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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From Astapovo, or, What we are to do

by Peter Whigham. Folded broadsheet tipped into dark gray folder with lettered yellow label pasted on front, light gray label containing colophon on back; separate leaf with reproduction of drawing laid in; poem printed on transparent paper with deckled left and right edges. At head of text: For Gary H. Brown. Typography by David Lawrence.

From a skyscraper

From a skyscraper

Brown University

by Allan Updegraff. Broadsheet. Reproduction of a painting by Anton Fischer on verso, entitled: A subway rush-hour crowd. Poem in five six-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

From a series of ten affirmation poems: number two

Poem printed in reddish-brown on mustard-colored card stock. At upper left abstract illustration in white. Title at upper right. Issued as part of a portfolio by 20 participants at a 1978 Port Townsend Poetry Symposium; imprint information from dealer.

From A little cemetery

From A little cemetery

Brown University

[Edition of 500 copies.] Cream paper printed in black in calligraphy; bottom edge deckled and stained brown. Author's name from ms. signature.

From "The birds of Killingworth"

Poetry in eight-line stanzas. Printed area measures 16 x 10 cm. Border of type ornaments and head and bottom of text; lower edge deckled. At head of text: Most of the action in this well-known poem of Longfellow's takes place on or near the Clinton Green [Sudbury, Mass.]... Stanzas 15 and 16 of The Birds of Killingworth; excerpted from Tales of a Wayside Inn.

Frog opera

Frog opera

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Advertisement for Heckers' Griddle Cake Flour on verso. Advertising card has colored illustration of singing frog on recto beneath poem. Date from internal evidence.

Frog opera

Frog opera

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Advertisement for Heckers' Griddle Cake Flour on verso. Advertising card has colored illustration of singing frog on recto beneath poem. Date from internal evidence.

Frisco catastrophe

Frisco catastrophe

Brown University

Page [4] blank. At head of text: To air of "Boston Fire" At end of text on page 3: Composed by S. Brooks Jr. U.S.F.S. West Virginia.

Frigid reception

Frigid reception

Brown University

John M. Bennett. At head of title illustration of television set. Place of publication and publisher information from donor.

Friends' Historical Association summer meeting motor pilgrimage: Springfield and Providence meeting houses, Delaware ...

Printed on off-white paper. At head of title seal of association; on pages [2]-[4] reproductions of photographs and drawing of early Quaker meeting-houses in Delaware County, Pa. Program for excursion to the Springfield and Providence meeting-houses in Delaware County, Pa. May 25, 1929; lists association officers and talks, including one on the Lownes family.

Friends of the Constitution! To the polls!

Printed area: 20 x 16 cm. Urges a vote for the proposed constitution (known as the Landholders' Constitution) First line: Two days yet remain for action. Improve them with.

Friends of long-ago

Friends of long-ago

Brown University

At head of text: For the golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Wheeler.

Friend

Friend

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Advertising brochure. Title & portrait of McCord on recto. Poem and advertising on verso.

Friday

Friday

Brown University

Poetry. Printed on card stock. Illustration in color on gold ground of Afro-American woman washing window; dialect poem at upper right. One of set of seven cards advertising Higgins' German Laundry Soap, one for each day of the week. Date from internal evidence.