Performance and Entertainment
This collection has the following subsets:
- Blondie Robinson collection of African-American Minstrel and Vaudeville photographs
- Ciné-Tracts
- Dupee Fireworks Collection
- Fernando Birri Archive of Multimedia Arts - Escritos
- H. Adrian Smith Magic Objects Collection
- Harris Broadsides
- Julie Adams Strandberg Collection: 50 Years of Dance at Brown University
- Lincoln Sheet Music
- Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830s-1920s)
- Rites and Reason Theatre
- Songsters and Hymnals from the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
- World War I Sheet Music
- Yiddish Sheet Music
Items in this collection
The Nightingale in the east
Poetry; at head of title cut of two women in furnished room. Poem in four eight-line stanzas using present tense about Miss Nightingale in the Crimea.
The nightingale
Poem advertises the Hockett Studio's pictures and frames. Poem advertises the Hockett Studio's pictures and frames. Within single-line border. At head of text: Copyrighted by S.A. Hockett. Poem in five four-line stanzas. At end of text: The Hockett Studio, Fairmount, Indiana. Publication date from Library of Congress stamp on Brown University copy.
The night that Massachusetts Avenue became Nietzsche's forearm
Robert Lowell. Processed copy; reproduced typescript. Poem in 12 stanzas of varying length. Suggested place and date of publication and author's name from ms. notation on Brown University copy.
The night has a thousand eyes
by Francis William Bourdillon. Broadsheet printed in red, black and gold on heavy gray paper within red and gold border on recto; rubricated initials. At head of title illustration of trees. On recto poem in two four-line stanzas. On verso advertisements for the Sparrell Print, beginning: The price-hunter is like the duck-hunter. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
The night after Christmas
Parody of the night before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore. Parody of the night before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore. Caption title. Poetry in six numbered eight-line stanzas printed in two columns. Illustrations between caption title and poem and throughout text. Date and place of publication supplied through internal information.
The nigger and the bee:: song and dance
words and music by Charles H. Sheffer Schottische for voice and piano Caption title Cover illustration: engraving of Afro-American couple and a bee
The new-born flag
The new-born flag
The New York Times grace before meat
John H. Finley. Broadsheet printed in green and black on heavy ivory paper within green border resembling the edges of an open book on recto. At left of text on recto cut of New York street scene; on verso within green single-line border cuts of building and of building facade captioned: The New York Times annex, New York.
The New York Times grace before meat
John H. Finley. Broadsheet printed on heavy tan paper within border of type ornaments on both sides. Poem in two four-line stanzas and one two-line stanza on recto. On verso reproduction of photograph of fireplace captioned: Fireplace in private dining room of The New York Times. In lower left corner on recto: March 12, 1924.
The New York Times grace before meat
John H. Finley. Broadsheet printed in green and black on heavy ivory paper within green border resembling the edges of an open book on recto. At left of text on recto cut of New York street scene; on verso within green single-line border cuts of building and of building facade captioned: The New York Times annex, New York.
The New York Times grace before meat
John H. Finley. Broadsheet printed on heavy tan paper within border of type ornaments on both sides. Poem in two four-line stanzas and one two-line stanza on recto. On verso reproduction of photograph of fireplace captioned: Fireplace in private dining room of The New York Times. In lower left corner on recto: March 12, 1924.
The New York Times grace before meat
John H. Finley. Broadsheet printed in green and black on heavy ivory paper within green border resembling the edges of an open book on recto. At left of text on recto cut of New York street scene; on verso within green single-line border cuts of building and of building facade captioned: The New York Times annex, New York.
The New York Times grace before meat
John H. Finley. Broadsheet printed on heavy tan paper within border of type ornaments on both sides. Poem in two four-line stanzas and one two-line stanza on recto. On verso reproduction of photograph of fireplace captioned: Fireplace in private dining room of The New York Times. In lower left corner on recto: March 12, 1924.
The New York riot
Within ornamental border.
The new year: the old year. 1876 [and] 1877
Written for the "Boston Daily Traveller."
The new year
The new watch on the Rhine
The New union
Printed in two columns divided by single line; double line beneath title. Printed area: 16.2 x 13.2 cm. Religious poem in 14 stanzas, each ending with the word UNION in capital letters. First line: Attend ye saints, and hear me tell.
The New union
Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. At head of title three wood-engravings, one of Jesus teaching and one of Jesus' entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. Printed area: 23.5 x 14.5 cm. Religious poem in 14 stanzas, each ending with the word UNION in capital letters. First line: Attend ye saints, and hear me tell.
The new sweet home, or, The dearest spot on earth: A parody
By Humanitas. Within border of type ornament sections. To be sung to the tune: Tramp, tramp, tramp. Text of song in three six-line stanzas with five-line chorus beginning: Home, home, home, of you I'm thinking. Copyrighted in Massachusetts by R. Thayer.
The new South. Vol. 1, no. 45. Port Royal, S.C., July 18, 1863
Printed in three columns divided by single lines. At center of title on page [1] vignette of palm tree on shore; at head of first column on page [2] vignette of American eagle with wings spread. Union newspaper includes news of the Charleston Expedition and the Battle of Gettysburg, poetry and advertisements.
The new poet
At head of text: By Richard Watson Gilder to Lewis McKenzie Turner.
The new Mary Blane
written by W. Guernsey; music by George Barker For solo voice, 4-part chorus, and piano Caption title Dates when publisher was at 115 Washington St. found in: Early American sheet music / Harry Dichter and Elliott Shapiro Words and music adapted from the earlier Afro-American song, "Mary Blane"
The new life
Witter Bynner. Printed in black and red with line decorations. On page [1]: woodcut of Dante. One hundred and fifty copies designed and printed at The Eucalyptus Press. On page [4]: A remembrance for the class of 1940 presented to them by Aurelia Henry Reinhardt at the Annual Breakfast, June 7, 1940.
The new life
Witter Bynner. Printed in black and red with line decorations. On page [1]: woodcut of Dante. One hundred and fifty copies designed and printed at The Eucalyptus Press. On page [4]: A remembrance for the class of 1940 presented to them by Aurelia Henry Reinhardt at the Annual Breakfast, June 7, 1940.
The new life
Witter Bynner. Printed in black and red with line decorations. On page [1]: woodcut of Dante. One hundred and fifty copies designed and printed at The Eucalyptus Press. On page [4]: A remembrance for the class of 1940 presented to them by Aurelia Henry Reinhardt at the Annual Breakfast, June 7, 1940.
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