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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Boston wigwam

Boston wigwam

Brown University

composed and copyrighted 1904 by Mrs. Nellie Carleton Grover. Printed on card stock. Poem in three numbered eight-line stanzas.

Boston Museum: 39th season, 18th week

Ornamental border on page [1], double-line border on pages [2-4] On page [1] playbill for stock company's performances of Byron's Our girls and D. Boucicault starring in his The Shaughraun; general advertisements on other pages.

Boston Museum: 39th season, 18th week

Ornamental border on page [1], double-line border on pages [2-4] On page [1] playbill for stock company's performances of Byron's Our girls and D. Boucicault starring in his The Shaughraun; general advertisements on other pages.

Boston Museum: 39th season, 18th week

Ornamental border on page [1], double-line border on pages [2-4] On page [1] playbill for stock company's performances of Byron's Our girls and D. Boucicault starring in his The Shaughraun; general advertisements on other pages.

Boston Common: three pictures

Pages [1] and [4] blank. Caption title. "Lithographed facsimile of the author's fair copy of the poem ... evidently prepared in connection with the fair, which opened in Boston on November 16, 1859, held in aid of a fund to procure Ball's statue of Washington for the city, to be placed on Boston Common."--T.F. Currier. A bibliography of Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1953, p. 85. Printed on one side of a single-folded sheet. At end of poem facsimile signature: Oliver Wendell Holmes Nov. 14th 1859. "Entered according to an act of Congress, A.D. 1859, by F.H. Underwood in the Clerk's Office, of the District Court of Massachusetts."

Boplicity

Boplicity

Brown University

Printed on heavy cream paper. Poem in ten lines. Type-signed at end: Stuart Perkoff. Removed from portfolio Semina, no. 4.

Boomhower on the labor troubles

Printed in one and two columns. Prose and poetry. Includes poem in eight four-line stanzas praising Boomhower's honey. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Boom!

Boom!

Brown University

Tune: "Marching through Georgia."

Boom!

Boom!

Brown University

Tune: "Marching through Georgia."

Boom

Boom

Brown University

John M. Bennett. Printed on pink paper. Place of publication and publisher information from donor.

Books of the bible

Books of the bible

Brown University

Within single line border. Text on page 4: Presented by Mrs. A.C. Ralston, to the Alameda Baptist Sunday School. School ..

Book of poems

Book of poems

Brown University

by Hans P. Hohnsbehn. Printed in red: on page [1] within single line border.