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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Feats of muster day

Feats of muster day

Brown University

At head of text: The following appropriate lines were written in commemoration of that splendid encounter which took place at Dartmouth College, .. At end of text: Perseverance.

Fear: this white jelly frog

Fear: this white jelly frog

Brown University

Title from first lines. Poetry; typesigned at end: Ellen Jarvis. Mimeographed typescript on white paper. At head of title in upper left: Free poems among friends. "Free poems among friends" had its beginnings in San Francisco in the Spring of 1965. By September publication was continued until 1967 by Detroit Artist's Workshop, later Detroit Artists' Workshop Press. (See "Free Poems among Friends, Vol. 1, p. [3]")

Father Abbey's will. To which is added a letter of courtship, to his virtuous and amiable widow

Father Abbey's will. To which is added a letter of courtship, to his virtuous and amiable widow

Brown University

Printed in three columns divided by lines of type ornaments. At head of text: Cambridge. December 1731. Some time since died here, Mr. Matthew Abbey, in a very advanced age .. Attributed to John Seccombe and John Hubbard cf. J. Langdon Sibley, VIII., 481-490. This edition not in Ford, Evans, Bristol. Imprint date approximation suggest by Lawrence C. Wroth. (See his letter of 11-8-37)

Father Abbey's will, to which is added, a letter of courtship to his virtuous and amiable wife

Father Abbey's will, to which is added, a letter of courtship to his virtuous and amiable wife

Brown University

Printed in three columns divided by lines of advertisement: Sold wholesale and retail, by Leonard Deming at the sign of the Barber's Pole, No. 61, Hanover Street, Boston, and at Middlebury, Vt. Where may be found .. At head of text: Some time since, died here, Mr. Matthew Abbey, in a very advanced age .. Attributed to John Seccombe and John Hubbard, cf. JH. Langdon Sibley, VIII, pp. 481-490. This edition not in Ford or Checklist Amer. imprints.

Father Abbey's will

Father Abbey's will

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. Headband at head of title. At end of text beneath line of type ornaments: Printed and sold at No. 5 Middle-Street, Newburyport. John Gilman was listed at this address in 1807. This edition not in Ford, Evans, or Bristol. Attributed to John Seccombe, cf. J. Langdon Sibley, VIII, 481-490.

Father Abbey's will

Father Abbey's will

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. At head of text three woodcuts (two genre scenes, with urn in center) Attributed to John Seccombe, cf. J. Langdon Sibley, VIII, 481-490.

Fat chair

Fat chair

Brown University

Printed on heavy white paper in two columns. At left illustration of hand with pointing finger. Place of publication and publisher information from press.

Fat chair

Fat chair

Brown University

Printed on heavy white paper in two columns. At left illustration of hand with pointing finger. Place of publication and publisher information from press.

Fat chair

Fat chair

Brown University

Printed on heavy white paper in two columns. At left illustration of hand with pointing finger. Place of publication and publisher information from press.

Fat chair

Fat chair

Brown University

Printed on heavy white paper in two columns. At left illustration of hand with pointing finger. Place of publication and publisher information from press.

Farmer's boy: and, The sea

Farmer's boy: and, The sea

Brown University

Poetry printed in two columns, divided by line of ruled advertising with type ornaments at ends: Sold, with a variety of other articles, by Hunts & Shaw, N.E. corner of Faneuil Hall Market, Boston. Above address is listed for the firm in 1834. Cut of mother and son gardening at head of text in first column.

Farm Journal

Farm Journal

Brown University

Border of verses illustrated by vignettes of brownies doing farm work. Central panel urges subscription to journal edited and published by Wilmer Atkinson.

Farewell to wife and children

Farewell to wife and children

Brown University

Place of publication suggested because second poem praises Union soldiers from New Hampshire; suggested date because both poems deal with the Civil War.

Farewell to the old pipe organ

Farewell to the old pipe organ

Brown University

Poem bids farewell to old church organ and welcomes new one; name and location of church not given. Poem bids farewell to old church organ and welcomes new one; name and location of church not given. by B.F.M. Sours. Page [4] blank. Border at top and bottom. At head of text on page [1]: History. Made by Standbridge Bros., Philadelphia .... Dedicated with the Church on May 7, 1871. Poem in eleven seven-line stanzas. Publication date suggested because poem mentions "forty-years-and-three" as age of organ, dedicated in 1871 according to prefatory material.