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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Battle of Fort Sumter

Battle of Fort Sumter

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line within ornamental border. Poem in ten numbered four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: William Rice. Rice City, Coventry, April 12, 1861.

Battle of Cedar Creek, October 19th, 1864

Printed in two columns divided by single line. Text of song in 13 four-line stanzas with two line varies chorus usually beginning: Get out of the way says Gen. Early. Author's name not on item.

Battle hymn of the Republic

By Mrs. Julia Ward Howe. At head of title vignette of seated draped female (Liberty or Columbia) holding liberty cap on pole and striped shield; eagle with wings spread stands in front of her. Text of song in five four-line stanzas with chorus beginning: Glory, glory, hallelujah!

Battle cry of liberty

Battle cry of liberty

Brown University

At end of text: Respectfully dedicated to the fighting boys of the U.S.A. and "Allies"

Bates co-ed

Bates co-ed

Brown University

Processed copy. Contains seven songs about Bates College.

Bates co-ed

Bates co-ed

Brown University

Processed copy. Contains seven songs about Bates College.

Basin Harbor Lodge, Vermont August twenty-fifth: 1849 - "My birthday" - 1934

Poem talks of the author's eighty-fifth birthday, the Basin Harbor Lodge on Lake Champlain, and driving an Air Flow Chrysler. Poem talks of the author's eighty-fifth birthday, the Basin Harbor Lodge on Lake Champlain, and driving an Air Flow Chrysler. Poetry in eighteen lines printed within single-line border in brown on beige hand made paper. At end of text: William Franklin Cushman, 110 Coolidge Street, Brookline, Mass.

Baseball songs, 1905

Baseball songs, 1905

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Caption title. Text of seven Yale athletic songs, beginning with: Boola.

Barney leave the girls alone, and The woodman's hut

Poetry and prose. Printed in two columns divided by ruled line of advertising: Sold wholesale and retail, by J.G. & H. Hunt, at N.E. corner of Faneuil Hall Market, Boston. At head of title: woodcut of dining scene. Variant of Ford 2965. First song interspersed with spoken monologue. Second poem ascribed to Charles Ward by Thomas L. Philbrick in "British authorship of ballads in the Isaiah Thomas collection," Studies in bibliography, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, v. 9, 1957, p. 255-258.

Barney Brallaghan, and Mistress Callaghan

Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. Between first and second lines of title, wood-engraving of flying bird holding Irish harp in beak. At end of text, below double rule: Printed and sold wholesale and retail by Christian Brown, No. 211 Water-st. five doors from Fulton-street New-York. Brown used this address from 1825 to 1829 and from 1832 to 1833. Comic Irish song.

Barking at shadows

Barking at shadows

Brown University

At end of text: Christmas 1969. White paper printed and illustrated in gray, black, and red; printed as a Christmas greeting.

Barbara Fritchie

Barbara Fritchie

Brown University

by John Greenleaf Whittier. Printed on heavy paper in postcard format. Text at left on recto, in two columns; at right, four colored illustrations captioned: Her flag, Her relics, Barbara Fritchie, and Her home.

Barbara Frietchie

Barbara Frietchie

Brown University

Photographed by Brady & Co., 352 Penna. Ave., Washington, for the Great National Fair. Card, printed on both sides. Recto: Mounted photograph (80 x 56 mm.) of "Barbara Frietchie" followed by 4 lines of the poem, separated by a single rule from the photographer's statement. Verso: Continuation of the poem, with text set solid.

Baptismal hymn

Baptismal hymn

Brown University

by C.D. Bradlee. At head of text: Helen Curtis Bradlee, Jacob Weld Seaver, and Susan Seaver, received baptism at the hands of Rev. E.E. Hale, Dec. 25th, 1875. The following hymn was written in commemoration of the event.

Baptism at the coffin's head

Pages [2-4] blank. Printed on colored paper. At head of text: "Agreeably to her request, her little babe was baptized at the head of the coffin of its mother." .. First line: Lieth here beneath her shroud.

Baptism

Baptism

Brown University

Within ornamental border printed in blue. At head of text: Dedicated to the candidates baptized in the First Baptist Church, Fall River, April 1st, 1866.

Baptism

Baptism

Brown University

Within ornamental border printed in blue. At head of text: Dedicated to the candidates baptized in the First Baptist Church, Fall River, April 1st, 1866.

Banner song

Banner song

Brown University

Tune: Flag of our Union. Within ornamental border.