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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Tramp! Tramp! tramp!, or, The prisoner's hope

Text of song in three six-line stanzas and four-line chorus beginning: Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marching. Author's name not on item. Suggested imprint and publication date from donor. Brown University copy trimmed so that some letters at ends of lines are missing.

Trajectory

Trajectory

Brown University

Diane di Prima. Poetry. Printed on olive paper. Vignette of animal. Imprint date from Lepper, p. 154. First line: Suffering, sd the Lama, is the greatest blessing.

Trajectory

Trajectory

Brown University

Diane di Prima. Poetry. Printed on olive paper. Vignette of animal. Imprint date from Lepper, p. 154. First line: Suffering, sd the Lama, is the greatest blessing.

Traitorism

Traitorism

Brown University

Printed in two columns, divided by single line. At end of text: Entered according to act of Congress ... in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. Zealous patriotic women are content if those they love ..

Tragical death of Urial Church

Urial dies from wound caused by scissors playfully thrown at him by his fiancee; Mariah is accidentally scalded by her father. Urial dies from wound caused by scissors playfully thrown at him by his fiancee; Mariah is accidentally scalded by her father. Printed in two columns for the first poem and one wider column for the second, with the last stanzas of the second poem printed vertically in the right margin, all within mourning border. In lower right corner within border: 1848.

Tragical death of Urial Church

Urial dies from wound caused by scissors playfully thrown at him by his fiancee; Mariah is accidentally scalded by her father. Urial dies from wound caused by scissors playfully thrown at him by his fiancee; Mariah is accidentally scalded by her father. Printed in two columns for the first poem and one wider column for the second, with the last stanzas of the second poem printed vertically in the right margin, all within mourning border. In lower right corner within border: 1848.

Tradesmans' hymn

Tradesmans' hymn

Brown University

Printed in one and two columns within double-line border. Poetry and prose. At end of text: Please hand this to the lady or gentleman. We will call in one or two hours. Friends, I am a mechanic out of employment and have been for a long time back, and hoping this will meet your kind sympathy, and please purchase one to help me along for the present. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Tradesmans' hymn

Tradesmans' hymn

Brown University

Printed in one and two columns within double-line border. Poetry and prose. At end of text: Please hand this to the lady or gentleman. We will call in one or two hours. Friends, I am a mechanic out of employment and have been for a long time back, and hoping this will meet your kind sympathy, and please purchase one to help me along for the present. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Trade cards for patent medicines manufactured by Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co

Cards ("trade cards" or "album cards") advertising Ayer's Sarsaparilla, Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, and Ayer's Cathartic Pills; each with chromolithographic illustration and printed advertisement on the reverse. Sarsaparilla card (depicting "the Deacon" and "'Liza") with note at foot on reverse: "'The Deacon.' A fine chromo-lithograph (7 x 13 inches, in 'statuette' style) of this original and popular subject, will be sent post-paid, to any address, with a set of our elegant album cards, on receipt of 10 cents ...". All three cards with glue, paper residue, etc. indicating removal from an album. From the patent medicine collection of Prof. Em. David S. Greer.

Trade cards for patent medicines manufactured by Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co

Cards ("trade cards" or "album cards") advertising Ayer's Sarsaparilla, Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, and Ayer's Cathartic Pills; each with chromolithographic illustration and printed advertisement on the reverse. Sarsaparilla card (depicting "the Deacon" and "'Liza") with note at foot on reverse: "'The Deacon.' A fine chromo-lithograph (7 x 13 inches, in 'statuette' style) of this original and popular subject, will be sent post-paid, to any address, with a set of our elegant album cards, on receipt of 10 cents ...". All three cards with glue, paper residue, etc. indicating removal from an album. From the patent medicine collection of Prof. Em. David S. Greer.

