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.
French fold On p. [4]: Broadside no. 1 / poem by Charles Olson ; design by Nicola Cernovich. Black Mountain College Graphics Workshop, Black Mountain, North Carolina 1952 Title from p. [1]; also at head of text. One of 30 copies; cf. Butterick & Glover Printed in brown on various shades of paper; hand-painted silk screen ill. on p. [1] Issued with mailing envelope First printings of Amer. authors, III, p. 262; Butterick & Glover. Olson, A6 Hay Broadsds Harris copy: Printed on orange paper; without the mailing envelope
Printed in one and two columns divided by single lines wwithin double line border with ornamental corner. In lower margin below border: Press of T.R. Marvin & Co., 24 Congress Street.
Printed in purple on glossy white paper. At head of title illustration of two cherubs. Poem in two four-line stanzas. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.
1 broadsheet. Printed on card stock. At head lithograph of man turning away organ grinder with monkey; at bottom price list for wood and coal. On verso: Hunt's melodies [First line: Jack Frost puts his nose in]
Page [4] blank. Text on page [1] within double line border. Cover title. Running head extending over pages [2]-[3]: Be watchful, and strengthen the things that remain. "Printed for Parish Distribution, Portsmouth, January First, Nineteen Hundred Eighteen. Type-signed at end: Lucius H. Thayer.
Broadsheet. On verso poem in six four-line stanzas. On verso within border of type ornaments at top and bottom hand-colored wood-engraving of man carrying basket of buns on his head and boy carrying kite. Text on recto: Reward of merit. This certifies, that [blank] for diligence and attention to studies, and good conduct in school, merits my approbation and esteem. [blank] Instructor. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Within border of type ornament sections. Text of song in five four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: You may call me a quiz, you may call me a pry. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Printed in two columns. Wood-engravings on each side of title. At end of text in second column: N. Coverly, Jr. Printer, Milk-St. Boston. Thomas L. Philbrick in "British authorship of ballads in the Isaiah Thomas Collection" in Studies in bibliography, papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, v. 9, 1957, pp. 255-258, attributes "Thimble's scolding wife" to George Colman, Jr. and "The Boston beau and the cow" to Charles Dibdin. Coverly was listed at above address from 1810 to 1824. Broadside printed not later than 1814.