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.
Printed on wheat-colored paper in two columns. At left of title, vignette of burning lamp on stand; at end of text below signature vignette of bird and leaf spray. At head of text: "Behold, this dreamer!"--Bible. Poem in six six-line stanzas. At end of text: Walter J. Coates Feb. 6, 1919.
Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments (Reilly 503) Printed area measures: 24.8 x 17.9 cm. Date suggested by appearance of item and type face; Reilly notes use of rosette type ornaments in Boston and other cities beginning in 1722.
Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments (Reilly 503) Printed area measures: 24.8 x 17.9 cm. Date suggested by appearance of item and type face; Reilly notes use of rosette type ornaments in Boston and other cities beginning in 1722.
Poetry. Printed on card stock. At left of poem rectangular illustration of brick wall. Type-signed at end of poem: Jerry Ratch, printed by Julia Watson. Colophon below illustration: Free 9/70 Posse Press 1.
Allan Block. Printed on heavy olive green paper. Poem in 12 lines. "Printed by Stuart McCarty II at the Geryon Press for the Bellevue Press in a signed edition of 65 copies of which 15 are reserved for the author."
by Mr. Mors, (deceased) Within coffin-shaped black border, with cut of single coffin above border. Beneath bottom border, cut of boy in graveyard. Quotations from Hoyle and Shakespeare at head of text.
Poetry and prose. Printed in blue on cream-colored paper; type ornaments on page [1] Poem in 23 four-line stanzas on pages [2-4] At head of title on page [1]: The following poem is supposed to have been written by John Mascarene, a Spanish student, living in the family of Dr. Henry Ware, at Cambridge, and presented to his daughter, Lucy Clarke Ware. It was probably written sometime between 1800 and 1805, the date of Mr. Clarke's death. Date from acquisition date by previous owner. First line of poem: At it's [sic] approach you view an elm.
Poetry and prose. At head of title on page [1]: The enclosed poem is supposed to have been written by John Mascarene, a Spanish student, living in the family of Dr. Henry Ware, at Cambridge, and presented to his daughter, Lucy Clarke Ware, whose daughter presented it to Lexington Historical Society, 1898. The poem was probably written sometime between 1800 and 1805, the date of Mr. Clarke's death. Reproduction of photograph of the house on page [1] Poem in 23 four-line stanzas on pages [2-4] First line of poem: At it's [sic] approach you view an elm.
Poem in eight four-line stanzas, ending with a four-line Epitaph on a man dead to all moral honesty. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Margaret Dole McCall. Printed on heavy white paper in postcard format. Two poems. At end of text: Please tune in on each Christmas ray & Happy New Year from Margaret Dole McCall.