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.
composed by George H. Gregory, Sept. 28, 1918. Printed on heavy paper. First line same as title. Text of song in nine five-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Oh, won't it be wonderful.
William Everson. Woodcut by Kenneth J. Carpenter. Printed on double leaves. This poem is part of an unpublished sequence of the same name written in the fall of 1947. Printed by Kenneth J. Carpenter on the Berkeley Albion, University of California General Library, for the joint meeting of the Zamorano and Roxburghe Clubs, September 1960. Two hundred copies.
Broadsheet printed in colors on white paper; text in red and black. On recto colored illustrations of children surrounding old woman in shoe and of container of Ko-Nut; on verso colored illustration of king and pastry-headed stick figures. Advertising card for Ko-Nut, a "pure cocoanut product for shortening and frying," uses adaptations of nursery rhymes. Publisher from label on illustrated container. Suggested range of publication dates because similar Ko-Nut advertisement (Brown University copy HB35420) is entitled "Twentieth century Mother Goose" and from internal evidence.
Title from first line. At end of text: D.D. Duplicate printing on each side of folded broadside probably intended to be placed on restaurant table. Limerick urges food conservation.
David Starr Jordan. Poem in two stanzas of unequal length. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and because ms. letter on Brown University copy refers to President Wilson as living.
David Starr Jordan. Poem in two stanzas of unequal length. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and because ms. letter on Brown University copy refers to President Wilson as living.
David Starr Jordan. Poem in two stanzas of unequal length. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and because ms. letter on Brown University copy refers to President Wilson as living.
Pages [2] and [4] blank. French fold; printed on double leaves. Printed in black, red, green and brown on tan paper. On page [1] at lower left abstract drawing. Title from first line. Type-signed at end of poem: Walt Whitman.
Printed in colors and gold within gold border on heavy paper in postcard format; illuminated initial; text on verso in gold. At right of text illustration of bunch of flowers on scroll. Title from first lines. Type-signed at end of text: Oliver Wendell Holmes. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Printed in colors and gold within gold border on heavy paper in postcard format; illuminated initial; text on verso in gold. At right of text illustration of bunch of flowers on scroll. Title from first lines. Type-signed at end of text: Oliver Wendell Holmes. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Within ornamental border, printed on yellow paper. At head of text: Copyrighted 1908 ... Norfolk, Va. At end of text below short double line: In memory of ..
Title from first line. Printed on pink satin. Photograph of J.R. Sharpe, Superintendent, 1874. At head of title: Second Presbyterian Church, Sabbath School, Lexington, Ky. Established March 30, 1823.
Henry Van Dyke. Text printed in blue on recto, black on verso on glossy card stock in postcard format. Full-color head-and-shoulder portrait of Van Dyke at left of text and sprays of pansies and other flowers at right and below signed: Cobb Shinn. Title from first line of poem. Untitled four-line poem.
Within border of type ornament sections. At head of title illustration of Confederate flag, the Stars and Bars. Poem in four eight-line stanzas. Author's name not on item.
Caption title. Poetry in seven eight-line stanzas printed in black within double line border. Cut of Maryland flag between title and text. At end of text: Baltimore, March 25, 1862; type-signed "Cola." According to Ellinger, p. 28, Cola is one of the pseudonymns used by N.G. Ridgely.
Poetry; printed in brown on cream-colored paper; photograph of Marshal Joffre in uniform pasted on page [2]; poems on pages [1,3] Title from first line. Colophon on page [4]: Published in aid of the rehabilitation of northern France by some members of The American McAll Association, Auxiliary to the Mission Évangelique Populaire in France. Douglas C. McMurtrie, New York. At end of second poem: April 28, 1917.
Poetry. Printed on cream paper. Abstract wood-engraving in blue and red on page [1] Title from first line on page [2] Typesigned at end of poem: Stephen Vincent 1974. Colophon on page [4]: 100 copies have been printed from Centaur & Arrighi type faces & woodcut on Wockey [i.e. Wookey?] Hole rag paper by Bonnie L. Carpenter at Effie's Press in Berkeley. June 1974.
Civil War era poem satirizing Sterling citizen Luther Kendall Jewett's behavior and machinations regarding enlistment and exemption. Civil War era poem satirizing Sterling citizen Luther Kendall Jewett's behavior and machinations regarding enlistment and exemption. Title from first line. Poetry in nine eight-line stanzas printed on yellow paper. Imprint information derived from internal evidence.
Page [2] blank. Printed in gold and colors on white paper within scalloped gold border on page [1] only; decorated initial. At head of title illustration of haloed child and lamb. Title from first line. Poem type-signed: Edwin Markham. Suggested publication date from donor.
Page [2] blank. Printed in gold and colors on white paper within scalloped gold border on page [1] only; decorated initial. At head of title illustration of haloed child and lamb. Title from first line. Poem type-signed: Edwin Markham. Suggested publication date from donor.
Page [2] blank. Printed in gold and colors on white paper within scalloped gold border on page [1] only; decorated initial. At head of title illustration of haloed child and lamb. Title from first line. Poem type-signed: Edwin Markham. Suggested publication date from donor.