Trade cards for patent medicines manufactured by Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co

Cards ("trade cards" or "album cards") advertising Ayer's Sarsaparilla, Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, and Ayer's Cathartic Pills; each with chromolithographic illustration and printed advertisement on the reverse. Sarsaparilla card (depicting "the Deacon" and "'Liza") with note at foot on reverse: "'The Deacon.' A fine chromo-lithograph (7 x 13 inches, in 'statuette' style) of this original and popular subject, will be sent post-paid, to any address, with a set of our elegant album cards, on receipt of 10 cents ...". All three cards with glue, paper residue, etc. indicating removal from an album. From the patent medicine collection of Prof. Em. David S. Greer.

Total Abstinence Society

Printed on silk ribbon. Brown University copy mutilated with full title and original dimensions unknown. At head of title cut of eagle with spread wings holding shield, arrows, olive branch and scroll inscribed: E pluribus unum; at center ball inscribed: Temperance and slogan: Roll on the temperance ball! Includes text of temperance song and beginning of another. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence. Traces of word above title suggest "Massachusetts"

Toper's return from the bar: and Prisoner for life

Text printed in two columns divided by double lines containing advertising with type ornaments (four-petaled flowers) at each end. Line of advertising between columns: Sold, wholesale and retail, by L. Deming, No. 62, Hanover Street, 2d door from Friend Street, Boston. Deming used this address from 1832 to 1836.

Tooth mother

Tooth mother

Brown University

Patricia Olson. Printed in red, gray and black on heavy glossy white paper in postcard format. On recto uncaptioned image of woman. On verso: Patricia Olson. Tooth Mother screenprint, 1977, 20" x 28". "CIE postcard"--Verso.

Too young?

Too young?

Brown University

Pages [1,4] blank. "Too young" on page [2] and "Too old" on page [3]. No collective title; title from the caption titles of the two poems, each of which is signed, in print, at end by the author.

Too old

Too old

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Issued in postcard format. Caption title. On verso: House of Representatives U.S. - Part of Cong. Record - Free. followed by table of contents within double rule border.

Too many stupid people

Too many stupid people

Brown University

Cover title; cut of man's face and hands extends over pages [1,4]; hand on page [2]; poem on page [3] Acquired from Canadian dealer William Hoffer with broadsides mostly dating from the 1970's and 1990's.

Tongo Islands: and, Get married as fast as you can

Poetry printed in two columns divided by ruled line of advertising with type ornament on each side: Sold Wholesale and Retail corner of Cross & Fulton Sts. Boston. William Rutter was listed on Cross Street from 1829 to 1834. Preceding poem in first column: Sung by Mr. Phillimore, at the Warren Theatre. Not in Checklist Amer. imprints.

Tongo Islands: and, Get married as fast as you can

Poetry printed in two columns divided by ruled line of advertising with type ornament on each side: Sold Wholesale and Retail corner of Cross & Fulton Sts. Boston. William Rutter was listed on Cross Street from 1829 to 1834. Preceding poem in first column: Sung by Mr. Phillimore, at the Warren Theatre. Not in Checklist Amer. imprints.

Tongo Islands: and, Get married as fast as you can

Poetry printed in two columns divided by ruled line of advertising with type ornament on each side: Sold Wholesale and Retail corner of Cross & Fulton Sts. Boston. William Rutter was listed on Cross Street from 1829 to 1834. Preceding poem in first column: Sung by Mr. Phillimore, at the Warren Theatre. Not in Checklist Amer. imprints.

Tom, Tom, the piper's son

Broadsheet printed in colors on white paper; text in red and black. On recto colored illustrations of a boy wearing kilt stealing pig and eating fritters, and of container of Ko-Nut; on verso colored illustration of man selling buns, two children, and Ko-nut container. Advertising card for Ko-Nut, a "pure cocoanut product for shortening and frying," uses adaptations of nursery rhymes. Publisher from label on illustrated container. Suggested range of publication dates because similar Ko-Nut advertisement (Brown University copy HB35420) is entitled "Twentieth century Mother Goose" and from internal evidence.