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.
Bruce Bawer. Poetry. Printed on cream paper; title in blue-gray; right edge of page [1] deckled. First line same as title. Colophon on page [4]: There are 200 copies of this keepsake printed from Spectrum types by Michael Peich at the Aralia Press. One hundred forty copies are on Letterpress Text. Sixty copies ... are on Rives Heavy, numbered, and signed by the author.
Title from first line. Pages [2-3] blank. Illus. in orange, black and gold. On page [4] Impression leaflets. Edited by Paul Elder. Designed by Harold Sichel ..
Printed in red, green, tan and black on heavy white paper within decorative border on page [1]; colored design on page [2] Title from first line. Type-signed at end: Walt Whitman.
Printed in red, green, tan and black on heavy white paper within decorative border on page [1]; colored design on page [2] Title from first line. Type-signed at end: Walt Whitman.
Broadsheet. Poetry. Advertising flyer printed on yellow paper in brown with detachable upper one-fourth bearing legend: Open Places, Box 2353, Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri 65201. At end of poem: Rosmarie Waldrop. On verso: in upper fourth, order form; in lower three fourths printed horizontally advertising for her "The aggressive ways of the casual stranger" First line: If I believe only what I see I'm bulging.
Printed in red and black on heavy paper in postcard format within wavy red border. At head of title reproduction of landscape photograph captioned: Deering's Oaks, Portland, Me. Title from first line of five-line stanza. Type-signed at end: Longfellow. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Printed on pink paper. At head of title illustration of horseshoe inscribed: Good luck. Poem in three eight-line stanzas. At end of poem: Very truly yours, Miss Lottie Smith. Price: Anything you wish to give. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Pages [1] and [4] blank. Poetry in 6 four-line stanzas captioned "Hymn" on page [3] Title with date and place on page [2] Author's name not on piece. AUthor attribution from a letter written March 24, 1936, by Harvard College Library Assistant Librarian Walter B. Briggs: The 'Cambridge Chronicle' for May 6, 1876 gives the poem; it does not state the author. The 'Cambridge Press' for May 6, 1876 states that "All present sang to the tune of 'Old Hundred" an original hymn, written by Mr. John Owen". Without question, Mr. John Owen was the author.
Humorous poem about disputes in Danvers about taxation and new schoolhouse. Humorous poem about disputes in Danvers about taxation and new schoolhouse. Printed in two columns divided by single line. Poem in 23 four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication date from reference to Kansas and 'bleeding Danvers", referring to pre-Civil War conflict in "bleeding Kansas."
Poetry Poetry Printed in two columns Type-signed at end: T-3 Jerome Z. Litt, U.S. Army. Hay Broadsds Harris copy: Ms. signature "T/4 Frederick E. Altieri, U.S. Army"; stamped "Rec'd JAN 16 1946. Ans'd [blank]"; fold traces.
Caption title. Poetry in thirty-two lines printed in black on lavender paper. Typesigned at end: Leonard Randolph. Colophon in lower margin: Set at NewCompGraphics, Beyond Baroqie Foundation, Venice, Ca. Possible range of dates suggested by internal evidence.
Poetry. Printed in black on buff paper with gray deckled lower edge. At end of poem: Jonathan Williams. Colophon at end: One hundred copies of this unpublished poem handset and printed at the Bibliographical Press--Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, New Haven 1977. First line: This is your Aunt.
At head of text: The following specimen of ingenious versification was published in a Philadelphia paper while the fate of Burgoyne was in doubt. It may be read three different ways .... In the first reading the Revolutionary cause is condemned, and by the others it is encouraged and lauded. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Written about the year 1835 by Mrs. Hannah Saunders (widow of Arnold Saunders,) who died in 1850. Printed in two columns. Poem in 85 four-line stanzas.