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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Billy Boy, can you row the boat a-shore

Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments; one poem in each column. At head of second column, two wood-engravings, one of two young men walking, the other of a young man in a sailboat. Printed area: 18 x 19.2 cm. Not in Evans, Shaw & Shoemaker, Sabin, Bristol or Ford.

Billy Barlow!

Billy Barlow!

Brown University

Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. Comic song in 24 four-line stanzas. At end of text: Printed and sold 134 Division-Street, N.Y. Elton printed at this address in 1833

Billy Barlow

Billy Barlow

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by line of ruled advertising with type ornaments at beginning and end. At head of first column, below title, wood-engraving of ragged man holding paper headed: Loafer. Printed area measures: 20.3 x 14.5 cm. Text between columns: Sold, wholesale and retail, by Leonard Deming, at the Sign of the Barber's Pole, No. 61, Hanover Street, Boston, and at Middlebury, Vt. Poem in 22 five-line stanzas with refrain: O dear, raggeddy ho, is it not hard, &c. Poem mentions places in Boston but uses name of Billy Barlow, a Londoner who died in Whitechapel workhouse--cf. Reader's handbook, London, 1911, p. 120. Deming used this address from 1837 to 1840.

Billings' poems: never before published

Printed in five columns divided by single lines; rules between poems. Twenty-seven poems, including a carriers' address for 1853, and poems about Newbury, Vt. and Poughkeepsie.

Billings' poems: never before published

Printed in five columns divided by single lines; rules between poems. Twenty-seven poems, including a carriers' address for 1853, and poems about Newbury, Vt. and Poughkeepsie.

Billings' poems: never before published

Printed in five columns divided by single lines; rules between poems. Twenty-seven poems, including a carriers' address for 1853, and poems about Newbury, Vt. and Poughkeepsie.

Billings' poems: never before published

Printed in five columns divided by single lines; rules between poems. Twenty-seven poems, including a carriers' address for 1853, and poems about Newbury, Vt. and Poughkeepsie.

Billings' poems: never before published

Printed in five columns divided by single lines; rules between poems. Twenty-seven poems, including a carriers' address for 1853, and poems about Newbury, Vt. and Poughkeepsie.

Bijin

Bijin

Brown University

Printed in black on peach Arches paper; title in purple. Colophon on verso: 30 copies printed in November 1974 at the Arif Press. At end of text: Kevin Power. First line: Beautiful women.

Bicentennial and centennial poems

by] Milford E. Shields. Title supplied. At end of text: Printed in the Congressional Record and in the Journals of the Colorado Legislature.

Beyond the sunrise

Beyond the sunrise

Brown University

Printed in green with floral garland framing title and first verse.

Beyond

Beyond

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Printed in green. Upper text bordered by flower garland.

Beware!

Beware!

Brown University

by Edward Carswell. At head of title cut of snake in tree and two flying birds. Caption title. In upper right corner of page [1]: No. 44. Poetry and prose. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Between hills and lake

Between hills and lake

Brown University

Printed on green paper. Printed as "Prologue" in his Ithaca, Ithaca, N.Y., 1962.