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 books of the Bible
At end of text: M.R.
The bookman's lament
The booklover
1 broadsheet. In advertisement for Old Corner Book Shop, Providence, R.I.
The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand
Ezra Pound. Printed in black and blue on heavy pale blue paper with deckled right and bottom edges. No other text except colophon. Colophon: Handset in Michelangelo and Weiss, and printed for Friends of Coffee House Press. Suggested publication date from online cataloging for a variant with colophon: Designed, handset, and printed for Friends of Coffee House Press during the winter of 1990.
The Book of Kells
Within border of type ornaments.
The bonnie sweet lass o' Airlie
The bonnie blue flag
Variant of Rudolph 44.
The bonds
Poem imitating Poe's The bells, followed by prose attack on the banking system. Poem imitating Poe's The bells, followed by prose attack on the banking system. Poetry and prose. At head of text: Dedicated to Grover Cleveland, John Sherman, Amos J. Cummings and Secretary Carlisle, and with humble apologies to the shade of Edgar A. Poe. Printed in one and two columns. At end of text: From Bayonne Budget, April 21, 1894. Wm. Bradford DuBois.
The bond that binds
The bold engineer
Tune: Young Lockinvar. Poetry in nine six-line stanzas printed in black within double line border. At head of title cut of booted elephant carrying banner bearing legend: Oh dear! Oh dear! What have we here! At end of text: O. H. S. Baltimore, Oct. 14th, 1861. According to Ellinger, p. 28, O.H.S. is one of N.G. Ridgely's pseudonyms.
The bold Bowery boy
by Wm. Shepherd. Within border of type ornaments printed in two columns divided by rule. Woodcut engraving of man and woman at head of text in first column. "9" in upper right corner. Tune - "The bowld soldier boy." At end of text below border: Elton, 90 Nassau & 18 Division Street, New York. Elton is listed on 18 DIvision Street in 1841.
The boast of the lawless, or, The Neroite club
First, longer poem is boast of town militia or hunting club members, protected by town government, whose gunshots disturb Miss Smith; second poem calls for God's punishment on them. First, longer poem is boast of town militia or hunting club members, protected by town government, whose gunshots disturb Miss Smith; second poem calls for God's punishment on them. By Miss Caroline Smith. Printed in three columns divided by single lines. At end of text: Note--A petition was presented to the Selectmen .... Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.5RPB.
The blue Juniata
Poetry. Printed in two columns within border of type ornaments. At head of text wood-engraving of Indians and white men fighting, captioned: 'Wild roved an Indian girl.' At head of title: Price two cents. At end of text: Published by I.H. Welton, No. 4 Walnut Street, Lowell. Poem in four stanzas. Author's name not on item. Probable range of dates from internal evidence; song first published in 1844.
The blue flag: military march for the piano
Carrie Jacobs-Bond. March for voice and piano. Cover title. "Lovingly dedicated to General and Mrs. O'Neil"--Caption. Advertisement for other songs: p. [8] Cover illustration: flag of the Twenty-first Regiment of U.S. Infantry.
The blue devils of France
by Irving Berlin. For voice and piano. Caption title. "As sung in Ziegfeld Follies 1918"--Cover. Advertisement for other songs: p. [6] Cover illustration: silhouette of a soldier / Barbelle.
The blue coat
By Bishop Burgess, of Maine. Poem, in fifteen verses. Name of author at head of text. At end of text: Published by A.D.F. Randolph, No. 770, Broadway, New-York. Later collected in his Poems (Hartford, 1868) under title: The old blue coat. Printed area: 22.8 x 15.2 cm. Printed in two columns separated by a vertical line, within double line border. Above author's name, ills. of a soldier wearing a greatcoat and a contemporary national flag. First line: You asked me, little one, why I bowed. First line of chorus: The blue great-coat, the sky-blue coat.
The blue coat
Poem, in 15 verses. At head of text: The blue coat of the soldier. Below title: The following ballad is from the pen of Bishop Burgess of Maine, and was contributed by him to the book published and sold at the Sanitary Fair held in Baltimore. Later collected in his Poems (Hartford, 1868) under title: The old blue coat. Printed area: 25.6 x 5.7 cm. Double rule below text. First line: You asked me, little one, why I bowed. First line of chorus: The old great coat, the sky-blue coat.
The blue coat
Poem, in 15 verses. At head of text: The blue coat of the soldier. Below title: The following ballad is from the pen of Bishop Burgess, of Maine, and was contributed by him to the book published and sold at the late Sanitary Fair in Baltimore, under the sanction of the State Fair Association of the Women of Maryland. Later collected in his Poems (Hartford, 1868) under title : The old blue coat. Printed area: 26.4 x 9.6 cm. Within border of type ornaments. First line: You ask me, little one, why I bowed. First line of chorus: The blue great-coat, the sky-blue coat.
The Blue and Gray: Memorial Day ode for 1917
1 broadsheet. Broadsheet with poetry and prose. Text on both sides. At head of text: Dedicated and inscribed ... to Colonel Edgar Douglas White ..
The blue and gray
Dedicated to those brothers of the North and South who met here that this nation might be eternal.
The bloody shirt
Printed in two columns divided by single line. Within double-line border. At head of title: No. 1. Issued by the Short Tract Committee of New York.
The bliss of the redeemed
1 broadsheet. Poetry in 5 nine-line stanzas printed on ivory paper. At end "L. Howard, Toronto"; below illustration of dove with laurel wreath.
The blindman's appeal = Appel de l'aveugle
Within double-line border printed in two columns divided by double rule; one poem in each column. English poem with French translation beginning: Enseveli d'obscurité. Type-signed at end of each poem: B.F. Whipple. Suggested publication date from internal evidence.
The blind girl's lament: Written for one of the three blind sisters--natives of Cape Cod
Poetry. Printed in gold in two columns divided by curvilinear line within border of type ornaments with ornamental corners. Poem in sixteen numbered four-line stanzas. At end of poem, within border: Lynn Bard. Suggested range of dates from internal evidence and from date of poet's death.
The blind girl to the ladies at the "Fair,"
by E. Williams, Esq. Printed on yellow paper. At head of text: "We too shall see." Poem in five six-line stanzas. Suggested publication date from dealer.
The blind girl to the ladies at the "Fair,"
by E. Williams, Esq. Printed on yellow paper. At head of text: "We too shall see." Poem in five six-line stanzas. Suggested publication date from dealer.
The blind evangelist's song
1 broadsheet.
The blind boy, by Wm. R. Dempster
Author's name not on item. Gould wrote the words of the poem, Dempster the music. Publication date approximation from internal evidence.
The blessed hand
Poem in nine eight-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: S.T. Wallis. Baltimore, April 8th, 1866.
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