Broadside (printing)

A broadside is a large sheet of paper, generally printed on one side and folded into a smaller size, often used as a direct-mail piece or for door-to-door distribution. Traditionally, printed works were printed on broadside sheets, then folded and cut to produce books of a smaller page size than the original sheet.

In the UK the only national daily newspaper still printed in a broadsheet format is the Daily Telegraph, all the other serious daily newspapers (except The Guardian, which uses the Berliner format) have followed the style of the red tops and are now printed in tabloid format.

Broadsides have been taken by many small presses and publishers as a fine art offshoot of their work. Most often featuring a letter-press poem and accompanying art of some sort, these are frame-worthy pieces.

See also

• Dunlap broadside
• Street literature
• Broadside (music)

External links

• Historical Broadsides from 1849-1989 (searchable facsimiles at the University of Georgia Libraries. (DjVu & layered PDF format)
• Modern American Poetry Collection (includes broadsides) - Ball State University Archives and Special Collections Research Center - External link
• Broadsided Contemporary, original broadsides published monthly online and posted around the US and abroad - External link
• Library of Congress American Time Capsule (Three Centuries of Broadsides and other Printed Ephemera) - External link
• The Wall Poems of Leiden (Broadsides on buildings) - External link
• Poetry Center of Chicago Broadsides (fine letter press broadsides) - External link
• Confederate Broadside Poetry Collection at Wake Forest University