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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Find it so hard to write the how why & what about poesy at present

Reproduced typescript. Title from first line. Headed at upper right: Paterson Society, 16 Parker Street, Cambridge 38, Massachusetts. Includes six lines of poetry beginning: Stars spewed from some cosmic hole. Typesigned at end: Gregory Corso. February 1961. Athens, Greece.

Finally a valentine: a poem

by Louis Zukofsky. At end of text: Poem by Louis Zukofsky, October 23/63: "my last short poem for a long time" this finally a valentine will close or now closes my collected short poems to be called ALL. Colophon on verso: poet Louis Zukofsky.../typographer Edward Wright.../artist John Furnival.../printer Stephen Craig...

Filigree

Filigree

Brown University

by Rose Freeman-Ishill. Issued in green colored folio with an orange print of a filigree typed ornament on cover. Imprint from internal evidence. Broadside mounted on p. [3] of cover.

Fighting Joe Hooker!

Fighting Joe Hooker!

Brown University

by Wm. J. Shelton. Within double line border printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line. At head of text woodcut of mounted soldier with caption: "Fighting Joe" sets out. To be sung to the tune: Ole Dan Tucker. Place of publication suggested because a poem by this author on the Battle of Fredericksburg was printed here.

Fighting for the red white and blue

At head of title cut of American flag; at left center reproduction of photograph of author. Text of song in four numbered six-line stanzas with varied chorus. At end of text: By Mrs. L.A. Cornett, Willow Springs, Mo. Mother of three soldier boys. Price, 10 cents. Copyright date from Library of Congress stamp on Brown University copy.

Fight it out

Fight it out

Brown University

Poetry printed on brown card stock. Colophon at end on page 4: G.J. Alexander, 2208 Wallace Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Copyrighted, 1915.

Fight for freedom

Fight for freedom

Brown University

Printed in red on right and left panels of three partite broadside. TLS to Theodore Francis Green from author in middle panel.

Fifty years ago

Fifty years ago

Brown University

At head of title: It was the year 1906 that Waverly celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of her high school .. At end of text: Copyright 1908 by Edward Maximilian Betowski, 10 Johnson Street, Waverly, N.Y.

Fifty years ago

Fifty years ago

Brown University

by W.F. Cook, Co. E, San Francisco, Cal. Within double-line border with ornamental corners. Poem in 14 four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: W.F. Cook. At end of text below rule: These lines were written by Warren F. Cook who enlisted in April 1861 from the town of Bellingham, Mass., and joined Co. E organized at Medway, and became a part of the 2d Regiment, Mass. Vol. Inf. Suggested publication date from date fifty years after author's enlistment in 1861.

Fiftieth anniversary program: December 10, 1939

Processed copy on brown paper. Program for service at unnamed church includes week's schedule and poem. Author of anniversary poem Fifty years given on page [1] as Mrs. S.K.M. Robertson and on page [3] as Zella M. Robertson.

Fiftieth anniversary program: December 10, 1939

Processed copy on brown paper. Program for service at unnamed church includes week's schedule and poem. Author of anniversary poem Fifty years given on page [1] as Mrs. S.K.M. Robertson and on page [3] as Zella M. Robertson.

Fiftieth anniversary program: December 10, 1939

Processed copy on brown paper. Program for service at unnamed church includes week's schedule and poem. Author of anniversary poem Fifty years given on page [1] as Mrs. S.K.M. Robertson and on page [3] as Zella M. Robertson.