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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Fiftieth anniversary ode

Read by David McCord at the fiftieth anniversary dinner [of the St. Botolph Club, Boston, Massachusetts], December 8, 1930. At end of text: St. Botolph Club, Boston, Massachusetts.

Fiat justitia

Fiat justitia

Brown University

At end of text: Baltimore, 1862. H. Rebel. Other titles for this poem: God will repay and Right must prevail.

Fete champetre

Fete champetre

Brown University

Royal Murdoch. Page [4] blank. Caption title. Poem in nine four-line stanzas.

Festlied zur Feier der Legung des Atlantischen Telegraphen

Pages [2]-[3] blank. Within ornamental border; printed on yellow paper. To be sung to the tune: O Wald, mit deinen duft'gen Zweigen. On page [4] translation: Festival song at the celebration of the laying of the Atlantic Telegraph by William Spitznasski (First line: Hail man's great intellectual power!)

Festival of the Pilgrim Society, December 22d, 1820

Three songs used at the celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth. Printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line; double rules beneath title; short double rules above printer statement. Printed area: 21.8 x 14.0 cm. Benjamin True and Equality Weston printed at Boston in 1820. Not in Shoemaker.

Festival hymn

Festival hymn

Brown University

Tune: Auld Lang Syne. Within double line border. At head of text: Inscribed to Rev. Richard Salter Storrs, D.D., on the fiftieth anniversary of his ordination and settlement at Braintree, Mass., July 3, 1861.

Fennel

Fennel

Brown University

Printed on yellow paper. At end of text: Willie Penmore.

Fence or ambulance

Fence or ambulance

Brown University

Within ornamental border. At end of text: George Hambrecht. For author verification see Granger.

Female drummer: and, The poor old maids

Poetry printed in two columns; second poem printed in larger, different type face. Cuts of drummer on left and woman on right flank title; cut of drummer like one in row of soldiers used in "Yankey's return from Camp" Type face and spacing of letters in first poem similar to those used by Joseph White. He printed from 1788 to 1809 in Boston, from 1810 to 1826 in Charleston, Mass. and used long "s" into the 19th century.

Felicitas temporum 1949

Felicitas temporum 1949

Brown University

Doran A. Jones. Printed on heavy white paper within embossed border. At right of title vignette of coin with image of basket of fruit and grain, inscribed: Felicitas temporum. Poem in four lines. Place of publication from ms. notation on Brown University copy.

Felicitas temporum 1949

Felicitas temporum 1949

Brown University

Doran A. Jones. Printed on heavy white paper within embossed border. At right of title vignette of coin with image of basket of fruit and grain, inscribed: Felicitas temporum. Poem in four lines. Place of publication from ms. notation on Brown University copy.

Felicitas temporum 1949

Felicitas temporum 1949

Brown University

Doran A. Jones. Printed on heavy white paper within embossed border. At right of title vignette of coin with image of basket of fruit and grain, inscribed: Felicitas temporum. Poem in four lines. Place of publication from ms. notation on Brown University copy.

February

February

Brown University

Broadsheet printed in colors on heavy paper; text on verso within single-line border with ornamental corners. On recto colored illustration of flowers captioned: Hyacinth, Van Thol tulip. On verso poem in four eight-line stanzas type-signed: Whittier. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.