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
In Boston city there lived a maid
Within ornamental border. First line same as title. Five songs beginning with: In Boston city there lived a maid (First line)
In Bethlehem was born a babe. He saw
On handmade paper with deckled edges. Manuscript poem in two three-line stanzas. Title from first line. At end of text drawing in colored pencil of Nativity scene initialed in lower right corner E.C.S.[?] Brown University copy signed Beatrice; other similar poems from 1940s at Brown signed Beatrice on verso and B. N. on recto. B. N. lived in Massachusetts in the 1940s. Artist may be E. C. Spiero[?] who illustrated Nowell! God sends the mantled snow, by B. N. (Brown University copy HB33346 MA) Date from notation on Brown University copy.
In beautiful Montpelier
Edith Flint Keeler. French-fold; printed on double page in white on dark blue ground on white paper. On page [1] uncaptioned illustration of Vermont State House, signed: P.H. Thomas, 1934. Title from first line of poem in five lines on page [3] On page [2] prose information about State House.
In an old house beneath o'erhanging trees
Printed in in sepia calligraphy on tan card stock. Reproduction of photograph of entrance hall of house at left of poem. Title from first line. Poem in two four-line stanzas. At end of text: Eugene and Willie Murphey, Augusta, Georgia, 1936.
In affectionate and reverent remembrance of Isaac Pugh: born October 24, 1799, died October 23, 1882
Printed on heavy paper. Eight-line poem.
In a pout
Printed on greenish paper. Poem in four eight-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
In a motel on Lake Erie
James Tate. Printed on heavy blue-gray paper in postcard format. Poem.
In a klein shtiebele
In a country without a chance
Issued in postcard format. Illustration of U.S. flag in each. Within border with corner. At end of text below short single line: Copyrighted 1916. Published by Max K. Walker, El Paso, Texas.
In a country without a chance
Issued in postcard format. Illustration of U.S. flag in each. Within border with corner. At end of text below short single line: Copyrighted 1916. Published by Max K. Walker, El Paso, Texas.
In a country without a chance
Issued in postcard format. Illustration of U.S. flag in each. Within border with corner. At end of text below short single line: Copyrighted 1916. Published by Max K. Walker, El Paso, Texas.
In a college classroom
Printed on double leaves. Printed on blue paper. Colophon at end on p. [4]: Bread Loaf Folder / Bread Loaf School of English / Middlebury, Vermont. First line: Dear, stranger souls who for an hour.
In 100 yohr arim
In 100 yohr arim
Improvement of time
Within border of type ornament sections. Text at head of title continues: Granted to [blank] for diligence and attention to study, and good behaviour in school. [blank] Poem in two four-line stanzas. Colophon: Sold by N.S. Simpkins & Co. Court street, Boston. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Impromptu lines composed at a clam bake and dinner in the grove of Waldemere, the country seat of P.T. Barnum, at Bridgeport, Conn: July 4th, 1871
Within double line border with corner ornaments. Poem in nine four-line stanzas.
Important state paper: "Extension."
Poetry and prose. To be sung to the tune: Jordan is a hard road to travel. Printed in two columns divided by a single line within border of type ornaments. Printed area: 27.1 x 20.2 cm. Humorous poem in twelve four-line stanzas. Date from general appearance of type and border. At head of text: Being a piece of the State Liquor Agency, which was blown by the late disastrous explosion into the State House, and from thence transferred to the Suffolk Jail .... Respectfully dedicated to the Massachusetts House of Representatives... First line: 'Tis conceded by all--and of course must be true.
Advertises "one price fashionable clothing store" at nos. 27 and 29 Weybosset Street, Providence. Advertises "one price fashionable clothing store" at nos. 27 and 29 Weybosset Street, Providence. Title from first lines. Type-signed at end: H.A. Prescott. Providence, October, 1859.
Imperium in imperio
Poem predicts warm welcome from Canadians to "Louisa and the Lord of Lorne." Poem predicts warm welcome from Canadians to "Louisa and the Lord of Lorne." Pages [2] and [4] blank. Poem in six eight-line stanzas. Author's name not printed on item. Suggested publication date because poem was first published in 1878 when Princess Louise's husband became governor general of Canada.
Immortality: (suggested by Tennyson's "Crossing the bar")
Within single-line border with ornamental corners. At end of text: M.E.T. January 7, 1895.
Immortal Lucretia Mott
Fourteen-line poem. Type-signed at end of text: William Kimberley Palmer. Chicopee, Massachusetts U.S.A. August 1937.
Immortal Jan Ignace Paderewski
Poem in three stanzas of different length. At end of poem: Dedicated to Col. Edward Mandell House, the friend of Poland, by William Kimberley Palmer. Chicopee, Massachusetts U.S.A. March 1934, A.D.
Immortal France
Immortal France
Immortal France
Immortal
At end of text: A.J.B.
Immortal
At end of text: A.J.B.
Immortal
At end of text: A.J.B.
Immigration hymn
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