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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The vision: A poem

The vision: A poem

Brown University

Within ornamental border printed in three columns. Illustration of a flowering vine between title and text. At end of text: Published by the C.B./Ithaca, August 25th, 1842. First line: Kind Reader. I, despite the hardness of the times.

The vision: A poem

The vision: A poem

Brown University

Within ornamental border printed in three columns. Illustration of a flowering vine between title and text. At end of text: Published by the C.B./Ithaca, August 25th, 1842. First line: Kind Reader. I, despite the hardness of the times.

The vision in my dreams: song

by Michael Sweeney. Pages [2] and [4] blank. Page [1] within ornamental border. Text of song in three eight-line stanzas with twelve-line chorus beginning: My soldier lad, my soldier lad.

The vision in my dreams: song

by Michael Sweeney. Pages [2] and [4] blank. Page [1] within ornamental border. Text of song in three eight-line stanzas with twelve-line chorus beginning: My soldier lad, my soldier lad.

The vision

The vision

Brown University

by C.W. Never-est. At end of text "Hamden, Ct., Oct. 22, 1851", followed by humorous advertisements. A parody of The vision of death, by C.W. Everest.

The Virginia mother

The Virginia mother

Brown University

Poem in 11 stanzas printed in two columns. At head of text: A pathetic war poem of the late rebellion. Recited by Comrade Robert Pyne at Installation of Steadman Camp, Sons of Veterans, Jan. '92. Presented with compliments of Nathaniel Lyon Post, G. A. R., Hartford, Conn. At end of text: Edna Dean Proctor. First line: My home is sad and drear tonight.

The violet crown

The violet crown

Brown University

translated by Marion M. Miller. At head of title portrait of an ancient bust supposed to represent the Lesbian poetess with caption: "Muse immortal, Sappho!" At end of text: From "The Songs of Sappho," by Miller and Robinson.

The vine is growing and dying

Printed on heavy white paper with deckled lower edge. Title from first line. Poem in one four-line stanza and one six-line stanza. Type-signed at end of poem: Richard Murian. Colophon at end: Printed by the author, South Hall Press 1971.

The village blacksmith (2)

Longfellow. Postcard printed in brown and red. Text on recto printed below against ground of reproduction of colored photograph of two blacksmiths working. Six-line stanza of poetry. In lower right corner on recto: Bamforth & Co. Printed vertically in left margin on verso: Bamforth & Co., Publishers, Holmfirth (England) and New York. Series No. 4533/2. Printed in England. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The village blacksmith

The village blacksmith

Brown University

Longfellow. Printed in sepia on glossy paper in postcard format. At head of title reproduction of photograph of man standing beside anvil. First six lines of poem. "Bamforth's life model series, (England) N.Y.C."--Verso. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The village blacksmith

The village blacksmith

Brown University

Longfellow. Printed in sepia on glossy paper in postcard format. At head of title reproduction of photograph of man standing beside anvil. First six lines of poem. "Bamforth's life model series, (England) N.Y.C."--Verso. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The village blacksmith

The village blacksmith

Brown University

Printed in color on heavy glossy paper in postcard format. At head of title and at left colored illustrations of blacksmith working in front of smithy, shamrocks, hammer, horseshoes, anvil and tongs. First two stanzas of poem with music. Author's name not on item. "Printed in Germany"--Verso. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The veterans are coming

The veterans are coming

Brown University

by L. Grennan, Co. "D" 20th Ohio Infantry Volunteers. Tune: The Campbells are coming. Within ornamental border printed in two columns divided by double line. At end of text within border: U.S. General Hospital No. 2, Vicksburg, Miss., 1864.

The veterans are coming

The veterans are coming

Brown University

by L. Grennan, Co. "D" 20th Ohio Infantry Volunteers. Tune: The Campbells are coming. Within ornamental border printed in two columns divided by double line. At end of text within border: U.S. General Hospital No. 2, Vicksburg, Miss., 1864.

The veterans are coming

The veterans are coming

Brown University

by L. Grennan, Co. "D" 20th Ohio Infantry Volunteers. Tune: The Campbells are coming. Within ornamental border printed in two columns divided by double line. At end of text within border: U.S. General Hospital No. 2, Vicksburg, Miss., 1864.

The veteran's cry

The veteran's cry

Brown University

At head of title: Lines written by Mrs. Ellen E. Jack, widow of Capt. Charles E. Jack, of the Farragut Fleet, U.S. Navy. Internal evidence suggests date approximation.

The veteran's call!

The veteran's call!

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments. At head of title: Published expressly for the benefit of disabled soldiers and their families.

The veteran

The veteran

Brown University

By Albery A. Whitman. Poems. Author statement enclosed within square brackets. Text within double line border.

The Vaughan House up in Maine

1 broadsheet. Printed on green card stock. On verso photograph of hotel. Advertisement for hotel, New Vaughan House, on verso. Date from internal evidence.

The vase of flowers

The vase of flowers

Brown University

Poetry. Printed in two columns. At head of title cut of flowers in vase, inscribed at lower left "E. Whitefield Del." Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The vampire church

The vampire church

Brown University

Walter J. Coates. Printed in red and black on heavy paper in two columns divided by line of type ornament sections within border of type ornament sections; rubricated initial. Poem in eleven four-line stanzas. Imprint and suggested range of publication dates from dealer.

The vampire church

The vampire church

Brown University

Walter J. Coates. Printed in red and black on heavy paper in two columns divided by line of type ornament sections within border of type ornament sections; rubricated initial. Poem in eleven four-line stanzas. Imprint and suggested range of publication dates from dealer.