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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Temperance song

Temperance song

Brown University

In seven stanzas. At end of text: Timothy Coughlin, East Cambridge. Tune: Air, Father Tom O'Neil. Printed area: 20 x 5 cm. First line: The Father Mathew Temperance Men.

Temperance ode

Temperance ode

Brown University

Poem in four numbered seven-line stanzas with varied two-line chorus usually beginning: O, ne'er may the sons of Columbia deplore. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Temperance hymns: Bring this sheet of hymns to all temperance meetings

Broadsheet. Poetry. Printed in three columns. Place from description of first song; date from appearance of item and because Washingtonian Temperance Society mentioned was founded in 1840. Cold water melodies compiled by J. Pierpont, 1842 ascribes Shall e'er, cold water be forgot to Pierpont and The drink that's in the drunkard's bowl to H. Reed. First line of first hymn: Friends of Temperance, one and all.

Temperance hymns

Temperance hymns

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Printed in four columns. At head of text: [Be particular to bring this sheet of hymns to all temperance meetings you attend.] Contains 12 songs. First song: The Temperance Reform, as sung by the Washington Total Abstinence Society at Temperance Hall in Concord, N.H. First line: What means all this great commotion, motion, motion.

Temperance hymns

Temperance hymns

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Printed in four columns. At head of text: [Be particular to bring this sheet of hymns to all temperance meetings you attend.] Contains 12 songs. First song: The Temperance Reform, as sung by the Washington Total Abstinence Society at Temperance Hall in Concord, N.H. First line: What means all this great commotion, motion, motion.

Temperance hymn

Temperance hymn

Brown University

Within ornamental border. At head of text: Dedicated to the New Testament Total Abstinence Society.

Temperance hymn

Temperance hymn

Brown University

To be sung to the tune: Auld lang syne. Poetry. Within border of type ornaments. Poem in six stanzas. Date from appearance of item. First line: Can we forget the gloomy time.

Temperance ball

Temperance ball

Brown University

Invites Whigs and Democrats to join the Cold Water Army in the temperance cause. Invites Whigs and Democrats to join the Cold Water Army in the temperance cause. By Mr. J.M. Newson, of Lancaster, Pa. To be sung to the tune: Rosin the bow. Text of song in eleven four-line stanzas with varied four-line chorus beginning: And roll on the Temperance Ball. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Tell me ye leaves

Tell me ye leaves

Brown University

At head of text: The following lines by the late Mrs. E.E. Phillips ..

Tell me not in mournful numbers

Title from first line. Within border of type ornaments. Cut of woman's head at head of text. Advertisement for "Martha Washington" Hair Restorer. Simonds & Co., Proprietors, Fitzwilliam, N.H. A parody of A psalm of life, by H.W. Longfellow.

Tell me love's story again

Printed in red, brown and green on recto and black on verso on heavy paper in postcard format. Below title caricature of woman hitting seated man on head with a bat; in balloon beside women: Viper to propose to me; in balloon beside man: Z-wing blang and I only asked to hold her hand. Below illustration five lines of words and music of refrain of song. Colophon at end: By permission of Copyright MCMVI by the York Music Co. Albert Von Tilzer Mgr. 40 West 28th St. New York. "No. 4600 music series"--Verso.

Telegraph messengers' New Year's greeting: 1880

Printed in blue and black. On page [1] cut of messenger boy holding paper inscribed: Happy New Year; on page [4] cut of hand holding jagged lightning flashes. Poem within double-line border printed over combined width of pages [2]-[3], with decorated initial. Cover title.

Telegraph messenger's holiday greeting

Printed on pink paper; cut of messenger on page [1] within ornamental frame; cut of relief carving of Cupid on page [4] captioned: Happy New Year. Poem in eight eight-line stanzas. At end of poem: Compliments of messenger boy. Date supplied when purchased in 1925.

Teddy's dawg

Teddy's dawg

Brown University

To be sung to the tune: Casey Jones. Poetry. Within red single-line border. Cut of bulldog on red ground at top center of border; cut of hat labelled T. R. at bottom center. In upper left-hand corner at head of title: Republican National Convention, Coliseum, Chicago, Ill. June, 1912. Song in three stanzas with chorus. In lower right-hand corner: Supplied by the Patterson-Gibbs Advertising Co. (The Wallace Press) Chicago. First line: Teddy's gotta dawg, but he ain't no hound.

Tears wiped away

Tears wiped away

Brown University

Within blue ornamental border. At head of text: "God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes." At end of text within border: No. 40.

Team work

Team work

Brown University

Printed on heavy paper. Poem in three eight-line stanzas. At end of text: With best wishes from The National Education Association. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Teach the children

Teach the children

Brown University

Broadsheet. Within single line border. Cut of flying dove at head of text on verso. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.