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 broken song

A broken song

Brown University

Donald E. Harding. Printed in green and blue on recto and brown on verso on heavy white paper in postcard format. At left of title cut of green laurel wreath. Poem in two four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: Donald E. Harding, Elgin, Ill. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copies.

A bright New Year

A bright New Year

Brown University

Printed in gold and colors on heavy glossy white paper within gilt border on recto, single-line purple border with ornamental corners on verso; text on verso in purple. On recto colored lithograph of flowers with girl's faces captioned: A bright New Year. On verso eight-line poem. At end of poem: Copyright Fannie Rochat. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

A bright & happy Christmas

Printed in colors and gold on heavy paper in postcard format; illuminated and rubricated initials; red horizontal rules between lines of text. At head of title and below text illustrations of holly sprays. Type-signed at end: F.R. Havergal. "No. 307. Printed in Bavaria."--Verso. Suggested publication date from postmark on Brown University copy.

A Bozenkill garland, May, 1934

Gloria Goddard & Clement Wood. Processed copy in two columns. Poem in first column in four numbered sections, ascribed to "our own" E.E. C-mm-ngs, G-rtr-d- St--n, W-lt Wh-tm-n and S-m--l H-ff-nst--n; type-signed: Gloria Goddard & Clement Wood. In second column prose invitation with directions from Albany.

A bouquet of ten roses

A bouquet of ten roses

Brown University

Prose poem. At end of text: Robert Bly. Colophon on verso: ... Printed to coincide with the author's workshop and reading at Seattle, Wash., August 1, 1981 ... Printed by Two Magpie Press, Kendrick, Idaho 83537. Title, initials and illustration in red.

A bouquet of ten roses

A bouquet of ten roses

Brown University

Prose poem. At end of text: Robert Bly. Colophon on verso: ... Printed to coincide with the author's workshop and reading at Seattle, Wash., August 1, 1981 ... Printed by Two Magpie Press, Kendrick, Idaho 83537. Title, initials and illustration in red.

A bouquet of ten roses

A bouquet of ten roses

Brown University

Prose poem. At end of text: Robert Bly. Colophon on verso: ... Printed to coincide with the author's workshop and reading at Seattle, Wash., August 1, 1981 ... Printed by Two Magpie Press, Kendrick, Idaho 83537. Title, initials and illustration in red.

A blessed pilgrimage: lines

written by Mrs. A.M. Offutt on reaching her 87th birthday. Poem in four eight-line stanzas. Place and date of publication suggested because the author's other poem written on her 87th birthday, entitled: The years that have come and gone, was published in Manchester in 1900.

A bit of California's beauty

1 broadsheet. Printed in brown on colored paper. Photograph "Sunlight thro' the Redwoods" by Lindley Eddy tipped in.

A bit of California's beauty

1 broadsheet. Printed in brown on colored paper. Photograph "Sunlight thro' the Redwoods" by Lindley Eddy tipped in.

A birthday offering

A birthday offering

Brown University

Pages [3] and [4] blank. At end of text: M.E.S. Title from first line.

A birthday offering

A birthday offering

Brown University

Pages [3] and [4] blank. At end of text: M.E.S. Title from first line.

A birthday offering

A birthday offering

Brown University

Pages [3] and [4] blank. At end of text: M.E.S. Title from first line.

A birthday greeting to Comrade J.P. Eagal

Broadsheet. On verso at head of title photographs of young man in Civil War uniform and of old man, captioned: 1862 Arthur J. Robinson 1916 Co. E. 33d Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers. On verso Decoration Day, May 30.

A birthday carol

A birthday carol

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Hand-colored humorous illustration on verso.

A bird came down the walk

First line same as title. Colophon on verso: The Unbound Anthology. The Poets' Guild. Christodora House...New York City...From the Complete poems ... by permission of ... Little, Brown and Company.

A big old giant mountain

Title from first line. Poetry; each poem type-signed at end. Mimeographed typescript on white paper. At head of title: Free poems among friends. "Free poems among friends" had its beginnings in San Francisco in the Spring of 1965. By September of that year publication was continued until 1967 by the Detroit Artist's Workshop, later Detroit Artists' Workshop Press (see "Free poems among friends, Vol. 1, p.[3]").