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 early called
The Earl of Don Donald
Within border of type ornaments.
The eagle's in the sky
Page 2 blank.
The eagle's in the sky
Page 2 blank.
The eagle's in the sky
Page 2 blank.
The eagle
The dying Yankee soldier's message to his mother
The dying words of Miss Polly Gould
Poetry in 16 six-line stanzas printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. Internal evidence, e.g. type, long s, suggests date approximation. Not in Evans, Shaw/Shoemaker, Ford, or Bristol.
The dying words of Miss Polly Gould
Poetry in 16 six-line stanzas printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line. Internal evidence suggests date approximation.
The dying soldier's prayer
Written by Mrs. Margaret Ray. Printed in three columns divided by single lines within border of type ornament sections. At end of last column vignette of open book. Between title and author statement: Lines written on the death of William Disbrow, who enlisted as a soldier in the Northern Army, having spent nearly three years faithfully in the service of his country, fell a victim to disease, and died in the hospital.
The dying soldier
The dying soldier
The dying soldier
The dying soldier
Within double line border.
The dying sergeant
The dying sergeant is also known as "British lamentation" At end of text beneath line of type ornaments: [Print]ed and Sold at No. 25 High Street Providence, where may be obtained 200 other kinds. Trumbull is listed at above address from 1826 to 1836.
The dying sergeant
The dying sergeant is also known as "British lamentation" At end of text beneath line of type ornaments: [Print]ed and Sold at No. 25 High Street Providence, where may be obtained 200 other kinds. Trumbull is listed at above address from 1826 to 1836.
The dying sergeant
Poetry in thirteen stanzas, also known as "British lamentation" Printed area measures 21.3 x 9.4 cm. At left of text, printed vertically: This, and 300 other Songs can be had near the Old Market, Boston. The imprint presumably is a variant address for Leonard Deming who before moving to another location in 1829, lists as his address, "East end Faneuil Hall" or "East end of old Faneuil Hall Market". Type used for title and other internal evidence support attribution to Deming as publisher. This edition not in Shaw/Shoemaker, Checklist Amer. imprints, Bristol, or Ford. First line: 'Twas on that dark and dismal day.
The dying of children
by Raymond Bremser. Cover title. A poem. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence; author born in 1934.
The dying marine on Suribachi
Printed in blue in two columns within double line border. At head of text: Inspired by the famous photograph by Jos. Rosenthal. Type-signed at end: William Hobart Royce. March 24, 1945.
The Dying groans of Levi Ames: who was executed at Boston, Oer 21st 1773, for burglary
Verse in twelve numbered stanzas, within mourning border; printed in two columns divided by heavy rules at head, cut of a hanging. At head, cut of a hanging ; not recorded in Reilly, E.C. Colonial Amer. printers ornaments. Printed area: 29.9 x 16.1 cm. Levi Ames was hanged for the crime of burglary at the house of Martin Bicker, a Boston merchant. Not in Bristol, Shaw & Shoemaker, Shoemaker, or Checklist Amer. imprints. First line: Ye youth! who throng this fatal plain.
The dying girl
Printed in two columns divided by single line within border of type ornaments. At head of text above rule wood-engraving of country road with two men standing beside horse. Poem in seven four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
The dying girl
Printed in two columns divided by single line within border of type ornaments. At head of text above rule wood-engraving of country road with two men standing beside horse. Poem in seven four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
The dying Confederate's last words
Printed on yellow paper within double line border. Poem in six numbered four-line stanzas. At end of text: Maryland. Sometimes attributed to L. Katzenberger; cf. E.P. Ellinger, The Southern war poetry of the civil war.
The dying child
Within border of type ornaments. Text of song in five eight-line stanzas with three-line chorus beginning: O my mother, don't you cry for me. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
The dying child
Within border of type ornaments. Text of song in five eight-line stanzas with three-line chorus beginning: O my mother, don't you cry for me. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
The dying boy to his mother
Within ornamental border. At head of text: The following lines were written on the death of George Gardiner, eldest son of George B. and Caroline Bird of Munnsville, N.Y., who died of the scarlet fever, September 23d, 1842, aged four years and ten months. First line: Your heart is very sad, mamma.
The dusty road
Photograph of author. At end of text: From "All in a Garden Fair and Other Verse." Publication date from publication date of All in a garden fair.
The Duster family
Each of the seven broadsides with same first line: each an advertising brochure for different household furnishings, illustrated according to the contents by Ralph Ellison Reid.
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