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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Awake! Ye men in Washington: by J. F. Kemp, Seymour, Texas

Poem attacks "goon-squad racketeers" who hinder war effort by upholding 40-hour week in war industries. Poem attacks "goon-squad racketeers" who hinder war effort by upholding 40-hour week in war industries. Printed in two columns. First line same as title. Poem in 17 numbered six-line stanzas. Suggested publication date from Kemp's printed letter accompanying Brown University copy and dated: Seymour, Texas, March 11, 1942.

Awake! America

Awake! America

Brown University

By R.G. Beals. Cover title. Title on page 1 within decorative border. Imprint on page 2: Copyright 1918, by R.G. Beals, Taylorville, Illinois. Single copies, 10c. Page 4 blank.

Awake, America, awake! and other poems

by George B. Cranston, Mount Kisco, N.Y. Printed in four columns. Contains text of five songs beginning with Awake, America, awake! Copyright date from Library of Congress stamp on Brown University copy;

Awake, America, awake! and other poems

by George B. Cranston, Mount Kisco, N.Y. Printed in four columns. Contains text of five songs beginning with Awake, America, awake! Copyright date from Library of Congress stamp on Brown University copy;

Awake, America, awake! and other poems

by George B. Cranston, Mount Kisco, N.Y. Printed in four columns. Contains text of five songs beginning with Awake, America, awake! Copyright date from Library of Congress stamp on Brown University copy;

Awake in Dixie

Awake in Dixie

Brown University

Within double-line border. Original dimensions of trimmed Brown University copy not known. To be sung to the tune: Dixie's land. Text of song in eight six-line stanzas with six-line chorus beginning: Oh fly to arms in Dixie! Type-signed at end of text: Winchester, Va., Feb. 24, 1862. H.T.S.

Avec poe dog and t.v

Avec poe dog and t.v

Brown University

Poetry. Printed in black and magenta on cream-colored paper. At end of text: Anselm Hollo. Colophon on verso: 100 cc. joujouka toujours poltroon press, berk. 16.ii.77. First line: Deliberate wreck of enormous tanker.

Avec poe dog and t.v

Avec poe dog and t.v

Brown University

Poetry. Printed in black and magenta on cream-colored paper. At end of text: Anselm Hollo. Colophon on verso: 100 cc. joujouka toujours poltroon press, berk. 16.ii.77. First line: Deliberate wreck of enormous tanker.

Autumnal

Autumnal

Brown University

Page [2] blank. French fold; printed in brown on double page on wheat-colored paper. Caption title. On page [1] reproduction of photograph of man's head. Type-signed at end of poem: Tom Meyer.

Autumnal

Autumnal

Brown University

Page [2] blank. French fold; printed in brown on double page on wheat-colored paper. Caption title. On page [1] reproduction of photograph of man's head. Type-signed at end of poem: Tom Meyer.

Autumn: Ballade to decrepitude

Cover title. Poetry in twenty-eight lines. Pages [2] and [4] blank. Imprint at bottom of page [1]: Grey Bow Press, 1927. According to a xeroxed printed bibliography of the Press by Baughman (See Brown U. Harris 1926 BA9154o) the ballad was written and set by Baughman and printed by Gregg Anderson.

Autumn tithes

Autumn tithes

Brown University

by C.F. MacIntyre. Poetry. French fold; printed on double page. Printed in black and green; title within border of type ornaments. "One hundred copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press in Pasadena on October 3, 1949, for members of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco and other friends of Larry Powell."

Auto woes

Auto woes

Brown University

Poem in six alternating stanzas of five and four lines. Type signed at end of poem: Harold Rexford. In purple ink below type signature: Copyright 1906 by Harold Rexford Hewitt.

Australia at the Philadelphia Centennial

Printed in gold on dark blue. At head of text: Reprinted from The Queenslander. At end of text: Hector Orr. Philadelphia, June 10, 1876. The manuscript of the above was mailed at Philadelphia ... and the number of the Queenslander, ... containing the verses, was received ... in Philadelphia ...