On the cross
Brown University
1 broadsheet.
Performance and Entertainment
Digital collections that fall within the John Hay Library’s Performance and Entertainment STRATEGIC COLLECTING DIRECTION. Here you will find digitized materials that document the history and creative process of performing arts and provides a window into public life and popular entertainment in the Americas through plays, dance, film, music, photography, and pornography.
This collection is part of Brown University Library, hosted by Brown University.
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
On the cross
Brown University
1 broadsheet.
Poem describes fire and sinking of steamboat and blames owners for stowing cotton on deck. Poem describes fire and sinking of steamboat and blames owners for stowing cotton on deck. Printed in two columns. At head of title wood-engraving of steamboat with paddle-wheel inscribed: Lexington. Poem in 14 four-line stanzas. At end of text below rule: Stereotyped, printed, and sold at No. 71 Greenwich Lane, between Perry and Hammond Streets.
On the border of no man's land
Brown University
Within line border printed in three columns. At end of text: Compliments of author and the (Wilmington, Del.) Evening Journal. Illustration by D. Palmer.
On the border of no man's land
Brown University
Within line border printed in three columns. At end of text: Compliments of author and the (Wilmington, Del.) Evening Journal. Illustration by D. Palmer.
On the border of no man's land
Brown University
Within line border printed in three columns. At end of text: Compliments of author and the (Wilmington, Del.) Evening Journal. Illustration by D. Palmer.
On the book called Unitarian Theology
Brown University
Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments; at end in second column vignette. In lower margin below text: Printed by N. Coverly, No. 16 Milk-Street, Boston. Publication date from Shaw/Shoemaker.
On the beach at night
Brown University
Printed in reddish-brown on heavy peach paper. At head of text cut of man and little girl on beach. Type-signed at end of poem: Walt Whitman. Colophon on page [4]: Printed by Rand Avery-Gordon Taylor, Inc. successors to George C. Rand & Avery printers of the 1860-61 edition of Leaves of grass.
On the battlefield of France
Brown University
On the banks of the Wabash
Brown University
On the assassination of President Kennedy
Brown University
Offprint from Queen's Quarterly, Winter, 1964, LXX, No. 4.
On the alert
Brown University
On the alchemical construction of choice
Brown University
Harvey Albert. Broadsheet printed on white paper. Poem in 20 three-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of poem: Harvey Albert. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
On the alchemical construction of choice
Brown University
Harvey Albert. Broadsheet printed on white paper. Poem in 20 three-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of poem: Harvey Albert. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
On the alchemical construction of choice
Brown University
Harvey Albert. Broadsheet printed on white paper. Poem in 20 three-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of poem: Harvey Albert. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
On Sunday, the seventeenth of November, 1878, occurred the ninetieth anniversary of the birth of our venerable townsman, Joseph Grinnell
Brown University
Prose and poetry. Includes prose account of birthday ceremonies, text of address by Grinnell, and text of note from R.S.H. accompanying the cake.
On Sunday, the seventeenth of November, 1878, occurred the ninetieth anniversary of the birth of our venerable townsman, Joseph Grinnell
Brown University
Prose and poetry. Includes prose account of birthday ceremonies, text of address by Grinnell, and text of note from R.S.H. accompanying the cake.
On seeing William Wordsworth's sandwich box at the Dove Cottage Museum, Grasmere, July 1, 1970
Brown University
Chisholm Quince. Text on pages [2] and [3] to be read unfolded. On page [1] title surrounded by cut of vines, with winged baby Cupid below with inscription, "Et in Arcadia id." Headpiece on page [2] with face between two babies, imitating sculpture; tailpiece on page [3] with face. Cover title. Poem in 19 lines with facsimile signature, "Chisholm Quince."
On seeing Birch Forest - a painting by Marjorie Pigott
Brown University
French fold; printed on double leaves. Christmas card. On cover: Christmas greetings.
On seeing Birch Forest - a painting by Marjorie Pigott
Brown University
French fold; printed on double leaves. Christmas card. On cover: Christmas greetings.
On reading the early poems of Robert Duncan
Brown University
Prose and poetry. Advertisement for "The years as catches," by Robert Duncan (1966) At end of text, above portrait of Duncan: Denise Levertov, August 1966, Temple, Maine. Printed on cream paper.
On presenting the volumes of the Game Club Verses to the Massachusetts Historical Society
Brown University
Page [4] blank. On page [3]: Initials (in alphabetical order) found in the printed volumes of the game Club.
On patrol in no man's land
Brown University
James Reese Europe, Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: musical instruments; photographs of James Reese Europe and the 369th U.S. Infantry "Hell Fighters" Band.
On our way: we're going somewhere
Brown University
words by Cordelia Brooks Fenno ; music by Francis Ames. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Cover illustration: drawing of men boarding a ship / E. W. Browne.
On our return
Brown University
Printed in two columns. Poem in 18 four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
On mother's and father's anniversary
Brown University
1 broadsheet.
On moonshiny night, to Miss-----
Brown University
Portrait with facsimile autograph and caption: The Long Island Farmer Poet at head of title. Printed in two columns. At end of text: Bloodgood H. Cutter, Little Neck, L.I., 1890.
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On L[incol]n's proclamation of April 1st, 1863
Brown University
At end of text: By a Marylander.
Pages [1, 3-4] blank.