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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All you continentals of Asia, Africa, Europe

Pages [2] and [4] blank. French fold; printed on double leaves. Title from first line. Printed in green and blue with initial on blue paper. Text on cover within decorative border. Decorative bands at head and end of p. [3] Type-signed at end: Walt whitman.

All things work together

One broadsheet Printed on pink paper On verso: same poem repeated Hay Broadsides Harris copy: Mss. notation on verso Dorsie lives with Ruth Hamilton

All things work together

One broadsheet Printed on pink paper On verso: same poem repeated Hay Broadsides Harris copy: Mss. notation on verso Dorsie lives with Ruth Hamilton

All things work together

One broadsheet Printed on pink paper On verso: same poem repeated Hay Broadsides Harris copy: Mss. notation on verso Dorsie lives with Ruth Hamilton

All the week we spend

All the week we spend

Brown University

Printed on yellow paper within chain-link border. First line same as title. Text of children's hymn in three numbered six-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

All the corn in one barn

by Robinson Jeffers. Alberts, S.S. A bibliography of the works of Robinson Jeffers, no. 31.

All the blue bonnets over the border, and Old Grimes

Printed in two columns divided by line of advertising between rules. At head of text wood-engraving of grotesque man between two soldiers. Printed area measures: 22.1 x 14.6 cm. Between columns: Sold by L. Deming, wholesale and retail, No. 62, Hanover Street, 2d door from Friend Street, Boston. Deming used this address from 1832 to 1837.

All spice; or spice for all

Caption title within its own line border within overall border. Poetry in three fifteen-line stanzas printed in black within double line border. Type-signed end of text: Cola. Baltimore, March 7, 1862. According to Ellinger, p. 28, Cola is one of the pseudonymns used by N.G. Ridgely. Apparently first edition of this poem (dated March 7, 1862). Later versions (dated April 1, 1862 and type-signed "Le Diable Baiteux", another of N.G. Ridgely's pseudonyms) expanded the text to one ten-line and six fifteen-line stanzas (cf. Brown University's Hay Broadsides copy 1-SIZE HB 6922 MD and 1-SIZE HB17064 MD) and uses for one of the editions a different title: "Our opinion; a hit a these times."

All sorts of girls

All sorts of girls

Brown University

Broadsheet printed on card stock. On recto poem in seven six-line stanzas; in last stanza girl advises young men to "smoke and chew Mechanics' Delight." On verso within double-line border advertisement beginning: Lorillard's Mechanics' Delight tobacco is the best chew and smoke. Suggested range of dates from internal evidence.

All on account of Eliza

All on account of Eliza

Brown University

Printed on yellow paper. Within border of type ornament sections. At head of text: As sung in the comic opera of "Billee Taylor." Text of song in four eight-line stanzas with three-line chorus beginning: All on account, all on account, all on account of Eliza. Colophon at end below curvilinear line within lower border: H.J. Wehman, Song Publisher, 50 Chatham St., N.Y. By H.P. Stephens but entered under title rather than author. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

All is well

All is well

Brown University

Poetry. Poem in five stanzas with refrain: All is well. All is well. Farewell of dying person confident of salvation. First published in 1844 edition of Sacred harp; has been attributed to J. T. White--George Pullen Jackson, Spiritual folk-songs of early America, New York, 1937, no. 58. Date suggested by appearance of item. First line: What's this that steals, that steals upon my frame.

All het up

All het up

Brown University

At end of text: Mailed to you for twenty-five cents a dozen.

All hail: Dedicated to Ethan Council 37

By Lud. Poetry. Within ornamental border in form of a ribbon with bouquets of flowers at the corners. At head of title: An Ode. Poem in four stanzas. Date suggested by appearance of border and type. First line: All hail to the land of the free and the brave.