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 Republican success in 1871: a congratulatory address, delivered in poetical form to the colored citizens of Worce...

by Prof. G.B. Thomas, the Kentucky poet. Printed area: 24 x 18 cm. Printed in one and two columns divided by single line within double rules; cut of flying eagle holding flag and scroll inscribed: Liberty and union. Poem in 15 stanzas with chorus; prose introduction and conclusion. First line: On the seventh of November in eighteen seventy-one.

The Republican success in 1871: a congratulatory address, delivered in poetical form to the colored citizens of Worce...

by Prof. G.B. Thomas, the Kentucky poet. Printed area: 24 x 18 cm. Printed in one and two columns divided by single line within double rules; cut of flying eagle holding flag and scroll inscribed: Liberty and union. Poem in 15 stanzas with chorus; prose introduction and conclusion. First line: On the seventh of November in eighteen seventy-one.

The republic

The republic

Brown University

Within double line border. At head of text: "The great Republic is no more" London Times. At end of text: Printed by E.O. Jenkins, 20 North William St.

The republic

The republic

Brown University

Poem attacks "the chief magistrate of our land" who from the date must be Franklin D. Roosevelt. Poem attacks "the chief magistrate of our land" who from the date must be Franklin D. Roosevelt. Poem in fourteen lines. Type-signed at end of poem: William Kimberley Palmer. Chicopee, Massachusetts U.S.A. Suggested publication date from author's inscription on Brown University copy.

The refugee's song

The refugee's song

Brown University

Broadsheet. To be sung to the tune: Dearest Mae. Printed in two columns divided by single line within ornamental border. At head of text: Supposed to have been sung by the "slave" of a Christian master in America, who has secured his freedom by fleeing into Canada, aided in his flight by John Brown, the "Hero of Harper's Ferry." Text of song in six numbered four-line stanzas with two-line chorus beginning: They worked me all the day, without a cent of pay. At end of text: Boston, Sept. 1st, 1861. On verso, advertising material headed: Please examine these songs.

The reformer

The reformer

Brown University

Whittier. Broadsheet printed in two columns divided by single line. Numbered in lower margin: 93 on recto, 94 on verso; possibly cut from longer publication. At head of title cut of building; at end of text on verso cut of landscape. Poem in 24 four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The refiner's fire

The refiner's fire

Brown University

Arthur F. Ingler. On p. [2]: Anonymous poem: "Disappointment." Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The redwoods in Capitol Park

Broadsheet printed on textured card stock; poem on recto, green reproduction of photograph of trees on verso. First line same as title. Type-signed at end: Curtis Eugene Gillis. Date and place of publication from ms. notation on Brown University second copy.

The redwoods in Capitol Park

Broadsheet printed on textured card stock; poem on recto, green reproduction of photograph of trees on verso. First line same as title. Type-signed at end: Curtis Eugene Gillis. Date and place of publication from ms. notation on Brown University second copy.

The red flag

The red flag

Brown University

At head of text: From Current Literature, 1909 (September Number) .. At end of text: (Is this so-called "Democrat" a fit man to be governor of California? Does not E.P.I.C. really stand for ...). Save California! ..

The Red Cross nurse

The Red Cross nurse

Brown University

Printed on heavy paper. At head of title a cross in red. Type-signed at end: H.A.M. Poem in five stanzas.

The rebel's retort

The rebel's retort

Brown University

Parody of Longfellow's Psalm of life ridicules "nigger-worshipers" and Union generals McClellan, "Old Fuss and Feathers" Scott and "Bombastes F. Butler." Parody of Longfellow's Psalm of life ridicules "nigger-worshipers" and Union generals McClellan, "Old Fuss and Feathers" Scott and "Bombastes F. Butler." At head of title wood-engraving of house and mill. Within border of type ornament sections. To be sung to the tune: Cocachelunk. Text of song in seven four-line stanzas.