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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Chivalrous C.S.A.!

Chivalrous C.S.A.!

Brown University

To be sung to the tune: Vive la compagnie! At end of text: Baltimore, Sept. 21, 1861. Printed on white paper with black ink, text within ornamental border. Text of song in four eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Chivalrous, chivalrous people are they. Type-signed at end: B.

Children's recreation song. No. 1

By the children's friend. Poem, in five stanzas. Printed area: 20.9 x 11 cm. At head of text: Air--"Marching along". At end of text: Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by R. Thayer, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. Text within decorative border.

Children's concerts

Children's concerts

Brown University

By F.D. To be sung to the tune: We love to sing together. Text of children's hymn in six numbered four-line stanzas with varied chorus. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Children, have ye any meat?

Title of poem from first line. At head of first line: Scripture verse John 21: 4-5. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Children, have ye any meat?

Title of poem from first line. At head of first line: Scripture verse John 21: 4-5. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Children, have ye any meat?

Title of poem from first line. At head of first line: Scripture verse John 21: 4-5. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Children who read my lay.

Broadsheet printed in gold on glossy white card stock. On recto uncaptioned colored lithograph of three children playing indoors pasted onto card within gilt ornamental border. On verso poem in four four-line stanzas Title from first line. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Children who read my lay

Broadsheet printed in gold on glossy white card stock On recto uncaptioned colored lithograph of three children playing indoors pasted onto card within gilt ornamental border.. On verso poem in four four-line stanzas. Title from first line.

Children in the wood: being a true relation of the inhuman murder of two children, of a deceased gentleman of Norfolk...

Printed in three columns. Wood-engraving of tree at left of title; also used in Coverly's broadside The happy child (cf. Brown Univ. copy HB22806/MA) Printed area measures: 22.4 x 18.5 cm. At end of last column below sectional type ornament: Printed by Nathaniel Coverly, jun. Theatre Alley. Boston directories show Coverly first at this address in 1810; variant printed by Coverly was presented to American Antiquarian Society in 1814.

Children in the wood: being a true relation of the inhuman murder of two children, of a deceased gentleman of Norfolk...

Printed in three columns. Wood-engraving of tree at left of title; also used in Coverly's broadside The happy child (cf. Brown Univ. copy HB22806/MA) Printed area measures: 22.4 x 18.5 cm. At end of last column below sectional type ornament: Printed by Nathaniel Coverly, jun. Theatre Alley. Boston directories show Coverly first at this address in 1810; variant printed by Coverly was presented to American Antiquarian Society in 1814.

Children in the wood: being a true relation of the inhuman murder of two children, of a deceased gentleman of Norfolk...

Printed in three columns. Wood-engraving of tree at left of title; also used in Coverly's broadside The happy child (cf. Brown Univ. copy HB22806/MA) Printed area measures: 22.4 x 18.5 cm. At end of last column below sectional type ornament: Printed by Nathaniel Coverly, jun. Theatre Alley. Boston directories show Coverly first at this address in 1810; variant printed by Coverly was presented to American Antiquarian Society in 1814.

Children in the wood: being a true relation of the inhuman murder of two children, of a deceased gentleman of Norfolk...

Printed in three columns. Wood-engraving of tree at left of title; also used in Coverly's broadside The happy child (cf. Brown Univ. copy HB22806/MA) Printed area measures: 22.4 x 18.5 cm. At end of last column below sectional type ornament: Printed by Nathaniel Coverly, jun. Theatre Alley. Boston directories show Coverly first at this address in 1810; variant printed by Coverly was presented to American Antiquarian Society in 1814.

Childhood remembrances: A poem that was read at the recent Old Settlers' Reunion

Printed in one and two columns divided by single line. At head of text: At the recent reunion of the Old Settlers' Union of Peoria and vicinity, a poem was read entitled "Remembrances of Childhood," which was written by A.M. Laughlin, and had been read by him at an old settlers' union at Atlanta, Ill.... Poem in 17 four-line stanzas. At end of text: It is but right to acknowledge that I am indebted for some of the above thoughts and language, to a Mrs. Snow, who wrote long ago a short poem entitled "The Old Kitchen Floor."--A.N. [i.e. M.?] L. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Child of rhyme

Child of rhyme

Brown University

Printed in blue. At head of text: (To Esther B. La Starr) Re-issued as printed in Chromatones, vol. 7, no. 4, October 1952, (editor and publisher Lyra Lu Vaile)

Chicago's royal princess of the ancient pharaohs

Concerning the mummy exhibited at "Gunther's New Confectionery" at 212 State St., Chicago, a wholesale candy factory and retail store incorporating a private museum, established by Charles Frederick Gunther in 1886; a wood engraving of the mummy case (as of 2004 in the Field Museum, Chicago) is printed above the title. Includes two poems, p. [4]: "The mummy of Sesostris. With M. Maspero in the Boulak Museum, Cairo, June 1, 1886", by H.D. Raunsley (first line: Among his perfumed wrappings Ram'ses lay); and "Address to a mummy of Thebes", by Horace Smith (first line: And thou hast walk'd about (how strange a story)). Conjectural date based on Gunther's confectionery being "new". Printed in two columns.

Chicago

Chicago

Brown University

Broadsheet; printed on yellow paper.

Cheer! Brothers, cheer!: Campaign song, 1896

Poetry without music in three numbered four-line stanzas with chorus, beginning: Cheer! brothers, cheer! for we are coming. Type-signed at end of text: Geo. H. Barnes. To be sung to the tune: Tramp, tramp, tramp.