song urges striking factory girls to hold out for the ten-hour day. Song urges striking factory girls to hold out for the ten-hour day. Within ornamental border. At head of text wood-engraving of Mazeppa tied to horse's back. Text of song in seven four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Oh! Jordan is a hard road to travel up. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Going home!

Going home!

Brown University

By Miss Cath. McKeen, a teacher in Mt. Holyoke Seminary, South Hadley, Mass. Printed in two columns divided by single line within single-line border with fruits and foliage inside corners. Colophon within lower margin: Haddock & Son, Prs., 108 So. Third. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Going home!

Going home!

Brown University

By Miss Cath. McKeen, a teacher in Mt. Holyoke Seminary, South Hadley, Mass. Printed in two columns divided by single line within single-line border with fruits and foliage inside corners. Colophon within lower margin: Haddock & Son, Prs., 108 So. Third. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Going home

Going home

Brown University

Printed on heavy paper in two columns within mourning border with crossed corners. At head of text, in brackets: Written on the death of Ida M. Haskins, a member of the Baptist Sabbath School, who departed this life August 24th, 1876, aged 20 years, 5 months and 24 days. Poem in 12 four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: J. Morse.

Going home

Going home

Brown University

Printed on heavy paper in two columns within mourning border with crossed corners. At head of text, in brackets: Written on the death of Ida M. Haskins, a member of the Baptist Sabbath School, who departed this life August 24th, 1876, aged 20 years, 5 months and 24 days. Poem in 12 four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: J. Morse.

Going home

Going home

Brown University

Printed on heavy paper in two columns within mourning border with crossed corners. At head of text, in brackets: Written on the death of Ida M. Haskins, a member of the Baptist Sabbath School, who departed this life August 24th, 1876, aged 20 years, 5 months and 24 days. Poem in 12 four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: J. Morse.

Going home

Going home

Brown University

Printed on heavy paper in two columns within mourning border with crossed corners. At head of text, in brackets: Written on the death of Ida M. Haskins, a member of the Baptist Sabbath School, who departed this life August 24th, 1876, aged 20 years, 5 months and 24 days. Poem in 12 four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: J. Morse.

Goddess

Goddess

Brown University

Printed in red and black. One of 125 printed for Don Carpenter...December 1964. At end of text: 14:ix:64.

God's presence

God's presence

Brown University

Bishop Ralph Cushman. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence. Title and text within a single line border of type ornaments. At end of poem on p. [1]: "By permission European Christian Mission"

God's intercessor

God's intercessor

Brown University

Within triple line border. At head of title: Dedicated to Father William Anthony McBride ..

God's gifts

God's gifts

Brown University

By Adelaide Anne Proctor. Broadsheet. Poem in two sections, each of nine three-line stanzas. At end of text: Press of St. Martin's College, 715 Catharine Street. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence; St. Martin's College was founded in 1895.

God's dark: a bedtime comfort

Page [4] blank. Printed in blue-green and black on heavy paper; ornamental border on pages [2]-[3]. On pages [2] and [3] illustrations of spirit, The Dark, watching over sleeping child, and open window. Cover title. On pages [2]-[3] poem in six four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: John Martin. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

God's blessing be upon

God's blessing be upon

Brown University

Title from first line. Text of song in four numbered nine-line stanzas of which the last line in each is: God for our native land! Song elsewhere called: God for our native land. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

God's blessing be upon

God's blessing be upon

Brown University

Title from first line. Text of song in four numbered nine-line stanzas of which the last line in each is: God for our native land! Song elsewhere called: God for our native land. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

God's blessing be upon

God's blessing be upon

Brown University

Title from first line. Text of song in four numbered nine-line stanzas of which the last line in each is: God for our native land! Song elsewhere called: God for our native land. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

God's best

God's best

Brown University

by Rev. A.B. Simpson. Broadsheet printed on pink paper. Poem in eight four-line stanzas. At end of text: For sale by I.L. Hess, 250 W. 44th Street, New York. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

God's best

God's best

Brown University

by Rev. A.B. Simpson. Broadsheet printed on pink paper. Poem in eight four-line stanzas. At end of text: For sale by I.L. Hess, 250 W. 44th Street, New York. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

God's best

God's best

Brown University

by Rev. A.B. Simpson. Broadsheet printed on pink paper. Poem in eight four-line stanzas. At end of text: For sale by I.L. Hess, 250 W. 44th Street, New York. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

God's answer

God's answer

Brown University

Within ornamental border. At head of text: Affectionately inscribed to my friend, Capt. McGilvery and family.