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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Dansville

Dansville

Brown University

by Charles E. Shepard. Broadsheet; original dimensions not known. On recto reproduction of photograph of village street; on verso reproduction of photograph of General Reeve and one of children's room in library. Poem on recto. On verso information about library in Dansville, beginning: July 18, 1874. Suggested publication date from latest date mentioned on verso.

Daniel Decatur Emmett

Daniel Decatur Emmett

Brown University

Printed in black on beige paper. Signed at the bottom: "William Kimberley Palmer"

Dangerous games

Dangerous games

Brown University

Carolyn Kizer. Cream paper printed in black. Printed in facsimile hand-writing with facsimile of author's signature. Poem in five stanzas.

Dangerous games

Dangerous games

Brown University

Carolyn Kizer. Cream paper printed in black. Printed in facsimile hand-writing with facsimile of author's signature. Poem in five stanzas.

Dame Durden, and Tom Bolin

Printed in two columns divided by ruled line of advertising, with type ornaments at each end. Sold, wholesale and retail, by L. Deming, No. 62, Hanover Street, 2d door from Friend Street, Boston

Daily surrender

Daily surrender

Brown University

Within single line border. At end of text: The Fellowship of Saint Luke ..

Dada in exile

Dada in exile

Brown University

White paper printed in blue in postcard format. Type-signed at end of poem: By Jerry Madson.

Da Vis

Da Vis

Brown University

by Quien Sabe? Poetry in six six-line stanzas within double-line border. Cut of Maryland flag between title and author's name. At end of text: Baltimore, Feb. 10, 1862. "Quien Sabe" is a pseudonym for N.G. Ridgely.

D-e-m-o-c-r-a-c-y

D-e-m-o-c-r-a-c-y

Brown University

At head of title: Copyright 1917 by John F. O'Malley. December 1st, 1917. Title.

D-Day

D-Day

Brown University

Author autograph.

Czecho-Slovakia

Czecho-Slovakia

Brown University

Poem in three four-line stanzas and one two-line stanza. Type-signed at end of text: William Kimberley Palmer. Chicopee, Massachusetts U.S.A. Suggested publication date from author's inscription dated Jan. 4th, 1928 on Brown University copy.

Cyril Connolly, November 1974

Poetry. Printed on tan paper. Cover title: Stephen Spender. Photograph of Spender by Gerard Malanga on page [1] Colophon on page [4]: Issued in an edition of 300 copies on the occasion of a reading by the poet at The University of Connecticut Library on December 2, 1975.

Cyril Connolly, November 1974

Poetry. Printed on tan paper. Cover title: Stephen Spender. Photograph of Spender by Gerard Malanga on page [1] Colophon on page [4]: Issued in an edition of 300 copies on the occasion of a reading by the poet at The University of Connecticut Library on December 2, 1975.

Cupid's new mottos

Cupid's new mottos

Brown University

Probably intended to be separated, because title and imprint printed on both printed pages; pages [1] and [4] blank. Printed in six columns. Five hundred seventy-six two-line rhymes on love and courtship, some humorous; on page [2] separate columns for gentlemen's and ladies' questions and answers; on page [3] groups of mottoes to be spoken by gentlemen and ladies.

Cupid's new mottos

Cupid's new mottos

Brown University

Probably intended to be separated, because title and imprint printed on both printed pages; pages [1] and [4] blank. Printed in six columns. Five hundred seventy-six two-line rhymes on love and courtship, some humorous; on page [2] separate columns for gentlemen's and ladies' questions and answers; on page [3] groups of mottoes to be spoken by gentlemen and ladies.

Cupid's bazaar

Cupid's bazaar

Brown University

Pages [2], [3], and [4] blank. Processed copy. Within ornamental border. At end of text: Early Valentine (Mid-nineteenth century) Whittemore's Authentic Reproductions. Valentine No. 1.