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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A New song

Brown University

Poetry. Printed in two columns, one poem to each. At head of second column wood-engraving of three pigeons. Printed area: 19.2 x 14 cm. Not in Shaw & Shoemaker, Shipton & Mooney, or Ford, W. C. Broadsides. First line: I am a young squire. First line of second poem: A bachelor leads an easy life.

A new poem from Robert Burns

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Printed on mauve laid watermarked paper within single-line border with corner ornaments. Poem in four eight-line stanzas imitating Burns' A man's a man for a' that. Type-signed at end of poem: T. L. Harris. At end of text below lower border: John Thomson, 39 John Street, Glasgow. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

A new little girl in heaven

Brown University

Poetry in five eight-line stanzas.

A new darky ditty in Louisiana: from a Sunday paper

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Broadsheet. At head of title on recto wood-engraving of man (identified in poem as "Bob Ing'soll") dancing on hot griddle in presence of devil. Twelve-line poem. Advertisement for J.F. McKenney, sewing machine seller in Baltimore and Washington on verso, entitled: The difference and beginning: There may be a difference about "Bob" Ingersoll's religion. Publication date from notation on Brown University copy.

A national medley: arranged by James Wheeler for his juvenile classes at Swampscott

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Within border of type ornaments.

A national hymn: Composed to be sung on the 14th of May 1841; the day recommended by the President, to be set apart as a day of fasting and prayer, by the people of the United States, on account of the death of Gen. Wm. H. Harrison

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By L. Griffing. Printed in two columns divided by double line within border of type ornament sections. At head of title wood-engraving of dying man and three male and four female attendants captioned: Death-bed scene of Gen. Wm. H. Harrison. To be sung to the tune: China. Text of hymn in six numbered four-line stanzas.

A national hymn

Brown University

Tune: America.

A nation's tribute

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R. Deats, illustrator.

A mournful tragedy: giving an account of the shockin[g] and unprecedented catastrophe, which happened at Dedham, th[e] 18th day of May, 1808, between Mr. Jason Fairbanks, ag[ed] 21. and Miss Eliza Fales, of 19. Both of respectable famil[ie]s

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Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by heavy black line within mourning border with coffin at each side of title. First line: Good people all pray lend an ear.

A mournful song, upon the tragic death of Charles Noyes and Ephraim Crouch, who were both drowned together in the White Water, near Harrison, Dearborn Co., Ind'a. May 20th, 1845

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Within mourning border with coffins at head. First line: Ho! all ye dying sons of men.

A mournful song, on the death of the wife and child of Mr. Nathaniel Knights, of Windham: who fell off the bridge, at the falls above Horse-Beef Mills, on Presumpscutt River

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Poetry. Printed area measures: 40.8 x 51.3 cm. Sheet contains three poems, each within mourning border and printed in two columns divided by heavy rules, with coffins at head. Printed area of first poem measures: 39.5 x 14.6 cm. First poem is in 40 stanzas. Author's name not on item but printed on separate broadside editions of first poem and of last poem. Not in Shaw & Shoemaker. With: Shaw, Thomas. A mournful song. Part II -- Shaw, Thomas. Melancholy shipwreck. Intended to be separated. First line: All ye kind husbands, pray draw near.