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
Passing the puck
Issued in postcard format as "Alternative Press postcard." Poetry in six lines printed in blue on white cardstock; lower edge deckled. Typesigned at end: Gregory Maronick.
Passing the border lands
To be sung to the tune: Goodwin. Poem in two eight-line stanzas. At end of text: H. C. G. Place of publication from ms. notation on Brown University copy. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Passing souls: a hymn for war-time, to be sung kneeling
At end of text: C.C.
Pass the word along: (we'll be there!)
words and music by David Stevens. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Cover illustration: drawing of radio tower.
Parting song
Parting ode
Dated: Yale College, July 7th, 1847. Without the music.
Parting ode
Ode to members of Yale class graduating in 1864. Ode to members of Yale class graduating in 1864. By Henry M. Whitney, Northampton, Mass. Poem in four eight-line stanzas.
Parting ode
Parting hymn
by one of the pupils. Poetry. Printed on blue-gray paper within border of type ornaments. Printed vertically in border at left: Bradford Academy; at right: July 16th, 1850.
Parting hymn
Within ornamental border, printed on blue. At head of text: By a member of the senior class.
Parting
Parody on woman suffrage
At head of title: No. 1103. At head of text: Written by W.B. Yost - An Iowa farmer - Libertyville, Iowa. Price five cents per copy .. At end of text: Note - The copyright and all rights of this piece are for sale ..
Parody on Smiles
Texts of workers' songs praise Bristol and the National Rubber Company there. Texts of workers' songs praise Bristol and the National Rubber Company there. Pages [2] and [4] blank. Printed on heavy brown paper. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and because there is a parody on a World War I song but none on World War II songs.
Parody of the sanatorium
Parody
By a Green Bay Yankee. Satirical poem, in 17 verses, about the Convention of Delegates of the State of Pennsylvania, held at Harrisburg in 1827; the chorus is a parody of the chorus to Yankee doodle. Printed in two columns separated by a wavy line, within border of type ornaments. Printed area: 24 x 17.1 cm. Poem mentions "Good Irish Matthew" Carey and Daniel Webster, who were delegates, and John Quincy [Adams] and Andrew Jackson, who were possible candidates for the presidency in 1828. First line: Wool 'vention did in Dauphin meet.
Parlor scene
Poem in 52 lines. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Parents' and pupils' co-operative and vocational report
Broadsheet folded to create [3] pages on recto; verso to be read unfolded as one page. Verso chart for weekly farm and home chores to be filled out by parent and given to teacher. Poetry and prose.
Parents, know your job!
by Berton Braley. Page [6] blank. Broadsheet printed in sepia on ivory paper folded to cfreate [6] pages. Silhouettes of children in border on page [1] and on page [2]; drawings of parents and children on page [5] Includes poem in three ten-line stanzas and information about Children, the magazine for parents and order blank for trial subscription.
Parallel to a cycle: (for Rosmarie)
Keith Waldrop. Printed on white paper in reproduction of handwriting (or possibly actually handwriting) At head of title notice of a work edited and produced by Peter Hoy in Oxford, England; the long Welsh title begins: Llanfairpwllgwyn .... Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.
Parallel texts: two and three
Cover title. White paper printed and illustrated in black; stapled.
Parallel texts: one
steve mccaffery [and] bp nichol. Cover title. White paper printed and illustrated in black; stapled.
Pages [2,4] blank. First line: There is a city, builded by no hand.
Paradise
By Harriet Prescott Spofford. Poem in four twelve-line stanzas. At end of text: Newburyport, Mass. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Paradise
Paradise
by James Scully. Printed on buff paper. Colophon in lower left corner: Available Ziesing Brothers ... From Scrap book by James Scully. First line: There are no men, no women, there is human.
Parade of the peacocks
Page [4] blank. Tune: "Vilkins and Dinah."
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