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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Dedication hymn

Dedication hymn

Brown University

by George Kent. For the Congregational Church, Durham, N.H., Sept. 13, 1849. Within border of type ornament sections. Text of hymn in six four-line stanzas.

Dedication hymn

Dedication hymn

Brown University

At head of text: Written for the dedication service of the Free Evangelical Church, Hope St., Providence.

Dedication hymn

Dedication hymn

Brown University

Text of hymn in three numbered eight-line stanzas. Hymn dedicates "this Hall" in memory of Civil War dead. Suggested place and date of publication from dealer.

Dedication hymn

Dedication hymn

Brown University

Tune: "Duke Street" Within double line border. At head of title: Thompson Family Association. At end of text: C.E.T. 1914. Other Thompson family re-union material refer to Ellington, Conn., as site for their re-unions.

Dedication and installation

Within ornamental border printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line. At head of first column: Order of service at the dedication of the Universalist Church, Foxborough, Mass. Wednesday, October 4th, 1843. At head of second column: Order of service at the installation of Rev. C.W. Mellen, as pastor of the Universalist Society in Foxborough.

Dedham muster; or, Striped pig: and, Alice Gray

Printed in two columns, divided by ruled line of advertising, with type ornaments at each end: Sold, by L. Deming, at the sign of the barber's pole, No. 61, Hanover Street, Boston, and at Middlebury, Vt. Leonard Deming was at address in Boston from 1837 to 1840.

Dedham muster; or, Striped pig: and, Alice Gray

Printed in two columns, divided by ruled line of advertising, with type ornaments at each end: Sold, by L. Deming, at the sign of the barber's pole, No. 61, Hanover Street, Boston, and at Middlebury, Vt. Leonard Deming was at address in Boston from 1837 to 1840.

Decoration ode

Decoration ode

Brown University

Air: Portuguese hymn. Within border of type ornaments. First line: They rest from their conflict, their labor is ended.

Decoration Day!

Decoration Day!

Brown University

Printed in three columns divided by single lines. Wood-engraving of soldier at head of first column and of woman's head in center column. Contains advertisement for DeWolfe's verses.