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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Three characters

Three characters

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Poetry and prose. Cover title. Below title on page [1]: Printed and published by Arthur Head in his Bookstore at 21 Broadway, New Haven, Ct. 1921. On page [4] at end of text: Broadway Broadside No. 4. 25 copieeis [i.e. copies] printed.

Thoughts suggested by Memorial Day

Prose and poetry. Caption title. At head of text: Reprinted from Narragansett times, Wakefield, R.I., May 25, 1906. At end of text: Isaac P. Noyes. Battery H, 1st R.I. Lt. Artillery. May, 1906. First line of text: Forty-one years since the surrender at Appomattox. While as a war.

Thoughts suggested by Memorial Day

Prose and poetry. Caption title. At head of text: Reprinted from Narragansett times, Wakefield, R.I., May 25, 1906. At end of text: Isaac P. Noyes. Battery H, 1st R.I. Lt. Artillery. May, 1906. First line of text: Forty-one years since the surrender at Appomattox. While as a war.

Thoughts suggested by Memorial Day

Prose and poetry. Caption title. At head of text: Reprinted from Narragansett times, Wakefield, R.I., May 25, 1906. At end of text: Isaac P. Noyes. Battery H, 1st R.I. Lt. Artillery. May, 1906. First line of text: Forty-one years since the surrender at Appomattox. While as a war.

Thoughts on the Holy Communion

by Arthur Cleveland Coxe. Printed in two columns with last stanza at bottom center. At head of title a cross. "By Rt. Rev. Arthur Cleveland Coxe, D.D., L.L.D. Bishop of Western New York." Poem in seven six-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from the period of Coxe's bishopric.

Thoughts on government

Thoughts on government

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Henry David Thoreau. Pages [1] and [4] blank. Initial block. Caption title. At end of text: East Calais, June 2, 1919. From "Mood songs," 1921.

Thoughts on a stormy Christmas

Within red line border. At head of title: Peace-On-Earth Broadside. Written and published for a few of my friends at Christmas, 1941.

Thoughts of other days

Thoughts of other days

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Poet asks aid because of loss of leg when a newsboy by falling from a train. Poet asks aid because of loss of leg when a newsboy by falling from a train. Printed on heavy paper within ornamental border at top and bottom and triple-line border at sides. Poem in four eight-line stanzas. At end of text: Jno. W. Brady. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence. Variants of this poem exist naming other authors and other causes for physical handicap; cf. Brown University items HB2769 and HB31271.

Thoughts of other days

Thoughts of other days

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Poet asks aid because of amputated limbs. Poet asks aid because of amputated limbs. Printed on heavy paper in blue within ornamental border. At head of text: Composed by E.C. Osborn. Poem in eight four-line stanzas. At end of text: Price--Anything you please to give. E.C. Osborn. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence. Variants of this poem exist naming other authors and other causes for physical handicap; cf. Brown University items HB16543 and HB31271.

Thoughts of other days

Thoughts of other days

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Poet claims to have been thrown from a train and crippled, and asks for money. Poet claims to have been thrown from a train and crippled, and asks for money. Within border of type ornament sections. Poem in four eight-line stanzas. At end of text, within border: Harry Walters. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence. Same poem used for begging under other names.

Thoughts of by-gone days

Illustration of steam train with landscape at head of title. At end of text: F.B. Wilson. Price--anything you wish to give.

Thoughts in verse

Thoughts in verse

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by Maurice Swabey, M.A. Vicar of St. Thomas, Exeter. Within single line border. Includes five poems. Suggested range of publication dates because poems refer to events in 1880's, the latest being the seventieth anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, 1885.

Thoughts in verse

Thoughts in verse

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by Maurice Swabey, M.A. Vicar of St. Thomas, Exeter. Within single line border. Includes five poems. Suggested range of publication dates because poems refer to events in 1880's, the latest being the seventieth anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, 1885.

Thoughts for all

Thoughts for all

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Printed in blue on glossy pale blue card stock within single-line border. Poem in four lines. At end of text, within border, in larger type: Price, Give what you wish. Place and date of publication from ms. notation on Brown University copy.

Thought parade

Thought parade

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by Francesco Bivona. Below title on page [1] reproduction of photograph of Bivona. Cover title. Prose and poetry. Suggested publication date from date of author's ms. inscription in Brown University copy.

Thought parade

Thought parade

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by Francesco Bivona. Below title on page [1] reproduction of photograph of Bivona. Cover title. Prose and poetry. Suggested publication date from date of author's ms. inscription in Brown University copy.

Thought parade

Thought parade

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by Francesco Bivona. Below title on page [1] reproduction of photograph of Bivona. Cover title. Prose and poetry. Suggested publication date from date of author's ms. inscription in Brown University copy.