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.
This collection is part of Brown University Library, hosted by Brown University.

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Tuesday

Tuesday

Brown University

Poetry. Printed on card stock. Illustration in color on gold ground of Afro-American woman ironing sheet; dialect poem at upper right. One of set of seven cards advertising Higgins' German Laundry Soap, one for each day of the week. Date from internal evidence.

Tryste noel

Tryste noel

Brown University

Pages [2]-[4] blank. Christmas card. At end of text: Christmas greetings MCMIII. Olive and Frederick Whiting.

Try, try again

Try, try again

Brown University

Left margin contains ornamental border. At head of text: A revised version for certain kinds of Sunday-school workers.

Truxton's victory

Truxton's victory

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Broadsheet with poetry printed in two columns divided by curvilinear lines. Centered beneath title on verso wood-engraving of sailing ships approaching land; title on recto flanked by two small designs. At end of second column on recto: Printed by N. Coverly, Jun. Milk-St. Boston. This edition not the same as Shaw/Shoemaker 32972. Lacks sub-title "or brave Yankee boys", but has additional text with title on verso, which could have been added at a later time.

Truxto[n]'s victory: And Female drummer

Poetry printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. At end of text in second column: A great and large assortment ... may be found, at the corner of Marshall and Hanover Streets, Boston .. Internal evidence suggests date approximation.

Truth and justice

Truth and justice

Brown University

Poem says truth and justice are fighting to pass "this bill--ten hours a day." Poem says truth and justice are fighting to pass "this bill--ten hours a day." Within chain border of type ornaments. Poem in ten four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: Richard Driver. Valley Falls, R.I. Suggested range of publication dates because a ten-hour bill was being discussed in the Rhode Island General Assembly in 1885 and afterwards.

Truth

Truth

Brown University

Within single line border.

Truth

Truth

Brown University

Within single line border.

Truth

Truth

Brown University

Within single line border.

Truth

Truth

Brown University

Printed in calligraphy in black and tan on heavy gray paper in bookmark format. At head of title illustration of New York City subway token. Poem in one stanza of two lines and one of three. Facsimile signature at end of poem: Eileen Pyle. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.

Trusts: a satire

Trusts: a satire

Brown University

By Hon. Nat Ward Fitz-Gerald, "Poet of the Alleghanies" 1 broadsheet; folded into fourth creating eight pages. Poetry and prose. At head of text: Charles Town, W. Va. Dedicated to Mark Hannah McKinley.

Trusts: a satire

Trusts: a satire

Brown University

By Hon. Nat Ward Fitz-Gerald, "Poet of the Alleghanies" 1 broadsheet; folded into fourth creating eight pages. Poetry and prose. At head of text: Charles Town, W. Va. Dedicated to Mark Hannah McKinley.

Trusts: a satire

Trusts: a satire

Brown University

By Hon. Nat Ward Fitz-Gerald, "Poet of the Alleghanies" 1 broadsheet; folded into fourth creating eight pages. Poetry and prose. At head of text: Charles Town, W. Va. Dedicated to Mark Hannah McKinley.

Trust no future, howe'er pleasant!

Longfellow. Printed in red and green on recto, in black on verso on heavy tan paper in postcard format within ornamental border on recto; rubricated initial block. Title from first line. Four-line stanza.

Trust Him

Trust Him

Brown University

Within single line border with ornamental corners.

Trust and try

Trust and try

Brown University

Printed in red and black on white paper within architectural red border containing cut of boy in arch at upper left and inscription: Teach me thy way, O Lord, and lead me in a plain path. At head of title wood-engraving of man speaking to boy. Poem in two eight-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Trust

Trust

Brown University

Page [4] blank.

Trust

Trust

Brown University

Page [4] blank.

True rest

True rest

Brown University

Printed in two columns, divided by single line, with decorated initial.