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
Since daddy went away
Simultaneous Temperance meetings, Feb. 22, 1842
At head of text: The Committee appointed to make arrangements for Temperance Meetings on the above day at the Beneficent Congregational Church present the following Order of Exercises .. Contains songs and hymns.
Simply a marching song: democracy's call : swat the bugaboo
words and music by Estelle Gray, Mischa Lhevinne. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Information about bugaboos: p. [4] Cover illustration: Uncle Sam swatting a "bugaboo" Also published for: band and orchestra.
Simple touching lines
Printed in two lines divided by curvilinear line. After prose introduction, poem in eight eight-line stanzas beginning: Lay nearer, brother, nearer. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Simon Grub's dream
1 broadsheet. At head of text: Originally published in Our Dumb Animals.
Silver wedding: Mr. & Mrs. David A. Tewksbury
Poetry. Within double-line border on all pages, with ornamental corners on page [1] Initialed at end: F.A.D.A.
Silver wedding, April 13th, 1868: Ode written and respectfully dedicated to Mr. and Mrs. John Stearns, Newton Centre
Page [4] blank. Poetry. Cover title. To be sung to the tune: Sweet home.
Silver wedding song. For Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Wheeler. 1862-1887
Silver wedding song: To H.J. and M.A. Newton
Within single line border, printed in silver and purple. At end of text: May 8th, 1875.
Silver stein. "York Rite Founder's Cup, Thomas Smith Webb, 1771"
Silver rabbit-in-a-hat pin.
Silver Dollar: Philips & Rance, Great Falls, Montana
1 broadsheet. Broadsheet printed on card stock, apparently advertising a dude ranch. On recto colored illustration of cowboys captioned: The Big Stack is our land mark; artist's initials and date: C.M.R. 1908. Poem printed vertically on verso.
Silver clothes
by Angela Morgan. Poetry. Printed in blue. Date suggested because her book with same title was published in 1926 and poem also in her Afterwhere, 1936. First line: Someone in silver clothes.
Silver clothes
Printed in blue. At end of text: From Afterwhere by Angela Morgan The Poets' Press Publishers, Rockefeller Center, N.Y.
Silver anniversary dinner to Mr. Joseph C. Sweeney Superintendent of Schools Town of Burrillville
Tied in silver, lettered paper wrappers.
Silver anniversary dinner to Mr. Joseph C. Sweeney Superintendent of Schools Town of Burrillville
Tied in silver, lettered paper wrappers.
Silver
Poetry. Printed in green on cream card stock. At end of poem: Raymond Oliver. Date suggested because one of Postcard series #1 published in 1989. First line: Silver, if polished to a glow, does not.
Silently, tenderly, mournfully home
Printed on pale pink card stock. First line same as title. Poem in four numbered eight-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence, and because poem refers to "Volunteers," probably in Civil War.
Silent voices
Silent Sam, or, I never says nothing to nobody
Ornamental border at bottom, above colophon. Text of song in seven eight-line stanzas with chorus: To lol de rol, &c. &c. At end of text, badly mutilated in this copy: [Sol]d by John [L. Zieber] Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Silent night!
Within double line border.
Signs of the Zodiac: symmetrics
David McCord. At left of text on pages [1]-[3] reproductions of photographs of relief sculptures by Paul Manship of figures of zodiac. Caption title. Twelve numbered five-line poems, beginning with Aries: Ram. "A note on the poems" by Dudley Fitts, p. [4] "These poems were written at the request of Daniel Pinkham to preface any performance of his orchestral work, Signs of the Zodiac, commissioned by Arthur Bennett Lipkin. World première 10 November 1964 ... with ... David McCord reading the poems."
Signal service
Within ornamental border.
Sign with Smith's name and street number.
Sightings I-IX: & red easy a color
Broadsheet folded to create [4] printed pages and [2] blank pages. Checkerboard illustration in black, green, blue and purple on page [3] Prospectus for limited edition of book of poems by Jerome Rothenberg illustrated by Ian Tyson; includes order form. Includes poetry.
Siege of Platsburgh [i.e. Plattsburgh]: and, The old Commodore
Poetry printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. At end of text: Sold at 152, Ann-Street, Boston. William Rutter was listed at above address in 1829. The "Siege of Platsburgh" has been attributed to Micah Hawkins.
Sidney Lanier: 1842-1881
Printed in black on beige paper. At the bottom of the page: "Dedicated to: Richard Watson Gilder, The Friend of Lanier"
Side by side
1 broadsheet.
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