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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Address to her Maryland lover

by a Virginia girl, and his reply. At head of title: Privately printed. Page [4] blank. Printed in red; with red edged borders. At head of title on page [1]: Cut of the Confederate flag. At head of pages [2,3]: One cut each of the seal of Virginia and Maryland. Cola is a pseudonym for N.G. Ridgely.

Address to her Maryland lover

by a Virginia girl, and his reply. At head of title: Privately printed. Page [4] blank. Printed in red; with red edged borders. At head of title on page [1]: Cut of the Confederate flag. At head of pages [2,3]: One cut each of the seal of Virginia and Maryland. Cola is a pseudonym for N.G. Ridgely.

Address to her Maryland lover

by a Virginia girl, and his reply. At head of title: Privately printed. Page [4] blank. Printed in red; with red edged borders. At head of title on page [1]: Cut of the Confederate flag. At head of pages [2,3]: One cut each of the seal of Virginia and Maryland. Cola is a pseudonym for N.G. Ridgely.

Address to Archeus

Address to Archeus

Brown University

Page [4] blank. At end of text: Facsimile signature of author. At end of text: Marjorie Flack and William Rose Benét. Christmas 1949.

Adams and liberty: Together with Hail Columbia, and the American sailor

Two songs and a poem. Adams and liberty was written by Thomas [i.e. Robert Treat] Paine in 1798; for other editions cf. Evans 34293-34299 and Bristol B10451-B10454A. Hail Columbia, by Joseph Hopkinson, was also written in 1798. Place of publication suggested by Evans. Text in two columns; printed area measures 32.5 x 18.6 cm. Evidently printed from a larger type setting than the American Antiquarian Society copy (BR 1798) Printed in two columns divided by a single line; row of curved line ornaments between Hail Columbia and The American sailor.

Adams and liberty: The Boston patriotic song. Together with Hail Columbia!

Two songs. Adams and liberty was written by Robert Treat Paine in 1798; Hail Columbia, by Joseph Hopkinson, was also written in 1798. Woodcut of military scene at head of text (soldiers standing in front of tents) Printed in two columns, divided by line of type ornaments, within single line border; printed area: ca. 32.7 x 15.5 cm. Not recorded in Shipton & Mooney or Ford, W.C. Broadsides.

Adam and Eve

Adam and Eve

Brown University

Printed in two columns. Two woodcuts-couple; farmer feeding chickens flank title.

Ad amphoram

Ad amphoram

Brown University

Pages [1] and [4] blank. At head of text: O nata mecum consule Manlio. Read inside and outside the lines. Hor. Car. III. 21. At end of text: John O. Sargent, Class of 1830. Harvard Club Dinner, New York, Feb. 21, 1884.

Acworth Centennial: September 16, 1868

A hundred years ago [First line: Again with heartfelt joy we greet].--Our Acworth home [First line: Amid New Hampshire's thousand hills].--Ode [First line: Our father's God! We raise].--Parting invocation [First line: Lead us O Lord; thou art Divine]

Acrostick

Acrostick

Brown University

Poetry Printed on white silk within curvilinear border with ornamental corners Acrostic poem in two six-line stanzas; initial letters form the name "Hannah Cordis."

Acrostic: Mary Porter Chase

Poem in three stanzas, with initials spelling out: Mary Porter Chase. Author's name and date from ms. notation on Brown University copy.

Acrostic: Mary Porter Chase

Poem in three stanzas, with initials spelling out: Mary Porter Chase. Author's name and date from ms. notation on Brown University copy.

Acrostic on Henry B. Bascom, D.D

by Roswell Rice. Poem in 11 four-line stanzas, with first letters of first three stanzas spelling Henry B.Bascom. Suggested publication date from date of Bascom's death.

Acrostic dedicated to Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Broadsheet. To be sung to the tune: Fair Harvard. Poem in three stanzas, with initial letters of all but last three lines spelling Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Type-signed at end: James L. Smiley, Annapolis, Md. On verso advertising matter for books by Smiley, beginning: By the same author.

Acrostic

Acrostic

Brown University

Acrostic on Linwood Cemetery, Haverhill, Mass.

Acrostic

Acrostic

Brown University

Printed on green paper. Acrostic reads: B.F. Butler. At end of text: Baltimore, March 16, 1863.

Acrostic

Acrostic

Brown University

Acrostic for Gilbert Avery Tracy.