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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At Easter

At Easter

Brown University

Mary J. Frame. Page [2] blank. Printed in colors on white paper; text in black and blue. On page [1] colored illustration of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene; on page [4] seal of the United Amateur Press Association. Caption title. Poem in two four-line stanzas. "Copyright The Hermitage Art Company, Chicago. Litho. in U.S.A. No. 2571." Suggested range of publication dates because several poems by Frame were published in the 1950s.

At Christmastide

At Christmastide

Brown University

Christmas card At end of text: From Harry and Helen Koopman

At Christmas time

At Christmas time

Brown University

French fold; printed on double leaves. On page [1]: Christmas greetings.

At Christmas

At Christmas

Brown University

M. A. DeW. H. At left and right of text drawings of hanging bunch of mistletoe. Poem.

At camp-fire

At camp-fire

Brown University

Cover title, within rectangular decorative border. A poem about the Civil War. At end of text: Ellen Shepard Dwinnell. Page [4] blank. Collected, with some textual, changes, in her: Verses. 1912. First line: Let us kindle our camp-fires, my comrades in blue. May have been published by the author in her home town, Fitchburg, Mass.

At camp-fire

At camp-fire

Brown University

Cover title, within rectangular decorative border. A poem about the Civil War. At end of text: Ellen Shepard Dwinnell. Page [4] blank. Collected, with some textual, changes, in her: Verses. 1912. First line: Let us kindle our camp-fires, my comrades in blue. May have been published by the author in her home town, Fitchburg, Mass.

At camp-fire

At camp-fire

Brown University

Cover title, within rectangular decorative border. A poem about the Civil War. At end of text: Ellen Shepard Dwinnell. Page [4] blank. Collected, with some textual, changes, in her: Verses. 1912. First line: Let us kindle our camp-fires, my comrades in blue. May have been published by the author in her home town, Fitchburg, Mass.

At camp-fire

At camp-fire

Brown University

Cover title, within rectangular decorative border. A poem about the Civil War. At end of text: Ellen Shepard Dwinnell. Page [4] blank. Collected, with some textual, changes, in her: Verses. 1912. First line: Let us kindle our camp-fires, my comrades in blue. May have been published by the author in her home town, Fitchburg, Mass.

At camp-fire

At camp-fire

Brown University

Cover title, within rectangular decorative border. A poem about the Civil War. At end of text: Ellen Shepard Dwinnell. Page [4] blank. Collected, with some textual, changes, in her: Verses. 1912. First line: Let us kindle our camp-fires, my comrades in blue. May have been published by the author in her home town, Fitchburg, Mass.

At camp-fire

At camp-fire

Brown University

Cover title, within rectangular decorative border. A poem about the Civil War. At end of text: Ellen Shepard Dwinnell. Page [4] blank. Collected, with some textual, changes, in her: Verses. 1912. First line: Let us kindle our camp-fires, my comrades in blue. May have been published by the author in her home town, Fitchburg, Mass.

At 21

At 21

Brown University

Euna Russell Mignault. Printed on heavy textured white paper. Poem in12 lines. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Assurance

Assurance

Brown University

Verso includes two wedding announcements

Assurance

Assurance

Brown University

Verso includes two wedding announcements

Assurance

Assurance

Brown University

Verso includes two wedding announcements

Asquamchumauk-e

Asquamchumauk-e

Brown University

John Foster, the Manchester poet. At end of text: (From The Mirror and American, [Manchester, N.H.] July 18, 1913)

Asa George Baker

Asa George Baker

Brown University

Eighteen-line poem. At end of text: By William Kimberley Palmer Chicopee, Massachusetts U.S.A. Suggested publication date from author's inscription on Brown University copy.

As though time: everyone has a destiny

As though time: everyone has a destiny

Brown University

Printed on wheat-colored paper in different sizes of type. Small vignette of skull at right of text. Place of publication and publisher information from donor.