The national Dixie
Brown University
Pages [1,4] within single line border.
Performance and Entertainment
Digital collections that fall within the John Hay Library’s Performance and Entertainment STRATEGIC COLLECTING DIRECTION. Here you will find digitized materials that document the history and creative process of performing arts and provides a window into public life and popular entertainment in the Americas through plays, dance, film, music, photography, and pornography.
This collection is part of Brown University Library, hosted by Brown University.
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
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The national Dixie
Brown University
Pages [1,4] within single line border.
The national centennial song
Brown University
by Clifton Crawford. For voice and piano. Caption title. "Dedicated to the United States Army and Major Reginald Barlow." Advertisement for other songs: p. [7]
The national anthem of freedom
Brown University
Words composed by Mrs. J. Anna Lamont, March 6th, 1862. Pages [2] and [4] blank. Cover title. On page [1]: Dedicated to all lovers of Union and Liberty throughout the Universe. Entered according to the Act of Congress ... by Daniel G. Lamont ..... Text of song in five eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: March on ye valorous hosts, march on, unfurl your banners to the breeze, with different final chorus.
The national anthem
Brown University
Words by M.E. Doig ; music by the people. Printed in blue in two columns divided by single line within ornamental border. Text of song in 22 four-line stanzas. At end of text: To be had of all agents of the Davis Sewing Machine. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
The national anthem
Brown University
Words by M.E. Doig ; music by the people. Printed in blue in two columns divided by single line within ornamental border. Text of song in 22 four-line stanzas. At end of text: To be had of all agents of the Davis Sewing Machine. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
The national Angelus: The nation's tribute to our boys over there
Brown University
The nation's purest man, Abraham Lincoln: song & chorus
Brown University
Words and accompaniment by J.H. Cook; melody by permission of Wm. B. Bradbury For voice and piano
The nation's lament, over the death of General U.S. Grant
Brown University
By Annie C. S. Printed in two columns divided by heavy black line within mourning border. At head of text uncaptioned head-and-shoulders cut of Grant in military uniform within ornamental oval inner frame and rectangular outer frame with ornamental corners. Author statement in full: By Miss Annie C. S--, Jersey City, N.J. Poem in ten four-line stanzas.
The nation in tears: in memoriam Abraham Lincoln
Brown University
"May be sung as a solo, trio, duett or full chorus; arranged for the piano or organ"--Cover Words by R.C.; music by Konrad Treuer
The nation in tears: in memoriam Abraham Lincoln
Brown University
"May be sung as a solo, trio, duett or full chorus; arranged for the piano or organ"--Cover Words by R.C.; music by Konrad Treuer
The nation in tears: in memoriam Abraham Lincoln
Brown University
"May be sung as a solo, trio, duett or full chorus; arranged for the piano or organ"--Cover Words by R.C.; music by Konrad Treuer Excerpted from Demorest's Illustrated Monthly
The nation in tears: in memoriam Abraham Lincoln
Brown University
"May be sung as a solo, trio, duett or full chorus; arranged for the piano or organ"--Cover Words by R.C.; music by Konrad Treuer Musical americana (Harry Dichter) facsimile, 1956
The nation in tears: in memoriam A. Lincoln
Brown University
"May be sung as a solo, trio, duett or full chorus; also arranged for the piano or organ as a grand march"--Cover Words by R.C.; music by Konrad Treuer
The narrow way: part the first
Brown University
Within ornamental border, printed in two columns divided by single line. At end of text: Printed for F.H. ... 1850.
The narcotic stairs
Brown University
At end of text: J.E.G.
The naked hills lie wanton to the breeze
Brown University
Title from first line.
The mystery of life: from the cradle to the grave
Brown University
Title from cover. Printed at end of p. 3: N. Jack Trusch. Illustration on cover within a border of decorative type ornaments. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
The mystery of life: from the cradle to the grave
Brown University
Title from cover. Printed at end of p. 3: N. Jack Trusch. Illustration on cover within a border of decorative type ornaments. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
The music, the rooms
Brown University
Title from first line. Publication date from 2001 Lea Perron dealer's catalog.
The music, the rooms
Brown University
Title from first line. Publication date from 2001 Lea Perron dealer's catalog.
The music, the rooms
Brown University
Title from first line. Publication date from 2001 Lea Perron dealer's catalog.
The murdered wife: or, The case of Henry G. Green, of Berlin, Rensselaer County, N.Y
Brown University
Poem of 24 stanzas of four lines each about the 1845 murder of Mary Ann Wyatt Green by her new husband Henry G. Green and his punishment. Printed area measures 26.3 x 21.1 cm. Printed in two columns divided by tripple rule within border of type ornaments; possibly printed in Boston because of notation to this effect on verso of broadside.
The Mudsills are coming: new army song
Brown University
"As sung with great applause at Morris Bros. Pell and Trowbridge's Opera House"--Cover For voice and piano
The movies, the comics and radio
Brown University
Printed on blue paper. At head of title: Dedicated to Mr. Frank Charles. Title and first line same.
Printed in blue and black on heavy glossy white paper within single-line border; text in blue. At head of title lithograph of mouse in trap. Poem in two four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from dealer.
Printed in blue and black on heavy glossy white paper within single-line border; text in blue. At head of title lithograph of mouse in trap. Poem in two four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from dealer.
The mouse-trap
Brown University
Printed on pink paper. At end of text: Willie Penmore.
The mournful tragedy of James Bird
Brown University
A ballad; without music. At head of text, below double rule: Tune.--The tempest. For account of life of James Bird, cf. Dutton, C.J. O.H. Perry, p. 289-292. Printed in two columns separated by curvilinear line, within border of type ornaments. Printed area measures 25.5 x 17.5 cm. Not in Shoemaker or Checklist Amer. imprints. First line: Sons of Freedom, listen to me. Ballad also published with first line: Sons of pleasure listen to me.