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
Plastic cups and instructions for "Twin Glass Suspension"
Plastic bag containing miniature playing cards.
Plasterer
Printed in colors on white paper; text in black. At head of title colored caricature of man carrying two hods of plaster. Comic valentine with six-line poem. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Plant a watermelon on my grave and let the juice soak through
by Frank Dumont & R.P. Lilly For voice and piano Caption title Advertisements for other music: p. [1-2], 5, [6]
Plant a little garden in your own back yard
words by Walter Hirsch and Bert Lewis ; music by Walter Leopold. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Moonlight waltz": p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of back yard gardens; photograph of Bert Lewis and J. Walter Leipold [i.e. Leopold], The Merry Men from Songland.
Place of torment
Pizzzz with forg: artist, Michael Basinski
Printed in colors on heavy glossy white paper in postcard format; text on verso in black. On recto collage with words and illustrations including green frog. On verso information about SoundVision/VisionSound III, an international exhibition of "verbo-visual artwork & performance" July 7-Aug. 6, 2005 at the Nave Galley in Somerville, Mass. "Post card 4."
Pizzzz with forg: artist, Michael Basinski
Printed in colors on heavy glossy white paper in postcard format; text on verso in black. On recto collage with words and illustrations including green frog. On verso information about SoundVision/VisionSound III, an international exhibition of "verbo-visual artwork & performance" July 7-Aug. 6, 2005 at the Nave Gallery in Somerville, Mass. "Post card 4"
Pitying the wintry clod
Poetry. Printed in blue-green on cream paper; within edged border. Title from first line. Author's name not printed on item. Imprint information from dealer, David J. Holmes of Philadelphia.
Composed by A.W. Harmon. Poetry printed in two columns divided by single line; within ornamental border. Possible range of dates suggested by internal evidence, e.g. border.
Composed by A.W. Harmon. Poetry printed in two columns divided by double rule; within ornamental border; "P" in title as decorated initial. Internal evidence, e.g. border and indication of Civil War coming to an end, suggests possible range of dates.
Composed by A.W. Harmon. Poetry printed in two columns within ornamental border. Possible range of dates suggested by internal evidence, e.g. border.
Composed by A.W. Harmon. Poetry printed in two columns divided by double rule, within scalloped ornamental border. Internal evidence, e.g. border and indication of Civil War coming to an end, suggests possible range of dates.
Composed by A. W. Harmon. Poetry printed in two columns divided by double rule; within ornamental border. "P" in Pity and "S" in Sorrowful are decorated initials. Internal evidence, e.g. border, suggests possible range of dates.
Pity the poor seaman
Within ornamental border. At end of text: Thomas Porter, Seamen's Missionary, No. 159 Queen St., Phila.
Pity the blind
Poem, in 6 stanzas; an appeal for charity. Title in capital letters. At head of text: Tune--The watcher. Some other eds. attributed to Anthony K. Simmons, of Tiverton, R.I., or New Bedford, Mass. A similar work, with verses 2-6 almost identical to verses 1-5 in this ed., was issued under the same title and attributed to "Mrs. Nancy J. Smith, a poor blind woman". At end of text, below border: Berry, Printer, 37 Plum St., Portland. Printed in reddish-brown within border of type ornaments. First line: Come all true hearted people.
Pity the blind
Composed by Miss Nancy J. Smith, a poor blind woman. Poem in seven eight-line stanzas. At head of title two-line verse, with first line: "Do unto others as we would. Attribution questionable: one of several broadsides on a wide variety of subjects purporting to have been written by Nancy J. Smith, variously described. The text appears to suggest a publication date in the later part of the 19th century; cf. reference to a "large steamer". Printed area: 22.4 x 6.7 cm.
Pity the blind
By Anthony K. Simmons, Tiverton, R.I. Poem, in 6 stanzas; an appeal for charity. Title reads (Including capitalization): Pity the Blind. BY ANTHONY K. SIMMONS, Tiverton, R.I. Attribution to Simmons questionable; a similar work, with verses 2-6 almost identical to verses 1-5 in this ed., was issued under the same title and attributed to "Mrs. Nancy J. Smith, a poor blind woman". At head of text: Tune--The watcher. Below text, two endorsements: The bearer of this is well known in New Bedford ... [Printed signature:] George S. Alexander, pastor of M.E. Church, South Truro. Having known Anthony K. Simmons for a number of years ... [Printed signature:] Rev. Moses How. Printed area: 22.8 x 9.7 cm. Printed within border of type ornaments on yellow paper; decorative rules separate title from author statement and the statement from name of tune. First line: Come all true hearted people.
Pity the blind
By Anthony K. Simmons, Tiverton, R.I. Printed on yellow paper within border of type ornaments. Poem, in 6 stanzas; an appeal for charity. To be sung to the tune: The watcher. Attribution to Simmons questionable; a similar work, with verses 2-6 almost identical to verses 1-5 in this version, was issued under the same title and attributed to "Mrs. Nancy J. Smith, a poor blind woman". Below text, two endorsements: The bearer of this is well known in New Bedford ... [Printed signature:] George S. Alexander, pastor of M.E. Church, South Truro. Having known Anthony K. Simmons for a number of years ... [Printed signature:] Rev. Moses How. Printed area: 24 x 7.6 cm. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Pity the blind
Poem, in 6 stanzas; an appeal for charity. A similar work, with verses 2-6 almost identical to verses 1-5 in this ed., was issued under the same title and attributed to "Mrs. Nancy J. Smith, a poor blind woman". At head of text: Tune--The watcher. Below text, an endorsement: Having known Anthony K. Simmons for a number of years ... [Printed signature:] Rev. Moses How, New Bedford, July 12, 1859. Printed area: 22.6 x 7.8 cm. Printed within elaborate border of type ornaments on white paper; short rules separate title from tune and tune from text; long rule separates text from the endorsement. First line: Come all true hearted people.
Pity the blind
By Anthony K. Simmons, of Tiverton, R.I. Poem, in 6 stanzas; an appeal for charity. Attribution to Simmons questionable; a similar work, with verses 2-6 almost identical to verses 1-5 in this ed., was issued under the same title and attributed to "Mrs. Nancy J. Smith, a poor blind woman". At head of text: Tune--The watcher. Below text, two endorsements: [Finger pointing right] The bearer of this is well known in New Bedford ... [Printed signature:] Geo. S. Alexander, pastor M.E. Church, South Truro. [Finger pointing right] Having known Anthony K. Simmons for a number of years ... [Printed signature:] Rev. Moses How. Printed area: 23.5 x 7.9 cm. Printed within border of type ornaments on blue paper; decorative rule separates title from author statement; short straight rules separate author statement from name of tune and tune name from text; and long wavy rule separates text from the endorsements. First line: Come all true hearted people.
Pisano! 1280. 1879
At head of text: Dedicated to the Royal Society of Heraldry, Pisá, Italy, by C.D. Bradlee. At end of text: Andrea Pisano! Born in Pisá, Italy 1280.
Pipe laying in church: a new song
Tune: The Battle of the Kegs. -- or, "Tippecanoe and Tyler too." Printed in two columns divided by single line.
Pioneers 1880
Pioneers
Poem in eight three-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of text: William Kimberley Palmer. Chicopee, Massachusetts U.S.A. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Pioneer's song
Written for the Pioneers' reunion by Mrs. Jane M. McCully, and first sung Thursday, Sept. 11th, 1879. Tune: Auld lang syne.
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