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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Checkmate

Checkmate

Brown University

Excerpt from The Connoisseur

Checkmate

Checkmate

Brown University

Excerpt from The Connoisseur

Chastening

Chastening

Brown University

Grace E. Troy. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence. Printed in brown. Title at head of sheet illustrated with a rural scene of haystacks.

Chastening

Chastening

Brown University

Grace E. Troy. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence. Printed in brown. Title at head of sheet illustrated with a rural scene of haystacks.

Charm for Martha

Charm for Martha

Brown University

Richard Outram. Poem. Issued on turquoise colored paper.

Charlie Towne's hymns

Charlie Towne's hymns

Brown University

Contains four songs about Brown University graduates; the youngest from the Class of 1913. The author lived in Butte, Mont. in 1912.

Charles Sumner, of Boston

Pages [2-3] blank. Caption title. Possibly intended to be separated. At head of text paragraph beginning: "Three hundred and thirty-three members answered to their names, with the words, 'Charles Sumner, of Boston.' Suggested range of dates from internal evidence and because Sumner is not called dead in the poem.

Charles Sumner, of Boston

Poem in six four-line stanzas. At head of text prose passage beginning: "Three hundred and thirty-three members answered to their names, with the words 'Charles Sumner, of Boston.' At end of text: Eola. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and because Sumner is not called dead in the poem.

Charles Sumner, of Boston

Pages [2-3] blank. Caption title. Possibly intended to be separated. At head of text paragraph beginning: "Three hundred and thirty-three members answered to their names, with the words, 'Charles Sumner, of Boston.' Suggested range of dates from internal evidence and because Sumner is not called dead in the poem.

Charles Sumner, of Boston

Poem in six four-line stanzas. At head of text prose passage beginning: "Three hundred and thirty-three members answered to their names, with the words 'Charles Sumner, of Boston.' At end of text: Eola. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and because Sumner is not called dead in the poem.

Charles Dickens: 1812-1870

Poetry. At end of text: Dedicated to: Clara Frances Palmer ... by William Kimberley Palmer Chicopee, Massachusetts U.S.A. February 7, 1932.

Charles Bukowski Fire station

Flier, printed on red paper in black, announcing availability of the book Fire station by Charles Bukowski. Includes part of poem: We came out of the bar [first line] Imprint date from date stamped in upper right corner.

Charles Bukowski Fire station

Flier, printed on red paper in black, announcing availability of the book Fire station by Charles Bukowski. Includes part of poem: We came out of the bar [first line] Imprint date from date stamped in upper right corner.

Charity hymn

Charity hymn

Brown University

To be sung to the tune: The shining shore. Text of hymn in four numbered eight-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: F.D. Central Falls, R.I., Feb. 23, 1861.

Charity

Charity

Brown University

Printed in colors on heavy white paper. At right of text sepia illustration of woman holding small child who gives a coin to an old man. Poem in eight lines.

Charity

Charity

Brown University

Printed in colors on heavy white paper. At right of text sepia illustration of woman holding small child who gives a coin to an old man. Poem in eight lines.

Charge of the L.T.L

Charge of the L.T.L

Brown University

by B.F.M. Sours. To be sung to the tune: Hold the fort. Text of hymn in four four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: L-T-L's be strong, go forward. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence; possibly T.L. in title stands for Temperance League.