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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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.

Christmas in California

Christmas in California

Brown University

Poetry. Pages [2-3] blank. Within ornamental architectural border inscribed: Don Lee.. Type-signed at end: Edward Roland [sic] Sill. Colophon on page [4]: Printed for Don Lee by John Henry Nash of San Francisco. By permission of Houghton Mifflin & Company, Boston & New York.

Christmas in California

Christmas in California

Brown University

Printed on orange paper in one and two columns within metallic double-line border witn green and red holly sprays at corners and rubricated initial. Tipped on tan sheet (31 x 24 cm.) bearing legend: A unique Christmas greeting. The rich effect ... is representative of the typographic results secured by J.H. Nash, of Taylor, Nash & Taylor, San Francisco. The text is from the Poems of Edward Rowland Sill ....

Christmas hymn

Christmas hymn

Brown University

Broadsheet printed in sepia on heavy paper within curvilinear border on each side. One hymn on each side, each headed: Christmas hymn. In lower margin on each side: Turn over. Suggested place and range of publication dates because Wonderful night used in 1871 in Hymns for the First Baptist Sabbath school in Providence (Brown University copy Rider RB917)

Christmas hymn

Christmas hymn

Brown University

Text of traditional English carol relating life of Christ. Text of traditional English carol relating life of Christ. Hand colored wood-engraving of manger scene at head of title. Printed in three columns. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Christmas hymn

Christmas hymn

Brown University

Printed on heavy paper within border of type ornament sections. Text of hymn in four nine-line stanzas with one-line chorus: Joy, brothers, joy! Place of publication and range of publication dates suggested because same hymn also on broadsheet with hymn Wonderful night, also used in Hymns for First Baptist Sabbath school in 1871 in Providence (Brown University copy Rider RB917)

Christmas greetings

Christmas greetings

Brown University

Mary J. Frame. Printed in colors on white paper; text in black. On page [1] colored illustration of open illustrated Bible with candles; on page [2] vignette of wall sconce with lighted candles. Caption title. Poem in two four-line stanzas. "Copyright The Hermitage Art Company, Chicago. Litho. in U.S.A. No. 4381." Suggested range of publication dates because several poems by Frame were published in the 1950s.

Christmas greetings

Christmas greetings

Brown University

Christmas card printed in green. At end of text: Elm Park Parsonage--1929.

Christmas greeting

Christmas greeting

Brown University

Pages [2] and [4] blank. Printed in gold and colors on heavy white paper with scalloped edges on three sides. Embossed and colored illustration of lilies on page [1] surround pasted-on illustration of daisies. Caption title. Poem in four lines. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Christmas Eve: a choral

Christmas Eve: a choral

Brown University

Medium blue paper; printed in deep blue. At end of text: New Canaan, Conn. December, 1913.

Christmas Eve: a choral

Christmas Eve: a choral

Brown University

Medium blue paper; printed in deep blue. At end of text: New Canaan, Conn. December, 1913.

Christmas Eve: a choral

Christmas Eve: a choral

Brown University

Medium blue paper; printed in deep blue. At end of text: New Canaan, Conn. December, 1913.

Christmas elegy for Francesca

Printed in red on ivory paper. At end of text: May Sarton / Christmas Eve 1957. Place of publication suggested by May Sarton's residency in Cambridge and type comparisons of broadsides.