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 grammar of war

A grammar of war

Brown University

Poetry. Printed in red and black. At end of text: Sister Mary Norbert Korte, O.P. A Cranium free poem. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.

A good friend of mine

A good friend of mine

Brown University

Poetry and prose. Photograph of man's friend captioned: Roy K. Moulton at upper left.

A good [wife]: and, Star spangled [banner]

Original width not known. Printed in two columns divided by vertically printed line of advertising between type ornaments: Sold wholesale & retail corner of Merchant's Row, & Market Square (upstairs)--Boston. Leonard Deming was at this address from 1829 to 1831. Variant of Ford 3136.

A golden wedding song

A golden wedding song

Brown University

By Rev. Joseph H. Hilts. At end of text: Dundas, Aug. 21st, 1892. Printed area: 16.7 x 11.6 cm. Text printed in two columns, separated by a triple rule (lines varying in length), all within border of type ornaments. First line: We first met in a meeting.

A glad New Year where sunny days are told.

Broadsheet printed in calligraphy on heavy paper On recto colored waist-length portrait of little boy against gold ground, captioned: Best New Year wishes; on verso poem in calligraphy with drawings of flowers in margins. Title from first line of poem on verso. At end of poem: Copyright Samuel K. Cowan, M.A. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

A garland of snow for Christmas

Poetry. Cover title. Cut of snowflake below title. At end of poem: Samuel French Morse. Colophon on page [4]: Printed at the Cummington Press for Christmas 1944. The snowflake was drawn by Wightman Williams. First line: The constellations turn; we heed them, so.

A garland of snow for Christmas

Poetry. Cover title. Cut of snowflake below title. At end of poem: Samuel French Morse. Colophon on page [4]: Printed at the Cummington Press for Christmas 1944. The snowflake was drawn by Wightman Williams. First line: The constellations turn; we heed them, so.

A funeral elegy, on the Revd. and renowned George Whitefield, Chaplain to the Right Honorable the Countess of Hunting...

Printed in two columns divided by thick black line; within mourning border with memento mori (Reilly 31) centered on top; title and colophon boxed. Two angel type-ornaments (Reilly 726) at end of text in second column. At bottom, within two thick lines: Boston: Printed and sold at the Printing-Office in Milk-Street. MDCCLXX. Internal evidence of woodcuts and address may indicate the firm of John Kneeland and Seth Adams as printers.

A free use of Babbitt's soap will carry the state every time

Broadsheet printed in colors on heavy white paper; text on verso in black. On recto colored illustration of politician resembling Grover Cleveland on platform with African-American servant, handing out soap packages to crowd from box labeled: B.T. Babbitt's Best Soap. On verso poem entitled: Babbitt's Best Soap, type-signed: Address, B.T. Babbitt, New York City. Caption title. Advertising card for soap. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

A fragment for the birth of God

Brother Antoninus [i.e. W. Everson] Pages [2-4] blank. Text printed in terra-cotta. Blue woodblock printed by Everson of madonna and child on cover. Issued as St. Albert's College Christmas card. D. Kherdian, Six poets of the San Francisco renaissance, 1967, no. 30 (p. 158)

A fragment for the birth of God

Brother Antoninus [i.e. W. Everson] Pages [2-4] blank. Text printed in terra-cotta. Blue woodblock printed by Everson of madonna and child on cover. Issued as St. Albert's College Christmas card. D. Kherdian, Six poets of the San Francisco renaissance, 1967, no. 30 (p. 158)

A fortiori

A fortiori

Brown University

Printed in two columns. At end of text: Copyright U.K. and U.S.A. 1911- International and Overseas Magazine Ref. 4511 ..

A foreword

A foreword

Brown University

At end of text: Chicago First edition. Written Oct. 16, 1918.

A font of type

A font of type

Brown University

Within ornamental border of type specimens delineated by double line borders.

A font of type

A font of type

Brown University

Within ornamental border of type specimens delineated by double line borders.

A font of type

A font of type

Brown University

Page [2] blank. At end of text: So rarely quoted is this gem by Walt Whitman and graciously brought to my attention by Jesse Merritt, Esq. ... Cover title.