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 president of the U.S.A

Poetry. Printed on heavy paper within embossed margins. At end of text: By Billy Moffett. Place and date of publication from ms. notation on Brown University copy.

The president of the U.S.A

Poetry. Printed on heavy paper within embossed margins. At end of text: By Billy Moffett. Place and date of publication from ms. notation on Brown University copy.

The President is dead

The President is dead

Brown University

By George Russell Jackson. Printed on laid, watermarked paper within mourning border. To be sung to the tune: The morning light is breaking. Text of song in three numbered eight-line stanzas. At end of text: This hymn will be set to music by White, Smith & Co., Boston.

The preacher and the bear

words and music by Joe Arzonia. Pamphlet to accompany phonograph record of comic song sung by Arthur Collins. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The preacher and the bear

words and music by Joe Arzonia. Pamphlet to accompany phonograph record of comic song sung by Arthur Collins. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The preacher and the bear

words and music by Joe Arzonia. Pamphlet to accompany phonograph record of comic song sung by Arthur Collins. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The prayer perfect

The prayer perfect

Brown University

Printed in brown on tan paper in postcard format. Initial block signed: K.P.B. Poem in two eight-line stanzas. At end of text facsimile signature: James Whitcomb Riley. Suggested publication date from postmark on Brown University copy.

The prayer of faith

The prayer of faith

Brown University

Printed in blue on heavy paper. Poem in three four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The prayer of a candle

The prayer of a candle

Brown University

Pages [2,3] blank. At head of text: By a goodwill. Page [4]: From the hand press of Douglass Howell on Howell handmade paper.

The potato rot ; or, A curse on distilling potatoes, rye, and other eatables

By Withington. Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line. At head of title wood-engraving of armed man and flying woman with American eagle, British lion and French cock. To be sung to the tune: Yankee Doodle. Suggested place of publication from Withington's home; suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The Porter Convolute Ash-Sifter

Prose and poetry. Printed in red and black within single-line border on all pages; border on page [1] has ornamental corners. Cover title. Below title on page [1] illustration in red of machine with hopper at top and crank at side, inscribed The Porter Convolute Ash-Sifter Pat. Oct. 9, 1883. Suggested publication date from date of patent. Includes advertising material for machine manufactured by James H. Porter in Boston.

The portent

The portent

Brown University

Herman Melville. Poetry. Framed by hand-drawn horizontal and vertical rules in red. "Printed on the Albion Hand Press at The Gehenna Press, June 1962"--Colophon.

The popular lolly pop song

Tune: Yankee Doodle. Within border of type ornaments. At head of title: Composed by Fred W. Wheeler, Providence, R.I. At end of text: Price 5 cents. Copyrighted 1905 by ... Agents wanted.

The poor sailor boy: and, The mermaid

Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments; within triple line border of type ornaments. Cut of the American eagle with caption "E pluribus unum" at head of title.

The poor armourer boy: a song

Tune: "The Poor Cabin Boy." Within border of hand colored type ornaments. Hand colored steel engraving The Ship Boston taken by the savages at Nootka Sound March 22d 1903. J.T. Porter, sculp. Middletown, Conn. At head of text: Imitated from the "Poor Cabin Boy," of Dibdin, and adapted to the case of John R. Jewitt ..

The poor

The poor

Brown University

At head of text: Written for the Republican.

The polyp and the potter

Pages [2] and [4] blank. Held in lettered wrapper by pink tasseled cord; wrapper lettered in red "Christmas 1920." At head and foot of pages [1] and [3] drawings of sea anemones, trilobites, crinoids and vases. Poem in four numbered sections type-signed: R.W.P.