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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The twelfth day of April

Pages [2]-[3] blank. Printed in red and gold within gold single-line border on pages [1] and [4]; text in red. Title from first line. Poem in eight four-line stanzas. Suggested place and date of publication from mention of fire in Chelsea, which was virtually destroyed by fire Apr. 12, 1908; cf. Encyclopedia of American facts and dates, 6th ed., New York, 1972, p. 410.

The Twelfth chapter of Romans as a Klansman's law of life

Broadsheet folded to create 8 pages. Caption title. "The is the substance of a sermon delivered by Rev. W.C. Wright, of Plainview, Texas, on the principles of Klankraft as set forth in this wonderful scripture, and is reprinted from the March 5 issue of the Imperial Night-Hawk"--P. 1. "Form 430-J.F.H."--P. 8. Includes text of poem in three stanzas beginning: An old man traveling a lone highway.

The Twelfth annual Wallace Stevens program

Presentation and reading [by] Adrienne Rich. ; Presented by the Department of English of The University of Connecticut with the support of the Hartford Insurance Group ... April 9, 1975, Edwin O. Smith School Auditorium. Printed on tan paper. Includes two poems each by the first-place co-winners, Michael North and Alex Smith, and biographical information about Rich and Wallace Stevens. Issued with broadside entitled The fact of a doorframe by Adrienne Cecile Rich (Brown Univ. copy HB37311/CT)

The turn of the tide

The turn of the tide

Brown University

At end of text: Newton, Mass. Walter Daniel copyright. Within single line border. Date supplied by dealer.

The turkish clocks

The turkish clocks

Brown University

Printed in red and blue. Title in red within blue line crescent. At end of text: A free broadside.

The truth unfolded, or, Life in a whaler

Printed in three columns within border of type ornaments. At head of center column wood-engraving of sailing ship. Poem in 30 four-line stanzas. Describes ill-treatment of sailors by captain. Place of publication suggested because of mention of town of Warren as home port; date approximation from internal evidence.

The truth shall keep us free!

by William Carpenter. Broadsheet within single-line border with crossed corners on recto; no border on verso. On recto poem in 14 four-line stanzas. On verso, headed Wallace's wonderful water, prose defense of theory that the Earth is flat. Colophon at end of text on verso below rule: Published by John Hampden, Balham, Surrey.

The truth about women

The truth about women

Brown University

At end of text: The Uncle Nick Show WPAW 550 on your radio. ABC for Southeastern New England.

The truth

The truth

Brown University

Ted Joans. Poem. At end of text, blind embossed colophon: Printed ... 30 Oct. '78 by Dikko Faust at the Center for Book Arts, NYC. Printed on heavy cardboard; verso black. At end of poem, type ornament of hand with index finger pointing at name, Ted Joans. First lines: If you should see/ a man/ walking down a crowded street.

The trumpets

The trumpets

Brown University

Photograph of author. At head of text: This poem which is now published for the first time ... was the last poem he ever wrote.

The trumpets

The trumpets

Brown University

Photograph of author At head of text: This poem which is now published for the first time ... was the last poem he ever wrote

The true shepherd

The true shepherd

Brown University

Poem in seven numbered stanzas followed by bible passage on page 4. Below text on page 1: No. 34. At end of text on page 4: American Tract Society, 150 Nassau St., New York. The American Tract Society was located at the above address between 1832 and 1894, and again starting in 1899. This piece printed in "old" type before 1848. Dated because hymn according to the Dictionary of hymnology (1892, p. 559), was first published in 1849.

The true Samaritan

The true Samaritan

Brown University

Pages [1] and [4] blank. Initial block. Poem in seven seven-line stanzas. Author's name, imprint and suggested range of publication dates from dealer.

The true Samaritan

The true Samaritan

Brown University

Pages [1] and [4] blank. Initial block. Poem in seven seven-line stanzas. Author's name, imprint and suggested range of publication dates from dealer.

The true Samaritan

The true Samaritan

Brown University

Pages [1] and [4] blank. Initial block. Poem in seven seven-line stanzas. Author's name, imprint and suggested range of publication dates from dealer.

The true prophetess

The true prophetess

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by ornamental chain decoration. At head of text: Acts ii. 17, 18. And it shall come to pass in the last days .. Poem in 23 numbered four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The true laddie

The true laddie

Brown University

By Julia M. Thayer. At head of title cut of little boy in outdoor chair. Caption title. In upper right corner of page [1]: No. 20. Prose and poetry. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The trout

The trout

Brown University

David Walker. Printed in blue and black on beige card stock. At head of title: Edge Broadsheet No. 1. Colophon in lower half of p. [1]: 100 copies printed at The Green Leaf Press by Edge ...

The triumph of liberty

The triumph of liberty

Brown University

Pages [1] and [4] blank. Text printed with music for first stanza on page [2]; other four stanzas on page [3] At foot of page [2] note beginning: The words of this song were written in 1843, by the late Henry Ware, Jr. .... Suggested range of publication date from internal evidence and mention of date of Ware's text; song calls for abolition of slavery which occurred in 1863.

The triple link

The triple link

Brown University

Within double line border with corner ornaments. Printed on green paper.

The triple link

The triple link

Brown University

Within double line border with corner ornaments. Printed on green paper.

The triple link

The triple link

Brown University

Within double line border with corner ornaments. Printed on green paper.