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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Giving

Giving

Brown University

Title within ornamental bars.

Give thanks, all ye people

Give thanks, all ye people

Brown University

Metrical version of Lincoln's Proclamation for Thanksgiving on October 3, 1863. For bibliographical information and reprint of Broadside see Stewart McClelland's article: "Lincoln's Thanksgiving hymn"

Give joy for mourning

Give joy for mourning

Brown University

Poetry. Pages [2,4] blank. Printed on cream paper. On page [1] drawing of King in red and black signed Wm. Saltzman. Title from first line. At end of poem: Ancient plain song. Imprint information from dealer, J. H. Woolmer, Revere, Pa.

Girls

Girls

Brown University

Within single line border with corner ornaments. At end of text: M.A.B.

Girl body

Girl body

Brown University

Piero Heliczer. Printed in silver ink on black paper. Poem.

Girl body

Girl body

Brown University

Piero Heliczer. Printed in silver ink on black paper. Poem.

Gilbert Sorrentino: Corrosive sublimate

Gilbert Sorrentino: Corrosive sublimate

Brown University

Printed in blue and black. Flyer from press advertising Corrosive Sublimate by G. Sorrentino with text of: Well she walked out of my life. Her young breasts. [First line]

Gigantic cut lips

Gigantic cut lips

Brown University

JMB. Printed on red paper. "LBP74." Complete text transcribed. Author's and publisher's full name from donor.

Gigantic cut lips

Gigantic cut lips

Brown University

JMB. Printed on red paper. "LBP74." Complete text transcribed. Author's and publisher's full name from donor.

Giant steps

Giant steps

Brown University

Charles Philbrick. Broadsheet. Poem on recto; second section (or another untitled poem) on verso. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.

Giant steps

Giant steps

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Charles Philbrick. Broadsheet. Poem on recto; second section (or another untitled poem) on verso. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.

Getting the news!

Getting the news!

Brown University

By E.W. Locke, army poet and balladist. To be sung to the tune: When Johnny comes marching home. Printed in two columns divided by single line. At head of title caricature of Andrew Jackson reading newspaper headlined: 10,000 Union Major. Text of song in nine eight-line stanzas. Publication date suggested because of discussion of elections during Johnson's presidency and his "trip out West" that occurred in 1866.