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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To my dog

To my dog

Brown University

Within single line border. Printed on light green board.

To my daughter

To my daughter

Brown University

Printed in brown on heavy ivory paper; illustration in pink and green. At upper left colored illustration of rose. Poem in two four-line stanzas. At end of text: cEmma E. Koehler, Chicago. 131. No. 131 of untitled series. Publication date from Library of Congress date stamp on Brown University copy.

To my darling

To my darling

Brown University

Printed in red, sepia and copper on heavy paper in postcard format. At head of text sepia reproduction of posed photograph on each postcard, standing woman and man driving carriage on first, three women watching man reading on bench on second and eloping couple with ladder on third; title in copper heart in upper right corner. Below photograph different four-line poem in red on each postcard. In lower left corner on each card: Copyrighted 1908 by I. Grollman.

To my darling

To my darling

Brown University

Printed in red, sepia and copper on heavy paper in postcard format. At head of text sepia reproduction of posed photograph on each postcard, standing woman and man driving carriage on first, three women watching man reading on bench on second and eloping couple with ladder on third; title in copper heart in upper right corner. Below photograph different four-line poem in red on each postcard. In lower left corner on each card: Copyrighted 1908 by I. Grollman.

To my darling

To my darling

Brown University

Printed in red, sepia and copper on heavy paper in postcard format. At head of text sepia reproduction of posed photograph on each postcard, standing woman and man driving carriage on first, three women watching man reading on bench on second and eloping couple with ladder on third; title in copper heart in upper right corner. Below photograph different four-line poem in red on each postcard. In lower left corner on each card: Copyrighted 1908 by I. Grollman.

To Mrs. Mary H. Gilbert on her hundredth birthday

To Mrs. Mary H. Gilbert on her hundredth birthday

Brown University

Poem in six four-line stanzas. Printed in brown. At end of text: S.A.B. Author's name and place of publication from annotations on Brown University copy; suggested range of dates from internal evidence.