An old historic landmark
Brown University
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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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An old historic landmark
Brown University
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An old historic landmark
Brown University
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An old fogy's lament
Brown University
French fold; printed on double page. Printed in red, blue and black on watermarked gray laid paper. Wood-engravings by John DePol include landscape in black, pennant inscribed "W" in red, and chair, tureen, hat and coffee grinder in blue. Cover title. Poem in four eight-line stanzas preceded by four-line stanza. Written and printed by Steve Watts. Cf. Typophile chap book commentary 28, p. 8. Reprinted from The pastime printer.
An offering for the Greenwich people: Published by request
Brown University
Printed in two columns divided by double line. Poem in 30 four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
An offering for the Greenwich people: Published by request
Brown University
Printed in two columns divided by double line. Poem in 30 four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
An offering for the Greenwich people: Published by request
Brown University
Printed in two columns divided by double line. Poem in 30 four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
To be sung to the tune: Adams and Liberty. Printed area measures: 21.0 x 7.9 cm. Poem in two eight-line and four nine-line stanzas. Another poem exists with same title but different words and different type face (cf. Brown Univ. copy HB13884/MA) Not in Shaw & Shoemaker.
Printed area measures: 17.3 x 7.9 cm. Poem in six four-line stanzas with two-line chorus. Another poem exists with same title but different words and different type face (cf. Brown Univ. copy HB13883/MA) Not in Shaw & Shoemaker.
Within ornamental border. At head of text: The matrons, after holding some meetings to deliberate on the subject... At end of text: Cambridge, Sept. 10, 1840.
An ode to ripe days. 1849-1899: On the gift of an orange-shrub
Brown University
Poem in introductory stanzas and five numbered stanzas. At end of text, in brackets: April the seventh. Henry Goddard Leach.
An ode to ripe days. 1849-1899: On the gift of an orange-shrub
Brown University
Poem in introductory stanzas and five numbered stanzas. At end of text, in brackets: April the seventh. Henry Goddard Leach.
An ode to ripe days. 1849-1899: On the gift of an orange-shrub
Brown University
Poem in introductory stanzas and five numbered stanzas. At end of text, in brackets: April the seventh. Henry Goddard Leach.
An ode to my album
Brown University
Poetry. Printed in red and black. Text surrounded by captioned engravings of scenes of a man's life, signed: Lee Engraving Co., Kansas City, M[o] At end of text: Prof. Wm. C. Wilson. Copyrighted 1891. In lower margin: For sale by J.E. Jackson, Dealer in Scarce Books, Engravings and Literary Curios, 246 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y.
An ode of welcome
Brown University
At head of text: The following lines were composed in honor of the completion of the South Pacific Coast Railroad to Santa Cruz, May 8, 1880.
An ode from the Century poet
Brown University
Advertising card printed in sepia on heavy peach paper within double ornamental border; round hole for hanging in center of upper border. At head of title cuts of wall-mounted and standing telephones; at end of text cut of factory buildings captioned: The home of Century apparatus. Poem in five numbered four-line stanzas advertising Century telephones. Suggested date from pencil notation on Brown University copy and from internal evidence, including illustrations.
An ode for the Psi Upsilon Convention supper, July 22, 1853
Brown University
Air: Sparkling and bright.
An ode for the Psi Upsilon Convention supper, July 22, 1853
Brown University
Air: Sparkling and bright.
An ode for the Fourth of March, 1857
Brown University
Celebrates the inauguration of Buchanan and Breckinridge, and the glory of Andrew Jackson. Celebrates the inauguration of Buchanan and Breckinridge, and the glory of Andrew Jackson. Within border of type ornament sections. Text of song in five nine-line stanzas.
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An od[e], on the sudden death of Mr. Daniel Holt: late of Townsend, who was instantly killed by the unexpected fall of a tree, August 31st. 1798
Brown University
Printed in two columns, divided by double line. Headband of type ornaments (leafy scroll) dividing title and text. At head of text: Addressed to the public in general and his friends in particular.
An Irishman's prayer on a sinking ship
Brown University
Within border of type ornaments.
An invocation
Brown University
by Ambrose Bierce. French fold; printed on double page. On page [4]: Ambrose Bierce was born in Ohio in 1842 .. At head of text: Read at the celebration of Independence Day, San Francisco, 1888. Date from internal evidence; must be between date of Bierce's death mentioned on page [4] and date noted in ms. on item.
Advertisement for retail store. At end of text: R. Smithies, Ag't. Fall River, October, 1858.
An invitation
Brown University
At head of title: (From "Sonnets to Gabriel")
An international hymn
Brown University
Text of song in four seven-line stanzas. Parody of S.F. Smith's America attacking Grover Cleveland. Publication date probably during one of Cleveland's terms as president; mention of "three years longer" points to first year of a term.
An international hymn
Brown University
Text of song in four seven-line stanzas. Parody of S.F. Smith's America attacking Grover Cleveland. Publication date probably during one of Cleveland's terms as president; mention of "three years longer" points to first year of a term.
An international hymn
Brown University
Text of song in four seven-line stanzas. Parody of S.F. Smith's America attacking Grover Cleveland. Publication date probably during one of Cleveland's terms as president; mention of "three years longer" points to first year of a term.
An interlude
Brown University
Printed on white silk. Poem in four eight-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: Lilian Whiting. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
An interlude
Brown University
Printed on white silk. Poem in four eight-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: Lilian Whiting. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
An interlude
Brown University
Printed on white silk. Poem in four eight-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: Lilian Whiting. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.