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 call
Tune: Irish tune from County Derry. Within single line border. At head of text: Dedicated to the Thursday Morning Music Club, in commemoration of its 15th anniversary, March 1918.
The call
At end of text: M.L.P. (Mrs. Samuel Poor)
The call
The California land
The Calender Street fire
Within border or type ornaments.
The Calender Street fire
Within border or type ornaments.
The Calender Street calamity
by James Jowett, of Providence. Pages [2] and [3] blank. Within double-line border on pages [1] and [4] Vignette of bird and foliage at head of text on page [1] Title and first part of poem, in 28 lines, on page [4] and second part, in three eight-line stanzas, on page [1] Second part to be sung to the tune: The sailor's grave. First line of second part: The help in the shop did there appear. The Calender Street fire in Providence occurred Nov. 22, 1882--King's pocket book of Providence, 1882, p. 17.
Title from first line. Printed on blue paper.
The Cadet's challenge
Poetry and prose. Printed in blue and red. Contains beside the poem, the Cadets' invocation and notice.
The Cabot Trail in Nova Scotia
Broadsheet. Poetry. Postcard. Printed in brown on yellow paper within single-line border with maple leaves at top center and lower corners, verso postcard format with title and imprint information. At end of poem: Written by resident of Wickford, R.I. First line: Far from the city throughfares [i.e. thoroughfares?]
The button man has come to town
Title from first line. Contains advertising.
The butterfly
Within curvilinear border.
The Butler campaign
To be sung to the tune: Bonnie Dundee. Within double line border. Campaign song for Butler's victorious contest against R.H. Dana for Congressional seat in 1868.
The Butler campaign
To be sung to the tune: Bonnie Dundee. Within double line border. Campaign song for Butler's victorious contest against R.H. Dana for Congressional seat in 1868.
The Butler campaign
To be sung to the tune: Bonnie Dundee. Within border of type ornaments. Campaign song for Butler as a candidate in Massachusetts; he ran several times for governor in the 1870s and 1880s.
The butchered bull. A ballad of Paris Island
At head of text: The following memorial was addressed to Gen. Hunter ..
The butchered bull. A ballad of Paris Island
At head of text: The following memorial was addressed to Gen. Hunter ..
The butcher: poem
by John Barrell. Printed in black and red on recto and in gray on verso on white paper. At end of text illustration of wrecked butcher's shop; on verso vignette of man dining captioned: Good food. Poem in four four-line stanzas. Brown University copy acquired with other items from Hermes Free Press and Zephyrus Image.
The bustle in a house
Title from first line. Within black mourning border. At end of text: A supplement to American Heritage, December, 1963.
The burning success Smoke Up: (On the popular coon walk "Smoke Up")
At head of title: Dedicated to James & Sadie Leonard. At end of text: Copyright and published by Emil Keller, P.O. Box 196, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Alexander B. Beard, author. Within double-line border. At left of title wood-engraving in oval border of head and shoulders of man with mustache, captioned: The author. Poem in seven four-line stanzas. At end of text within border: Address of the author, 201 Winter St., West Manchester, N.H. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
The burial of Moses
Within single line border.
The burial of Moses
Within single line border.
The burial of Moses
Within single line border.
The burial of Latané
Printed on blue paper; text within border of type ornaments. At head of text: By Jno. R. Thompson. At end of text: Note- The beautiful image in the concluding stanza is borrowed .. Poem appeared in "Southern Literary Messenger," July and August 1862; also cf. version printed in His: Poems (New York, 1920) First line of poem: The combat raged not long, but ours the day.
The bureaucrats' song: In congress and out
Line border at head and end of text. First line: They have no right to the money they've earned.
The burden of time
At head of title: For private circulation only.
The burden of mothers: a clarion call to redeem the race!
by Charlotte Perkins Stetson. Within ornamental borders at top and bottom on pages [3]-[4] and at bottom on page [2]; ribbon decoration on pages[1] and [2] Cover title. Poem in 17 four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
The burden of mothers: a clarion call to redeem the race!
by Charlotte Perkins Stetson. Within ornamental borders at top and bottom on pages [3]-[4] and at bottom on page [2]; ribbon decoration on pages[1] and [2] Cover title. Poem in 17 four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
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