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
She will sleep to-night
1 broadsheet. Printed in green.
She will be yours once more
Printed in green.
She stood on the bridge at midday, boys
Printed on heavy glossy paper in postcard format. At head of title reproduction of photograph of woman in large hat with six men and boys. Title from first line. Poem in four lines about woman in a "merry widow hat." Possibly refers to farce The merry widow hat by Helen Sherman Griffith.
She sleeps in the valley
Within double border of type ornaments. Text of song in four four-line stanzas. Also called: Jane O'Malley. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
She sleeps by the banks of the Lee
She proudly displayed, then, the magical pail
Broadsheet printed in colors on heavy white paper. On recto colored illustration of four young women with pail of Cottolene; on verso cut in green of bowl of pastry. Title from first line. Advertising card for Cottolene, a mixture of cottonseed oil and beef suet used in cooking. On recto four-line poem about Cottolene; on verso testimonials beginning: I have made thorough tests of Cottolen. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence, especially the clothing.
She knows
Within single line border.
She is sleeping near my dear old Blue Ridge home
She is sleeping near my dear old Blue Ridge home
She is sleeping near my dear old Blue Ridge home
She is sleeping near my dear old Blue Ridge home
She is but a lassie yet
She has passed away
Written by Mrs. Abbie Hutchins, on the death of Miss Susie M. Smith, formerly of Denmark, Me., who died at Lawrence, Mass., Sep. 25, 1874. Poetry. Printed in one and two columns divided by single line within border of type ornament sections.
She has passed away
She gave to me and I did eat
Title from first line. Within double line border. At head of text: Genesis iii, 12.
She gave to me and I did eat
Title from first line. Within double line border. At head of text: Genesis iii, 12.
She found and named Saint Mary's Lake
At end of text: Dedicated to ... Mrs. Joanna Cronin, on the incorporation of the National Potash Company, Saint Mary's Lake, Nevada.
Shawnee cabin and other poems: Dr. Free's new book
Within double line border. Reproduction of photograph of landscape with log cabin within border at head of title. Advertising for Free's book.
Sharps and flats for Eugene Field
At head of text: His bones, .... are to be removed to a tomb of solemn splendor ..
Sharing
Pages [1] and [4] blank. Printed in blue and black on heavy white paper with deckled edge. Issued stapled into blue inner and pink outer paper wrappers; outer wrapper lettered. Poem in six numbered sections. Type-signed at end: Maud V. Preston. On back wrapper: "Done in the manner of the House of Sunshine, Litchfield, Illinois." Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.
Shannon side: and, Eveleen's bower
Poetry printed in two columns, divided by line of ruled advertising with type ornaments at ends: Sold wholesale and retail, by Hunts & Shaw, N.E. corner of Faneuil Hall Market, Boston. Above address is listed for the firm in 1834. Cut of landscape with stream at head of title.
Shamus O'Brien, the bould boy of Glingall
Poetry and prose. Poem on pages [1] - [3] within double rule border; advertisement on page [4] within double border of type ornaments and decorated line border. Announcement for Fred Maeder's romantic Irish comedy-drama: "Shamus O'Brien, the bould boy of Glingall" played by "Europe's favored Irish actor and vocalist Charles Verner" and "Miss Annie Lewis" in a supporting role. Portrait of Charles Verner in oval on page [1]; beneath drawing of prisoner led by guards. Possible range of dates suggested by mention of both Verner and Lewis in Odell's "Annals of the New York stage" during the 1880s.
Shamrock-green
Pages [2,4] blank.
Shall we vote for Greeley
Shall we s[ing in Heav]en?: from the 'Golden Chain" S.S. Book
Within border of type ornament sections. Text of hymn in four numbered four-line stanzas with varied five-line chorus beginning: Yes! oh, yes! in that land, that happy land. Below hymn notice of intended formation of a singing school for Sabbath school children of Allegheny City, as well as a class for adults. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and because Brown University copy found laid in book published in 1840 and inscribed with date in 1841.
Shall we know our friends in heaven?
Title same as first line. Tune: What a friend we have in Jesus.
Shall we go dwell with Proserpine
Title from first line.
Shall we find them at the portals
by J.E. Rankin, D.D., Washington, D.C. Poem, in 5 stanzas.
Shall we adjourn?
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