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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"May bell"

"May bell"

Brown University

words and music by F. Prescott Boorum. At head of text: "The Quaker Oats", "Souvenir Song"

"Jehovah Tsidkenu": "The Lord our righteousness"

Printed in what appears to be the Society's "new" type (after 1848) Poetry in 7 four-line stanzas. Within border of type ornaments. At end of poem Jer. 23:6, margin No. 97 American Tract Society.

"Jehovah Tsidkenu": "The Lord our righteousness"

Printed in what appears to be the Society's "new" type (after 1848) Poetry in 7 four-line stanzas. Within border of type ornaments. At end of poem Jer. 23:6, margin No. 97 American Tract Society.

"Jehovah Tsidkenu": "The Lord our righteousness"

Printed in what appears to be the Society's "new" type (after 1848) Poetry in 7 four-line stanzas. Within border of type ornaments. At end of poem Jer. 23:6, margin No. 97 American Tract Society.

"Indulge the genial hour!": Dedicated to our past presidents

Pages [2, 4] blank. Caption title. Poetry in 4 four-line stanzas between brown ruled bars on page [3]. Printed on beige paper; outer edge on page [1] and [2] deckled. On page [1] gilded seal of club with head of Athena, bearing legend: "Indulge the genial hour" Imprint date supplied by Blanck.

"In school days."

"In school days."

Brown University

Broadsheet printed on glossy card stock. On one side Whittier's poem in eleven four-line stanzas; on other side reproduction of two photographs of dask captioned: The desk that bears the "Jackknife's carved initial" referred to by Whittier in his popular poem "In school days." Publisher offers copies of photographs.

"In my Father's house are many mansions."

Broadsheet. At head of title, wreathed in grape-vine: Sacred Gems for letter. No. 4. Poem in six four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of poem: Carey. At end of text below rule: Published by E.P. Dutton & Co., Boston. 2 pages 1 cent. Packets of 64 pages, 25 cents. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

"In Flanders fields"

"In Flanders fields"

Brown University

by Lieutenant Colonel Dr. John D. McCrae, of Montreal, Canada. At head of text: Revised and set to music by Herbert Miles and Marjorie Trotter, of Portlan4 [i.e. Portland], Oregon, U.S.A. Text of song in three numbered six-line stanzas beginning: In Flanders fields the poppies blow, with a rhymed six-line introduction and four-line chorus added by Miles and Trotter.

"If you will only have patience."

Title from first line. Printed in red and black in two columns divided by single line. At head of title: Poetry by Benj. C. Mercury. Ditto B.C. Mercury who is Cesheeding. Author, composer and publisher of music ..

"Home, sweet home."

"Home, sweet home."

Brown University

Within ornamental border. At head of text woodcut of landscape with caption: "Mid pleasures and palaces." At end of text: I.H. Welton, publisher, No. 4 Walnut Street, Lowell, Mass.

"Have ye forgotten?"

"Have ye forgotten?"

Brown University

1 broadsheet. At end of text: Reprinted from the Washington Post, March 26, 1939. On verso calendar bearing legend at head: The rest of 1939 ..