Resources
Other Internet Resources:
- America Singing: Nineteenth Century Song Sheets (Library of Congress American Memory)
- An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera
(Library of Congress American Memory) - Arion Press
- Arts of the Book Collection (Yale University)
- Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads (University of Oxford)
- The Center for Book Arts
- Electronic Poetry Center (State University of New York, Buffalo)
- Magic Lantern Broadsides: A Centennial Salute to Cinema (Smithsonian Institution)
- Song Sheets in Special Collections (Rutgers University Library)
- University of Iowa Center for the Book
Essential References:
Blanck, Jacob, Bibliography of American Literature / compiled by Jacob Blanck for the Bibliographical Society of America. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1955-1991.
» See also the Online Edition.
Brown University Library. Catalog of broadsides of American verse in the Harris Collection of American poetry. Providence, R. I. and Boston, Mass. : G. K. Hall, 1986.
Bumgardner, Georgia B. American broadsides; sixty facsimilies dated 1680-1800, reproduced from originals in the American Antiquarian Society. Selected & introduced by Georgia B. Bumgardner. Barre, Mass., Imprint Society, 1971.
DeSimone, Russell J. Broadsides of the Dorr Rebellion : a bibliographical checklist compiled by Russell J. DeSimone and Daniel C. Schofield ; with an introduction by Patrick T. Conley. Providence, R.I. : Rhode Island Supreme Court Historical Society, 1992.
Early Vermont broadsides / John Duffy, editor ; introd. by Mason I. Lowance, Jr. Hanover, N.H. : Published for the University of Vermont by the University Press of New England, 1975.
Felcone, Joseph J. New Jersey broadsides before 1900 : a checklist of the Joseph J. Felcone collection. Princeton, N.J. : J.J. Felcone, 1991.
Ford, Worthington Chauncey. Broadsides, ballads, &c. printed in Massachusetts 1639-1800. [Boston] The Massachusetts Historical Society, 1922. Ford, Worthington Chauncey, 1858-1941,
Harvard University. Library. Catalogue of English and American chapbooks and broadside ballads in Harvard College Library. Compiled by Charles Welsh and William H. Tillinghast. Detroit, Singing Tree Press, 1968.
Hummel, Ray Orvin, ed. Southeastern broadsides before 1877; a bibliography. Richmond, Virginia State Library, 1971.
Jantz, Harold Stein. Unrecorded verse broadsides of seventeenth-century New England. [New York] The Bibliographical Society of America, c1945.
The Judgment of experts : essays and documents about the forgery of the Oath of a freeman / edited by James Gilreath. Worcester : American Antiquarian Society, 1991.
Laws, George Malcolm. American balladry from British broadsides; a guide for students and collectors of traditional song. Philadelphia, American Folklore Society, 1957.
Library Company of Philadelphia. American song sheets, slip ballads, and poetical broadsides, 1850-1870; a catalogue of the collection of the Library Company of Philadelphia by Edwin Wolf 2nd. Philadelphia, 1963. New York, Kraus Reprint Corp., 1963.
Library of Congress. Rare Book Division. Catalog of broadsides in the Rare Book Division. Boston, G. K. Hall 1972.
McCorison, Marcus A. Vermont imprints, 1778-1820; a check list of books, pamphlets, and broadsides. Worcester [Mass.] American Antiquarian Society, 1963.
McDonald, Gerald D. (Gerald Doan). A checklist of American newspaper carrier's addresses, 1720-1820 / by Gerald D. McDonald, Stuart C. Sherman, and Mary T. Russo. Worcester, MA : American Antiquarian Society, 2000
Moebs, Thomas Truxtun. U.S. reference-iana, 1481-1899 : a concise guide to over 4000 books and articles for researching art, books, broadsides, ephemera, manuscripts, newspapers, maps, pamphlets, photographs, and prints relating to that area within the present limits of the Uni ted States, 1481-1899. Specifically compiled for Americana collectors, booksellers and librarians. Williamsburg, Va : Moebs Pub. Co., 1989.
Morris, Henry. Broadside vignettes : the poster/broadside format joined with the book. Newtown, Pa. : Bird & Bull Press, 1997.
Moss, William. Confederate broadside poems : an annotated descriptive bibliography based on the collection of the Z. Smith Reynolds Library of Wake Forest University. Westport, CT : Meckler, c1988.
Rhode Island imprints : a list of books, pamphlets, newspapers and broadsides printed at Newport, Providence, Warren, Rhode Island between 1727 and 1800. Providence : Printed for the Society [Rhode Island Historical Society], 1915.
Rudolph, Earle Leighton. Confederate broadside verse; a bibliography and finding list of Confederate broadside ballads and songs. New Braunfels, Texas, Book Farm, 1950.
Stoddard, Roger E. American bibliographical notes : fifth addenda to Wegelin's Early American poetry. Worcester [Mass.] : American Antiquarian Society, c1990.
Stoddard, Roger E. A catalogue of books and pamphlets unrecorded in Oscar Wegelin's Early American poetry, 1650-1820. Providence, R.I., Friends of the Library of Brown University, 1969.
Stoddard, Roger E. Further addenda to Wegelin's Early American poetry. [New York? 1971?]
Stoddard, Roger E. Further corrigenda and addenda to Hill's American plays printed 1714-1830. [New York : Bibliographical Society of America, 1983]
Stoddard, Roger E. Progress note on a bibliography of American poetry printed 1610-1820 and some corrigenda to Wegelin's Early American poetry. [Amherst, Mass. : Early American Literature, 1979?]
Sullivan, James D. On the walls and in the streets : American poetry broadsides from the 1960s. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1997.
Taylor, W. Thomas. Texfake : an account of the theft and forgery of early Texas printed documents / by W. Thomas Taylor ; with an introduction by Larry McMurtry. Austin : W.T. Taylor, 1991.
Wegelin, Oscar. Early American poetry : a compilation of the titles of volumes of verse and broadsides by writers born or residing in North America north of the Mexican border. 2nd ed., rev. and enl. Gloucester, Mass. : P. Smith, 1965, c1930.
Winship, George Parker. Brown university broadsides. Providence, 1913.
Winslow, Ola Elizabeth. comp. American broadside verse from imprints of the 17th and 18th centuries, selected and edited, with an introductory note, by Ola Elizabeth Winslow. New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press; London, H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1930.