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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Conceive him if you can

Conceive him if you can

Brown University

1 broadsheet. On verso: Advertisement for New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad. Advertising card has colored illustration of railroad car with passengers and conductor. Date from internal evidence.

Comrades, carry on!: a marching song

Printed in red and blue within double line border. At head of title colored illustration of the American flag. Cover title. On page [1]: Dedicated to the American Army. Text of song in four eight-line stanzas with ten-line chorus beginning: Comrades, carry on! carry on! for we'll soon be over there!

Comrades, carry on!: a marching song

Printed in red and blue within double line border. At head of title colored illustration of the American flag. Cover title. On page [1]: Dedicated to the American Army. Text of song in four eight-line stanzas with ten-line chorus beginning: Comrades, carry on! carry on! for we'll soon be over there!

Comrades, carry on!: a marching song

Printed in red and blue within double line border. At head of title colored illustration of the American flag. Cover title. On page [1]: Dedicated to the American Army. Text of song in four eight-line stanzas with ten-line chorus beginning: Comrades, carry on! carry on! for we'll soon be over there!

Comrades ever

Comrades ever

Brown University

At head of title flanked by shields bearing legend "Y.P.S.L.": Young People's Socialist League. At end of text: This folder is the property of ... Please return when finished using it. (Ms. addition Y.P.S.L. Prov., R.I.)

Composed on the death of Thomas Hoff, Sen

by Phoebe Seabold. Printed in one and two columns. Poem in eleven numbered four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Compliments of your letter carrier, January 1, 1871

Within double-line border with ornamental corners on page [1], single-line borders on pages [2]-[3], double-line border on page [4] Cover title. In lower margin on page [1] below border: Livingston, Printer. Includes poem in nine eight-line stanzas. Includes names of postal employees and information about rules, rates and hours.

Compliments of Edwd Ridley & Sons

1 broadsheet. Broadsheet printed on card stock. Colored lithograph of Santa Claus with children on recto; on verso poem by W.P. Palmer entitled: The smack in school. At end of poem: 361 Speaker. Author's name not on item.

Compliments of Edwd Ridley & Sons

1 broadsheet. Broadsheet printed on card stock. Colored lithograph of Santa Claus with children on recto; on verso poem by W.P. Palmer entitled: The smack in school. At end of poem: 361 Speaker. Author's name not on item.

Compliments of Edwd Ridley & Sons

1 broadsheet. Broadsheet printed on card stock. Colored lithograph of Santa Claus with children on recto; on verso poem by W.P. Palmer entitled: The smack in school. At end of poem: 361 Speaker. Author's name not on item.

Compliments of Albert's Buckhorn Saloon, San Antonio, Texas

Broadsheet folded to create [6] pages. All pages except the first and last within single-line border. On page [1] reproduction of photograph of mounted deer head with 78 points; on last page reproduction of photograph of Albert Friedrich, owner of Albert's Buckhorn Saloon. Brochure describes the saloon's collection of horns and includes two poems.

Complimentary to the steamer Niagara

Within border of type ornaments, printed in two columns. Describes life of 50th Massachusetts soldiers from Haverhill quartered on steamer Niagara.