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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Tilted moons

Tilted moons

Brown University

by S. Foster Damon. Poems. Publisher's dummy.

Tight thighs can be an island

Title from first line of poem. Printed and illustrated on handmade gray paper. Cited in Books at Iowa, no. 29, 1978, p. 40.

Tid the grey mare, or, Young Johnny, the miller ; and, Crazy Jane

Two poems. Caption title. Printed area measures 24.3 x 18.4 cm. Tid the grey mare was published under various titles. This version has 8 stanzas. Wood-engraving of rider with horse at left of title. Text is printed in two columns. In right column broken single line separates the two poems. Internal evidence suggests a Boston origin and the approximation of the imprint date. Thomas L. Philbrick, in "British authorship of ballads in the Isaiah Thomas collection," Studies in bibliography, papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, v. 9, 1957, p. 255-258, attributes "Crazy Jane" to Matthew G. Lewis.

Tid the grey mare ; and, Sandy & Jenny

Two poems. Caption title. Printed area measures 18.9 x 14.7 cm. Tid the gray mare, also published as the Gray mare, or Johnny, the miller, and beautiful Kate (Shoemaker 8561). This version has 8 stanzas. Printed in two columns divided by line of advertising: Sold Wholesale and Retail, corner of Merchant Row & Market square, (up stairs)-Boston. Leonard Deming was at this address, also given as no. 1 south side of Faneuil Hall, from 1829 to 1831. Not in Shoemaker or Checklist Amer. imprints.

Tid the gray mare, and, The bottle of rum

Two poems. Caption title. Printed area measures 23.7 x 18.3 cm. Tid the Gray Mare was published under various titles. This version in 8 stanzas. Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. At end of text: Printed and sold at no. 25, High Street, Providence. Henry Trumbull is known to have been at this address from 1826 to 1836. He worked as printer in Providence from ca. 1824 to 1838. Not in Shoemaker or Checklist Amer. imprints.

Thy kingdom come

Thy kingdom come

Brown University

Within colored ornamental border bearing legend. 5 Bible quotations at head of text.

Thursday

Thursday

Brown University

Poetry. Printed on card stock. Illustration in color on gold ground of Afro-American woman scrubbing door; 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.

Through the vista of the years

French fold; printed on double leaves. Colophon: 150 copies of the poem read by the author at Mills College on Degree Day. June 14, 1937 and printed by The Eucalyptus Press for Albert M. Bender for distribution among his friends.

Through the vista of the years

French fold; printed on double leaves. Colophon: 150 copies of the poem read by the author at Mills College on Degree Day. June 14, 1937 and printed by The Eucalyptus Press for Albert M. Bender for distribution among his friends.

Through many a hen-house you have roved

At head of title hand-colored wood-engraving of soldier caught on fencepost. Title from first line. Four-line poem. A similar item entitled Soldier at Brown University was published by the N.Y. Union Valentine Co. (HB37951)