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 baby's welcome
1 broadsheet. With conjugate blank leaf. Within ornamental border. At head of text: Inscribed to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Morton.
The baby's complaint
Baby complains of rough treatment by well-meaning nurse who jounces him incessantly. Baby complains of rough treatment by well-meaning nurse who jounces him incessantly. Printed on peach paper within border of ornamental type sections. Poem in five stanzas of six or eight lines. Possible range of publication dates from other dated items in scrapbook from which Brown University copy was removed.
The baby
Caption title. Poetry in four four-line stanzas printed in black on ivory paper Broadside removed from scrapbook containing material printed between 1850 and 1861 which suggested possible range of publication dates for this undated piece. Printed on white paper (18 x 11 cm.); mounted on paper (22 x 14 cm.)
The baby
Caption title Poetry in four four-line stanzas printed in black on ivory paper Broadside removed from scrapbook containing material printed between 1850 and 1861 which suggested possible range of publication dates for this undated piece.
The Babe
Pages [2] and [4] blank. At head of text on page [3] drawing of flying figure. Sewn into lettered illustrated wrapper painted red on outside. Title from page [1], not wrapper. Drawing of naked angel on front cover. Colophon on inner back cover: Reprinted by permission of the executors of Mary Coleridge, from her "Poems" published by Messrs. Elkin, Matthews and Marot. The Cummington Press, Cummington, Massachusetts. Drawings after William Blake.
The awning man
The awning man
The awful malignant fever at Newburyport, in the year 1796
Prose and poetry. Printed in four columns. Cuts of 44 coffins in 2 rows at head. At head of text: An elegiac epistle to the mourners, on the death of forty four persons, who died of a malignant fever in Newburyport and the adjacent towns, in the summer and autumn of the year 1796--Together with a short account of that alarming disorder--by Jonathan Plummer, jun. At end of text below double rule: Printed for and sold by the author--Price 4 1/2 d. Short poem included in A short account, beginning: You're welcome to the blissful shore.
The awful malignant fever at Newburyport, in the year 1796
List of those who died (First lines: Miss Flood, Mr. Davis Lamber, Miss Hannah Cilley -- Elegiac epistle (First line: Daughters of Eve and sons of men) -- A short account of the ravages of the Yellow Fever, at Newburyport, in the year 1796 (First line: Although the execution done by this disorder) -- Invitation to the inhabitants of Newburyport, who have fled to the country, on account of the malignant fever (First line: The dreadful fever is no more) Prose and poetry. Printed in four columns Cuts of 44 coffins in 2 rows at head At head of text: An elegiac epistle to the mourners, on the death of forty four persons, who died of a malignant fever in Newburyport and the adjacent towns, in the summer and autumn of the year 1796--Together with a short account of that alarming disorder--by Jonathan Plummer, jun. At end of text below double rule: Printed for and sold by the author--Price 4 1/2 d Short poem included in A short account, beginning: You're welcome to the blissful shore.
Poetry. Printed in three columns divided by single lines. Wood-engraving of man at left of title and of devil and angel standing over four gamblers at right. Printed area measures: 26.0 x 18.9 cm. Poem in 41 numbered four-line stanzas. At end of text: Composed by the author of the Mournful song. Author's name not on item, but Shaw wrote A mournful song on the death of the wife and child of Mr. Nathaniel Knights; other broadsides by him were printed in Maine. Not in Shaw & Shoemaker. First line: Good people all, both great and small.
The awakening
Within single line border.
The awakening
Within single line border.
The awakening
At head of text: A child's walk in a British Columbia forest.
The avengers: America's Marseillaise
words by Will Reed Dunroy ; music by Chas. Lagourgue. March for voice and piano. Page 1 unnumbered. Cover title. As sung by: Jenny Dufau.
The autoist's dream ride
Within double line border.
The autoist
The autoist
The autoist
The author of the ballads or any other man
Pages [2-4] blank; ruled. Printed in green. At head of text: By R.B. Nicol, author and publisher of a choice collection of popular songs. Address 271 Penn. Avenue, care Gibson Brothers, Printers, Washington, D.C. At end of text: Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864 ..
The atomic bomb
Printed on yellow paper. Within single line border.
The atomic age
The Atlantic telegraphic cable song
Tune: All's Well. Within ornamental border printed in two columns. At head of text: Respectfully dedicated to all patriotic Americans and Englishmen .. At end of text: Cincinnati, Ohio.
The Atlantic telegraph
The Atlantic cable hymn
Within ornamental border.
The assassination and death of James Fisk, Jr.
Apologia for past excesses by murdered wealthy businessman J. Fisk. Apologia for past excesses by murdered wealthy businessman J. Fisk. Poetry in 78 lines printed within border of type ornaments in two columns divided by single line. In lower margin below border: Trade supplied by the Eastern News Company, 13 Water Street, Boston.
The assassin's vision: ballad
For voice and piano Words & music by J.W. Turner "Note: This ballad was suggested on seeing the representation of the assassin Booth wildly fleeing through the forest on his horse, startled by the apparition of his victim appearing in the trees & around him"--Cover
The aspiring city
Within border of type ornaments.
The asparagus seedpacket grace
Printed in dark blue and black on cream paper. Poem in eight lines. "So we send you warm greetings .... Mary, Laura & Walter Hamady"--Colophon.
The artists' wife
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