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 cross
The crooked rib: The Forty First
First song attacks women and second praises the American Forty-first regiment. First song attacks women and second praises the American Forty-first regiment. Printed in two columns divided by double lines; possibly intended to be separated. Text of two songs, each in five numbered four-line stanzas. Printed area measures: 16.5 x 20.0 cm. At end of each poem: Printed and sold, wholesale and retail, by John Low, 139 Cherry-street. John Low was listed at this address from 1818 to 1821.
The crooked rib, and Scolding wife
Poetry. Printed area measures 18.9 x 17.1 cm. Text printed in two columns divided by line of advertising with type ornaments at each end: Sold by L. Deming, No. 1, south side of Faneuil Hall, Boston. Leonard Deming is listed at this address in Boston directories for 1829 to 1831. Not in Checklist Amer. imprints or Ford.
The crooked rib, and Scolding wife
Poetry. Printed area measures 18.9 x 17.1 cm. Text printed in two columns divided by line of advertising with type ornaments at each end: Sold by L. Deming, No. 1, south side of Faneuil Hall, Boston. Leonard Deming is listed at this address in Boston directories for 1829 to 1831. Not in Checklist Amer. imprints or Ford.
The crooked rib, and Scolding wife
Poetry. Printed area measures 18.9 x 17.1 cm. Text printed in two columns divided by line of advertising with type ornaments at each end: Sold by L. Deming, No. 1, south side of Faneuil Hall, Boston. Leonard Deming is listed at this address in Boston directories for 1829 to 1831. Not in Checklist Amer. imprints or Ford.
The crooked rib
Internal evidence suggests date approximation.
The creation
1 broadsheet. Publication date approximation from internal evidence.
The crawfish river
Processed copy.
The craven
At head of text: (From an unpublished poem ... ) At end of text: (Evening post.)
The cowboy's prayer
Within border of type ornaments.
The cowboy's life
Printed in color on heavy paper in postcard format. Text of poem in four columns superimposed on colored illustration of cowboy sitting beside horse. Poem in eight six-line stanzas. "At. to James Barton Adams"--Granger's index to poetry, 5th ed., 1962. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
The Cow-chase
Poem. Based in part on John André's The cow-chase [or cow-chace] Printed in three columns divided by single lines; double rule below title; all within double line border. First line: If you would know what happened once.
The cow boys' song
Text of song in three twelve-line stanzas with twelve-line chorus beginning: He has lassoed Uncle Sam. Type-signed at end: Mrs. Sarah Matilda Leete.
The covenant renewed: Josh. 24:19-28
Printed in colors on recto, black on verso. Illustrations, on recto, include a tree and a scroll. Sunday school lesson. Text of hymn on recto; on verso, lesson and quiz. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
The county fair
Poem in three five-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: Henry O'Meara. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
The country boy's call
Within border of type ornaments. At end of text: W.
The country 'Squire: Together with How stands the glass
Printed in two columns. At head of first column cut of country idyll. American Antiquarian Society supplied the imprint information (cf RLIN record MAAR 850220 4402-B) Not in Ford, or Shaw & Shoemaker. First line: Not far from town a country 'Squire.
The counsels of the ages
Printed in colors on heavy paper; text in black. At sides and bottom of text colored illustration of flowers on beige ground captioned: Copyright 1878 by L. Prank & Co., Boston USA; text on white ground. Poem in six four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of poem: Anson G. Chester. At end of text: Syracuse Daily Journal, 1 January, MDCCCLXXX.
The cosmopolitan: "the hymn of the League of Free Nations."
Poetry and prose. Printed on heavy tan paper. At end of text below rule: Copyrighted 1918 by Geo. Anston, with musical and all other rights reserved Geo. Constantopoulon, Agent, N.O. La.
The cork leg
Dutch merchant is run to death by his artificial leg. Dutch merchant is run to death by his artificial leg. Within border of type ornaments. Text of comic song in 13 four-line stanzas with chorus: Ri too rall loo rall, loo rall, loo rall, ri too roo ral lay. Not in Wolf, Amer. song sheets. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
The cork leg
Dutch merchant is run to death by his artificial leg. Dutch merchant is run to death by his artificial leg. Within border of type ornament sections. Text of comic song in 13 four-line stanzas with two-line chorus beginning: Ri too ral, lu ral, lu ral. At end of text below curvilinear line and within lower border: J. Andrews, Printer, 38 Chatham St., N.Y. Andrews used this address from 1853 to 1859. Not in Wolf, Amer. song sheets.
The cork leg
Dutch merchant is run to death by his artificial leg. Dutch merchant is run to death by his artificial leg. Within border of type ornament sections. Text of comic song in 13 four-line stanzas. At end of text below curvilinear line and within lower border: H.J. Wehman, Song Publisher, 50 Chatham St., New York. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence. Not in Wolf, Amer. song sheets.
The Copperheads
The Copperheads
The coons' excursion:: song, chorus, and dance
written and composed by Rudolph O. Goldsmith For voice and piano Caption title
The converted drunkard's joy
Composed by John Costin Eames--North Yarmouth, Massachusetts. Printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line within border of type ornaments. Autobiographical poem in 20 four-line stanzas. Suggested publication date from internal evidence; Eames states he stopped drinking in 1829.
The convert's hymn: together with the Indian chief spiritualized, & There's nothing true but heaven
Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments; type ornaments between hymns.
The conversion of A.W. Harmon
Written by himself. Poetry printed in two columns within border of type ornaments. Internal evidence, e.g. border,mention of Portland, Me., suggests possible range of dates and place of publication.
The conversion of A.W. Harmon
Written by himself. Poetry printed in two columns within border of type ornaments. Internal evidence, e.g. border,mention of Portland, Me., suggests possible range of dates and place of publication.
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