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 inside tip

An inside tip

Brown University

Poetry; printed in green and red on green paper below Saturday Review letterhead. Printed on illustrated self mailer patented by The Sawdon Co., Inc. with return address, postage paid, and typed address on verso. At end of text: William Rose Benet.

An inhabited floriated initial

invenit & sculpsit Kitzi Pantzer. Page [2] blank. At head of title illustration of cartoon figure holding large letter "M" between flowers. Poem in four lines, with footnotes. "STC" probably refers to A short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland & Ireland, of the second edition of which Pantzer was an editor.

An ingenious production

An ingenious production

Brown University

Poetry and prose. Within border of type ornaments printed in two columns divided first by curvilinear and then single line. Prose piece is testimonial to William C. Brown's temperance poem "Ode to Rum" and urges temperance editors to publish ode at least once a year. A later ed. (Boston?, 1851?) is recorded as NUC pre-1956 NB 0867658.

An impromptu

An impromptu

Brown University

Poetry. Poem in five four-line stanzas expressing pro-Confederacy and anti-Union sentiments. Ellinger gives author statement removed from Brown's copies: By Dr. Barnstable, B.C.H.G. First line: The South, the South, the glorious South.

An impromptu

An impromptu

Brown University

Poetry. Poem in five four-line stanzas expressing pro-Confederacy and anti-Union sentiments. Ellinger gives author statement removed from Brown's copies: By Dr. Barnstable, B.C.H.G. First line: The South, the South, the glorious South.

An impromptu

An impromptu

Brown University

Poetry. Poem in five four-line stanzas expressing pro-Confederacy and anti-Union sentiments. Ellinger gives author statement removed from Brown's copies: By Dr. Barnstable, B.C.H.G. First line: The South, the South, the glorious South.

An immutable song: (for Julie)

Pages [2] and [4] blank. Printed in dark green on green paper. On cover uncaptioned abstract illustration. Caption title. At end of poem on page [3]: Christmas greetings 1965. In intaglio on page [3]: Percival R. Roberts, III, poet laureate State of Delaware.

An If for women

An If for women

Brown University

Printed in blue on heavy gray paper within border of type ornament sections. Imitation of Kipling'd If in six four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: Mary R. Shepard, R.N. Worcester, 1919.

An idyl

An idyl

Brown University

Silver-wedding anniversary poem for country couple with eight children. Silver-wedding anniversary poem for country couple with eight children. Pages [1] and [4] blank. Printed in brown on cream paper in two columns divided by single lines. Type-signed at end: By Florence V. R. French. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

An hymn

An hymn

Brown University

by S. Davis, A.M. sung at the ordination of John Kirby, in the 3d Parish in Newbury, June 12th, 1816. Line of type ornaments at top and bottom.

An honest man

An honest man

Brown University

Within double line border with corner ornaments. At head of text: These homely rhymes relate to A.O.B., / Faint tribute to his worth, from S.P.T. At end of text: S.P.T.

An honest man

An honest man

Brown University

Within double line border with corner ornaments. At head of text: These homely rhymes relate to A.O.B., / Faint tribute to his worth, from S.P.T. At end of text: S.P.T.

An evening out

An evening out

Brown University

Keith Abbott. Tan paper printed in black; photo.