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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Come in, Ephraim

Come in, Ephraim

Brown University

Broadsheet. Printed in brown. On verso poem entitled An acrostic; the first letters of each line spell out Rising Sun Stove Polish. On recto colored illustration of black couple with stove; caption begins: Come in, Ephraim. Date from internal evidence.

Come in, Ephraim

Come in, Ephraim

Brown University

Broadsheet. Printed in brown. On verso poem entitled An acrostic; the first letters of each line spell out Rising Sun Stove Polish. On recto colored illustration of black couple with stove; caption begins: Come in, Ephraim. Date from internal evidence.

Come home, father

Come home, father

Brown University

1 broadsheet. At head of text: We have listened to many eloquent and touching temperance appeals ..

Come home, father

Come home, father

Brown University

Printed in one and two columns divided by curvilinear line within border of type ornament sections. Includes text of two temperance songs and two children's hymns in upper part. Lower part, headed: Pianos, organ, melodeons! contains advertising for sale and rental of musical instruments from L.L. Harmon, Portsmouth, N.H. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Come back to Boston

Come back to Boston

Brown University

Text within ornamental border with reproduction of photograph of Boston Public Library and drawing of ship at end of text. To be sung to the tune: Come back to Erin. Text of song in two eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Then, come back to Boston, where'er ye are dwelling. Type-signed at end: C. Selwyn Worrell.

Come back again, my honey

Printed in gold and colors on heavy glossy paper in postcard format. At head of title full-color reproduction of photograph of city street scene with tall buildings and elevated railroad. Title from first line. Three lines of verse urging return to "dear old Manhattan Isle." Printed vertically in red in left margin: Photo only copyrighted 1907. De Witt C. Wheeler. On verso: Illustrated Song Serie No. 1812. By permission of the publishers, Francis, Day & Hunter, New York. Publ. by Theodor Eismann, New York. Printed in Germany.

Come all ye Revelers! - Dance the night

Advertisement for the sixteenth annual Greenwich Village Ball. Advertisement for the sixteenth annual Greenwich Village Ball. Title from first line. Printed in black on green paper. Illustration of dancing couple in costum at head of title on page [1]; of black trio at top of page [4]

Come

Come

Brown University

Poetry in 6 six-line stanzas. Within double ruled border.

Columbia's centennial greeting: a cantata

Poem by Samuel C. Upham. Music omitted. Text within double line border; printed in red and blue. On page [1] between words of title illustration of Columbia holding American flag. Cover title. Poem on pages [2]-[3]; advertising material on page [4]

Columbia's centennial greeting: a cantata

Poem by E. Pluribus Unum. Music omitted. Text on pages [1] through [3] within double line border; printed in red and blue. Page [4] without border with cut of Liberty Bell captioned: "Proclaim liberty throughout the land, to all the inhabitants thereof." and colophon: Gulbertson & Bache, Prs. 8th & Jayne Sts. Phila.

Columbia, the home of the free

At head of text: By George Coronway (author of "The Battle of Manila") who died at his home on September 28, 1902.

Columbia, the home of the free

At head of text: By George Coronway (author of "The Battle of Manila") who died at his home on September 28, 1902.

Columbia, a national song

Pages [1,4] blank. Printed on yellow paper. At head of text: Most respectfully dedicated to Jules Benedict, Esq. by his humble servant, The Author.

Columbia is calling for thee

by Dr. Dan Harris. Printed in dark blue on glossy white paper. Text of song in four four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: They are calling, calling to us. Publication date from Library of Congress stamp on Brown University copy.

Columbia

Columbia

Brown University

by William Kimberley Palmer. Printed in sepia on cream paper. Cover title. Poem in eight four-line stanzas.

Columbia

Columbia

Brown University

by William Kimberley Palmer. Printed in sepia on cream paper. Cover title. Poem in eight four-line stanzas.