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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"Beed Bugs."

"Beed Bugs."

Brown University

At head of title: Exact extract from the joyful journal of the whaling bark Fortune. At end of text: Printed by M.B. at the Priceless Pearl ..

"Beed Bugs."

"Beed Bugs."

Brown University

At head of title: Exact extract from the joyful journal of the whaling bark Fortune. At end of text: Printed by M.B. at the Priceless Pearl ..

"Beed Bugs."

"Beed Bugs."

Brown University

At head of title: Exact extract from the joyful journal of the whaling bark Fortune. At end of text: Printed by M.B. at the Priceless Pearl ..

"Auld lang syne": closing hymn

by Rev. Wm. M. Thayer. Pages [2]-[3] blank. On page 4 list of committee members headed: Centennial Committee. Franklin, June 12, 1878.

"Attend your church" the Parson cries

Printed in colors on heavy white paper; text in black. At left and below text colored illustration of flowers and bird. Title from first line. Poem in four lines. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

"America! Did she forget?"

Printed in one and two columns. At end of text below single line: (Copyright applied for).Ridgewood Post No. 123 - V.F.W.

"Alis volax proprus": Oregon dry 1910

Broadsheet printed in pink and white on heavy glossy white paper. On recto map of Oregon with "dry" counties white and "wet" ones pink. Misspelled Latin motto on recto; all other text in English. On verso eight-line poem beginning: To make Oregon right. At head of poem on verso: "Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink."--Bible. Poem promises the undersigned will vote to make Oregon dry on Nov. 8. Place of publication from printers' union label on verso.

"Alabama."

"Alabama."

Brown University

Printed on heavy paper in postcard format with place for one-cent stamp. Text on recto printed in two columns in black on yellow ground surrounded by six colored reproductions of landscape photographs; in lower left corner: cCurt Teich & Co., Inc. Text on verso in blue; printed vertically in left margin: A-103--Ehler's News Co., Birmingham, Ala.; printed vertically in center: Genuine Curteich--Chicago "C.T. Art-Colortone" post card (Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.) Poem in two stanzas. At end of poem: From state song by Miss Julia S. Tutwiler. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

'Twas the night before Christmas

1 broadsheet. Title from first line. Margins of poem illustrated. Verso: color lithograph of dwarf Santa turning to ascend the chimney, signed: R.W.W. c1846. R.W.W. is Robert W. Weir according to "The Old Print Shop Portfolio. Dec. 1954. v. 14:4"

'Twas noon, and all the morning hours

Title from first line. At end of text: Metropolitan Job Print, 28 Ann St., and 14 Union Square, N.Y. Poem advertises a restaurant at 12 Ann Street which another poem names Dennett's Lunchroom. Date from internal evidence.

'Tis true Hunt's coal has fallen low

1 broadsheet. Printed on card stock. Title from first line. At head of lithograph of drunken woman and policeman captioned: Come with me my love. On verso: Mother Goose on Hunt's coal [First line: Sing a song o' coal bins]

'Tis sweet to be remembered

Printed in brown and gold on recto, black on verso, on heavy tan paper in postcard format; title in gold. In upper left corner gilt floral ornament. Poem in four four-line stanzas, with title counting as first line of first stanza. Typesigned at end: MES.

'Tis plain to see, from day to day

At head of title hand-colored wood-engraving caricature of standing man smoking pipe. Title from first line. Comic valentine. Poem in eight lines. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

'Tis of mother I'm thinking to-night (song text): song

by Michael Sweeney. Page [2] and [4] blank. Page [1] within ornamental border. First line same as title. Text of song in three eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Yes, of mother I'm thinking tonight.

'Tis of mother I'm thinking to-night (song text): song

by Michael Sweeney. Page [2] and [4] blank. Page [1] within ornamental border. First line same as title. Text of song in three eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Yes, of mother I'm thinking tonight.

'Tis no time to bicker

'Tis no time to bicker

Brown University

Title from first line. At head of text: Richmond, Missouri. At end of text: Hale McCormick 2nd Asst. Thinker.

'Tis better to give

'Tis better to give

Brown University

At head of title: Reprinted from The Evangelical Harrisburg Pa., June 9, 1897. At end of text: Written at Boston, Mass., Oct. 7, 1874.