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
Songs as sung by the Luca Family, at their concerts
Printed in two columns divided by single lines within varied ornamental borders on all pages. At head of text on page [1] vignette of lyre. Includes text of four songs. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Songs and choruses for class meeting, July 26, 1854
Printed in two columns divided by single line. At head of text: Class of 1851. In English and Latin.
Songs
Page [1] within double line border, pages [2, 4] within single line borders with corner ornaments. Contains 5 songs.
Songbirds of the morning
Title same as first line.
By J.M.H. Poetry in 6 numbered four-line stanzas printed in gold within ornamental border.
Song. Written by Charles P. Ilsley. Inscribed to Franklin C. Moody, first director Casco Engine Company, February 9, 1849
Within ornamental border.
Song. Oh, Jamie brewed a bowl o' punch
Pages [2] and [3] blank. Embossed in upper right, same paper as his "Cruiskeen Lan", published ca. 1860, in the Hay Broadsides Collection (HB24229)
Song. Oh, Jamie brewed a bowl o' punch
Pages [2] and [3] blank. Embossed in upper right, same paper as his "Cruiskeen Lan", published ca. 1860, in the Hay Broadsides Collection (HB24229)
Song. Donald Morrison, the Scottish Outlaw
Air: "Irish Molly O."
Song. Donald Morrison, the Scottish Outlaw
Air: "Irish Molly O."
Song: You Rebels come along and listen to my song
Poetry. To be sung to the tune: Happy land of Canaan. Subtitle from first line. Has been ascribed to Joseph Borrowich.
Song: You "Rebels" come along and listen to my song
Tune--"Happy land of Canaan" Subtitle taken from first line. Ascribed at time of acquisition of item to Joseph Borrowich.
Song: Strike me a note of sweet degrees
First line same as subtitle. Poetry in three eight-line stanzas printed on grey linen weave paper; first published in 1890 Atlantic Monthly. At end of text: - T.W. Parsons. / December Atlantic.
Song: One patriot heart beats high
Sub-title same as first line.
Within border of type ornament sections. Text of hymn in five numbered four-line stanzas followed by Doxology. Author's name not on item. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Song: first dinner of alumni of Harvard University
Within ornamental border. At end of text: F.O. Prince, Class of 1836.
Song: Federal Fire Society, November 1870
With initial block.
Song: Come, saints and sinners, hear me tell
by Daniel Heath. Poetry in 8 numbered five-line stanzas. To be sung to the tune: Cork Leg, or Green Mountain Yankee. First line same as sub-title. Printed in two columns divided by single line within ornamental border. Possible range of dates suggested by internal evidence.
Song: adapted from Auld Lang Syne
Poetry in four four-line stanzas with chorus. At head of text: Sung at the celebration by The Maine Historical Society, of the eighty-fourth birthday of Professor Alpheus S. Packard, of Bowdoin College, December 23, 1882. Type-signed at end: Edward H. Elwell.
Song: "Pioneers, dear pioneers."
Tune: "Maryland, my Maryland" or "Martyn."
Song: "Pioneers, dear pioneers."
Tune: "Maryland, my Maryland" or "Martyn."
Song: "Pioneers, dear pioneers."
Tune: "Maryland, my Maryland" or "Martyn."
Song, as sung at the close of the West Hill Lyceum
by Jake Cook. Printed on blue-gray paper. Caption title. At end of text: Danby Corner, 1859.
Song, as sung at the close of the West Hill Lyceum
by Jake Cook. Printed on blue-gray paper. Caption title. At end of text: Danby Corner, 1859.
Song, as sung at the close of the West Hill Lyceum
by Jake Cook. Printed on blue-gray paper. Caption title. At end of text: Danby Corner, 1859.
Song written for the senior class of 1837
By John Weiss, Jr. Worcester, Mass. Text within border of type ornaments, printed in two columns divided by double line. To be sung to the tune: Auld lang syne. Text of song in seven four-line stanzas with varied four-line chorus. Imprint information from internal evidence.
Song written for the centennial celebration of the Congregational Sunday School of Troy, New Hampshire Children's Day, 1925: One hundred years
To be sung to the tune: Stand up, stand up for Jesus. Text of song in four eight-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: G. E. S.
Song written for the centennial celebration at Exeter
To be sung to the tune: Believe me if all those endearing young charms. Words of song in three eight-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from nternal evidence.
To be sung to the tune: Marseillaise Hymn. Poetry in 3 numbered twelve-line stanzas printed in gold within ornamental border. Author's name not on piece. Holmes published several broadsides in 1856 with poems dealing with the Brothers of Unity recognizable because of their uniformity of design.
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