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 Christian prayer

A Christian prayer

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Within single line border with ornamental corners. Colophon on verso: Willard Tract Repository ..

A child of the King

A child of the King

Brown University

Author of poem unknown. Printed in red typefaces. Printed at end of poem: "The Glorious Gospel" Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

A child of the King

A child of the King

Brown University

Author of poem unknown. Printed in red typefaces. Printed at end of poem: "The Glorious Gospel" Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

A child of the King

A child of the King

Brown University

Author of poem unknown. Printed in red typefaces. Printed at end of poem: "The Glorious Gospel" Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

A celebration

A celebration

Brown University

Printed in red on cream paper. Poem in four ten-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: Christmas, 1956. May Sarton.

A carol for Christmas

A carol for Christmas

Brown University

Printed on heavy dark red paper. Illustrations include scroll of music, male heads and map of part of Canada. Cover title. In English, Wyandot and French; includes French and English translations of Wyandot carol.

A carol for Christmas

A carol for Christmas

Brown University

Printed on heavy dark red paper. Illustrations include scroll of music, male heads and map of part of Canada. Cover title. In English, Wyandot and French; includes French and English translations of Wyandot carol.

A carol for Christmas

A carol for Christmas

Brown University

Printed on heavy dark red paper. Illustrations include scroll of music, male heads and map of part of Canada. Cover title. In English, Wyandot and French; includes French and English translations of Wyandot carol.

A captain bold in Halifax, & The grinders

Printed in two columns divided by line of advertising within rules: Sold, wholesale and retail, by L. Deming, No. 62, Hanover Street, 2d door from Friend St. Boston; type ornaments at each end. (cf. Reilly 512) Deming used this address between 1832 and 1837. The first song, also called "Miss Bailey," is ascribed to Colman by Thomas A. Philbrick in "British authorship of ballads in the Isaiah Thomas collection," Studies in bibliography, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, v. 9, 1957, p. 255-258.

A Canto XXXIX

A Canto XXXIX

Brown University

Printed in red and black on cream paper. Issued with sheet of black paper and black ribbon band. Rubricated initial "A" with "Canto XXXIX" in red superimposed on drawing of two resting panthers at upper left. Sample page issued with prospectus for Shakespear's Pound: illuminated Cantos, 1999, a limited edition of excerpts from Pound's Cantos with alphabet designs for initial capitals, tail pieces and ancillary decorations by Dorothy Shakespear, published by Scolar Press and designed and printed by Charles Jones of LaNana Press.

A campaign song

A campaign song

Brown University

At head of text: The following purporting to be one of the new songs of the Oneida Battery made its appearance during the past week. Text of song in nine four-line stanzas. Mention of McKinley suggests date of one of his presidential elections, in 1896 or 1900.

A campaign song

A campaign song

Brown University

At head of text: The following purporting to be one of the new songs of the Oneida Battery made its appearance during the past week. Text of song in nine four-line stanzas. Mention of McKinley suggests date of one of his presidential elections, in 1896 or 1900.

A busy business man's prayer

Broadsheet printed on heavy cream paper. One poem on recto, another on verso. At end of text on verso: Tract Evangelistic Crusade. John Denmark, Tract Evangelist. P.O. Box 154, Tempe, Arizona 85282. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.

A builder

A builder

Brown University

Contains request for gift to Boston University Building Fund.

A broker there was in Providence town

Song concerning business and drinking mentions Old John Brown, Tommy Davis, Seth, George, Amos and Watson; reference to "mods:state Auditors Punch" may be political. Song concerning business and drinking mentions Old John Brown, Tommy Davis, Seth, George, Amos and Watson; reference to "mods:state Auditors Punch" may be political. Title from first line. To be sung to the tune: The cork leg. Text of song in seven four-line stanzas with two-line nonsense refrain beginning: Ri tu di nu, di nu di nu. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence. Two political poems, Padelford's address to Hon. Thomas Davis (Brown University copy HB9781) and A dialogue between Padelford, Barstow and Davis (Brown University copy HB12564) give clue to some men mentioned; Davis was a Rhode Island Congressman.