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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This soft paper

This soft paper

Brown University

Poetry. Printed on cream paper with multicolored threads. Title from first line. Colophon in lower margin: Poem by Josephine Miles. Handmade paper by D. S. Farnsworth. Printed for Inkslingers at Neon Sun in an edition of 100 copies.

This poetry for sale for the benefit of a blind man

Blind man's appeal for charity. Blind man's appeal for charity. Printed in two columns divided by single line within border of type ornaments. Poem in eight eight-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

This night

This night

Brown University

Poetry. Page [2] blank. Printed in red on gray paper with one deckled edge. On page [1] reproduction of photograph of skyscraper at night tipped onto piece of red paper tipped onto card. Type-signed at end of poem: Robert, Marian and Richard Gutwillig. Publication date from donor of Brown University copy.

This moment yearning and thoughtful

Pages [2] and [4] blank. French fold; printed in black and green on double leaves. Vine decorations in green at top and bottom of cover. Type-signed at end of poem: Walt Whitman.

This modern immaturity

This modern immaturity

Brown University

Caption title. On cover reproduction of artwork entitled "Nymphs teasing" by Eilshemius; on page [4] reproduction of his "Evening at Ithaca, N.Y." Cream paper printed and illustrated in black. At end of text on page [4]: Mahatma Dr. Louis Michel Eilshemius, M.A., M.M.M., etc.

This is the work entitled Canada

by John Robert Colombo. Cover title repeated on page [2] Colophon on page [4]: This doublesheet was written and printed to celebrate the Occasion of the International Exhibition of Book Designs to be held in Leipzig, Germany. 1959 ... Designed and printed by Harold D. Kurschenska and handset by the author ..

This is the truth

This is the truth

Brown University

Printed area measures 22.5 x 17.7 cm. Verse in eighteen stanzas selected from thirty-four stanza version. Some textual variations in individual stanzas. Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments; within matching border of type ornaments. In lower margin below border: Tribune Press, No. 3 Canal Street. According to the Providence Directory the press was at this address from 1856 to 1859. Poem, also entitled "The dictates of reason, or, a solemn warning to unfaithful ministers" is attributed to Nathaniel Ladd, of Sanborton, N.H. in Ebenezer Hovey's "The true ministers and false ones" (ca. 1815). See also Bristol B 7248. This edition not in Checklist Amer. imprints, Bristol, Ford, or Shoemaker.

This holy night

This holy night

Brown University

French fold; printed on double page. Christmas card.

This holy night

This holy night

Brown University

French fold; printed on double page. Christmas card.

This form of life needs sex: a poem

by Allen Ginsberg. Broadsheet. Reprint from Bugger (NYC: Fuckpress, Nov. 1964) At end of text: Sexual Freedom League...The Blue Unicorn, 1927 Hayes, SF (at Ashbury) Processed copy.

This day

This day

Brown University

Pages [3] and [4] blank. Within double line borders.

This day

This day

Brown University

Pages [3] and [4] blank. Within double line borders.

This Christmas moon

This Christmas moon

Brown University

Printed in green on postcard with purple three-cent stamp printed on verso. At end of text: A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all from Margaret Dole McCall, 525 West 238th Street K @, New York 63, N.Y.