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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Dog and gun: and, The roving bachelor

Poetry within border of type ornaments, printed in two columns, divided by curvilinear line. Cut of landscape and hunter at head of text in first column, captioned "Coat, waistcoat, and small clothes, this lady put on, and a hunting she went with her dog and gun" In lower margin below border: Sold wholesale and retail by J.G. Hunt, at the head of city wharf, South side; the firm's listed location in 1836.

Documentation for the January, 1953 issue of National Parent-Teacher Magazine

Processed copy; two perforations for insertion in ring binder. Lists authors and editors of issue, referring to Chafee and other authors mentioned in magazine and their "Communist front organizations"; mentions House Committee on Un-American Activities and California Un-American Activities reports On page 4: reprint of Langston Hughes's Goodbye Christ, called a "horrible poem." First line of poem: Listen Christ

Doctor Seth Arnold's Balsam: Arnold's Arnica & Hemlock Plasters, Gilman's Pulmonary Troches

Poetry and humor interspersed with testimonials for Arnold's patent medicine. Poetry and humor interspersed with testimonials for Arnold's patent medicine. Pages [1]-[3] printed in three columns divided by single lines within double-line border; page [4] in one column within double-line border. Three coats of arms with G in lower field (perhaps for Gilman) at head of title. Title and subtitle from rebus at head of text on page [1]; advice by B. Franklin printed as rebus on page [4] Place of publication from address of proprietor of Gilman's Troches, date from date of latest testimonial.

Doctor Miriam is coming

Doctor Miriam is coming

Brown University

Printed in black, dark blue and reddish-brown on recto, sky-blue on verso in postcard format. Vignettes of butterflies on either side of text on recto, within border of type ornaments; printed stamp on verso with head of John Hanson, Patriot. Title from first line. Poem in five lines. "This postalcard effort is printed by Toby Olson at the Perishable Press Limited on the twelfth of May." Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Do you talk in your sleep?

John M. Bennett. Printed on pink paper. Illustration of hamburger at right. Printed vertically in left margin: You can make your face. Place of publication and publisher information from donor.

Do what you can

Do what you can

Brown University

By Mrs. J. M'Nair Wright. At head of title cut of two young women seated under a tree. Caption title. In upper right corner of page [1]: No. 84. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Do they miss me at home?

In upper left corner: 82. Text of song in four nine-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Do something for somebody

Printed in red and green on heavy paper in postcard format; line of type ornaments at top and bottom; initial block; text on verso in green. Type-signed at end of poem: J.S. Cutler. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Do it now

Do it now

Brown University

Broadsheet printed in black on white paper. On recto "Do it now" in block and lower block of text surrounded by floral design and two torches: Suggestion is a magazine of the new psychology for health, happiness and success. Send postal for sample. 4020 Drexel Blvd., Chicago. On verso, headed: Do it now, poem in 14 lines. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Do it

Do it

Brown University

Within ornamental border.

Dixie's land: An Ethiopian "walk round"

Within border of type ornament sections. Text of song in six six-line stanzas with five-line chorus beginning: Den I wish I was in Dixie. This edition not in Wolf, American song sheets. Ascribed to D.D. Emmett; entered under title rather than author. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Divining rod

Divining rod

Brown University

Louise Scott. Within double-line border; lines of type ornaments above and below border. Poem in four stanzas of varying length. "Reprinted from the Educational forum, January, 1966."

Diversity of character

Diversity of character

Brown University

Pope. Printed on yellow paper in two columns. Poem in 16 four-line stanzas. Poem refers to town of Columbia in unnamed state. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Distressing fire at Salmon Falls

Poem describes fatal fire in seven-story building, probably a factory. Poem describes fatal fire in seven-story building, probably a factory. Written by Miss M. Robinson. Printed in two columns. Poem in fifteen four-line stanzas. Place of publication suggested because a Salmon Falls in New Hampshire had mills in the 19th century; date suggested from date of fire given in poem.

Disowned

Disowned

Brown University

by Antonio Arrighi. Poetry. Within single line border with ornamental corners. Note at head of text calls author a young man who came to America in 1855 and was converted to Protestantism. Publication date suggested because of author's youth.

Dismal Swamp!

Dismal Swamp!

Brown University

Within border of type ornament sections (Auner-Johnson border in Wolf) Poem in four ten-line stanzas. Author's name not on item. Place of publication suggested because border used by two Philadelphia publishers, A.W. Auner and J.H. Johnson. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence. By Thomas Moore; entered under title rather than author.

Disclosures of factory life

Complains of bad working conditions and low pay in factories. Complains of bad working conditions and low pay in factories. Printed in two columns divided by single line within border of type ornament sections. At head of text: Copyright secured by M. Young. Text of song in 20 eight-line stanzas with eight-line chorus beginning: Ring, ring the bell. To be sung to the tune: Little Nell of Narragansett Bay. Suggested place of publication because poem names Manchester cotton print works and Manchester Locomotive works. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence; mention of the "pitied Southern slave" suggests it is before the Civil War.

Discipline

Discipline

Brown University

At head of text: The following lines were read at the funeral of Miss D.M. Kendall, March 27th, 1880. At end of text: Catherine Winkworth, 1858.

Disappearing

Disappearing

Brown University

David Clewell. Printed on heavy wheat-colored paper in postcard format. Colophon on verso: This poem is from Room to breathe by David Clewell. It is available ... from Pentagram Press ... Milwaukee, Wisc. Suggested date from publication date of book.

Disappearing

Disappearing

Brown University

David Clewell. Printed on heavy wheat-colored paper in postcard format. Colophon on verso: This poem is from Room to breathe by David Clewell. It is available ... from Pentagram Press ... Milwaukee, Wisc. Suggested date from publication date of book.