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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April

April

Brown University

Within single line border with ornamental corners. Verso contains flower illustration.

Apple blossom

Apple blossom

Brown University

Maurizio Nannucci. Printed on heavy paper that is red on recto, white on verso; textr on recto in red calligraphy; text on verso in black. Title, author's name, imprint information, series statement and address of press on verso. Thirteen-line poem on recto.

Apple blossom

Apple blossom

Brown University

Maurizio Nannucci. Printed on heavy paper that is red on recto, white on verso; textr on recto in red calligraphy; text on verso in black. Title, author's name, imprint information, series statement and address of press on verso. Thirteen-line poem on recto.

Appeal to friends

Appeal to friends

Brown University

Former maker of hoes describes accidental loss of right arm and offers poems for sale. Former maker of hoes describes accidental loss of right arm and offers poems for sale. By F. Emmons. Within border of type ornaments. At head of text: Leonardsville, January 31, 1860. Poem in thirteen four-line stanzas and one seven-line stanza.

Appeal

Appeal

Brown University

Poetry and prose. Within red ruled border; title on page [1] with ornamental red initial. At end of text: Samuel G. Howe, President.

Apostles' Creed

Apostles' Creed

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments. In lower margin: Menno B. Weaver, Ephrata R.D. No. 3. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and acquisition date of Brown University copy.

Apology: No trust

Apology: No trust

Brown University

Within border of type ornament sections. Poem in six four-line stanzas. At end of text below rule: Try Hoofland's German Bitters for dyspepsia. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Apology for love

Apology for love

Brown University

Kathleen Tankersley Young; drawing by Jane Berlandina. Pages [1] and [4] blank. Bound in blue illustrated, and lettered cover.

Antiquity's alive

Antiquity's alive

Brown University

Charles Philbrick. Broadsheet. One poem on recto, another on verso. "Reprinted from the Western humanities review, Vol. XVI, No. 2, Spring, 1962."

Anti-spiritualism

Anti-spiritualism

Brown University

By a working carpenter. Within ornamental border, printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line. At end of text: Portland, Me., January 1856 Price 3 cts.