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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Order of exercises for a temperance meeting: at the Marlborough Chapel, on Sabbath evening, December 6, 1840

Broadsheet printed in one and two columns divided by double line within border of type ornaments on recto and in one and two columns divided by single line, without border, on verso. Caption title on verso: Nothing sectarian or political in the temperance cause. Excerpted texts printed on verso, giving opinions of statesmen and clergymen include those of Edward Everett, Daniel Webster, William E. Channing, Henry Ware, Jr., Francis Wayland, etc. Below border of type ornaments within border on recto: Printed by Kidder & Wright, 32 Congress Street.