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.
This collection is part of Brown University Library, hosted by Brown University.

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Christmas rose

Christmas rose

Brown University

Printed on heavy wheat-colored paper. At head of title vignette of candles and holly. Poem in four four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of text: By Frances M. Barney. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and acquisition date of Brown University copy.

Christmas rose

Christmas rose

Brown University

Printed on heavy wheat-colored paper. At head of title vignette of candles and holly. Poem in four four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of text: By Frances M. Barney. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and acquisition date of Brown University copy.

Christmas rose

Christmas rose

Brown University

Printed on heavy wheat-colored paper. At head of title vignette of candles and holly. Poem in four four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of text: By Frances M. Barney. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and acquisition date of Brown University copy.

Christmas reverie 1974

Christmas reverie 1974

Brown University

Page [4] blank. On page [1] engraving of Santa Claus holding clay pipe and toys. "Thomas Nast's cartoon appeared in Harper's Weekly, January 1, 1881." Caption title. Poem in five stanzas of varying length. "With hopes and good wishes at Christmas time and for the New Year." Names of author and publishers from ms. inscription on Brown University copy.

Christmas reverie 1973

Christmas reverie 1973

Brown University

A.C.H. Page [4] blank. On page [1] engraving of Santa Claus holding clay pipe and toys. "Thomas Nast's cartoon appeared in Harper's Weekly, January 1, 1881." Caption title. Poem in four four-line stanzas and final couplet. "Best wishes for a Merry Christmas for 1973 and a Happy New Year for 1974." Names of author and publishers from ms. inscription on Brown University copy.

Christmas prayer

Christmas prayer

Brown University

French fold; printed on double leaves. At end of text: By Walter Lowenfels, poet and scholar facing five years imprisonment for harboring "subversive" thoughts.

Christmas prayer

Christmas prayer

Brown University

French fold; printed on double leaves. Pages [2] and [4] blank. Silhouette illustration of family with donkey and nightscape tipped on page [1] Fourteen-line poem on page [3] At end of poem: Dr. and Mrs. Eugene E. Murphey, 1939. Suggested place of publication because Brown University copy acquired with other greeting cards from the Murpheys, one of which has their address in Augusta.

Christmas once more. The vision of Mary. Part II

Printed in two columns. At head of title prose introduction naming John J. Chapman as author of text of cantata. Text of second part of Christmas cantata to be sung by the congregation, angels, shepherds and kings. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Christmas on the sea

Christmas on the sea

Brown University

Printed in green; text within embossed border. At end of text: Richard E. Rochette, S 2/c. U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Comanche.

Christmas mystery

Christmas mystery

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Poetry. Holiday greeting printed in reddish brown and brown on tan paper. At head of text cut in medieval style of Nativity scene with shepherds. Poem "translated from a German mystery play of the Dark Ages" in six stanzas. Imprint information from dealer. At end of text: Merry Christmas, Happy New Year. First line: Now it is raw wintertime.

Christmas morning

Christmas morning

Brown University

Page [2] blank. Folded at top. Printed in dark green on cream paper. Below text on page [3] cut of little girl looking at Jesus in manger beside Virgin Mary. Caption title. Poem. At end of poem: Elizabeth Madox Roberts. "Courtesy of Viking-Penguin, Inc."

Christmas in shadow

Christmas in shadow

Brown University

Printed in red and black; rubricated initial. Poem in four four-line stanzas. Type signed at end: Bradley Gilman. At end of text: Canton, Massachusetts. December twenty-fifth, Nineteen hundred fourteen.

Christmas in New York

Christmas in New York

Brown University

ACH. Page [4] blank. On page [1] engraving of Santa Claus holding clay pipe and toys. "Thomas Nast's cartoon appeared in Harper's Weekly, January 1, 1881." Caption title. "Christmas greetings 1975." Poem in four five-line stanzas. Names of author and publishers from ms. inscription on Brown University copy.