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
Victory anthem: or, Allies victory anthem
At head of text: Dedicated to the victorious fighting men.
Victory
Cover title. Page [4] blank. Printed in blue on white cardstock. Illustration of statue "Winged Victory of Samothrace" below title on page [1]
Victory
Cover title. Page [4] blank. Printed in blue on white cardstock. Illustration of statue "Winged Victory of Samothrace" below title on page [1]
Victory
words & music by Nicholas Colangelo. March for voice and piano. Caption title. "Dedicated to the Heroes of the Allies." Cover illustration: soldiers marching behind color guard / E.H. Pfeiffer.
Victory
words by Jack Wilson & Ben Bard ; music by M.K. Jerome. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Dedicated to: Miss Ray C. Sawyer. Advertisement for "Mammy's chocolate soldier": p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of a U.S. marine holding a rifle and a U.S. marine flag / Alvan C. Hadley.
Victory
Cover title. Page [4] blank. Printed in blue on white cardstock. Illustration of statue "Winged Victory of Samothrace" below title on page [1]
Victory
Printed in two columns. At end of text: M.E. Codman, September 26, 1914, Klein Laufenkery.
Veterans of the Great World War
[words by] Tom Twohig ; arranged by Joe Solmon. For voice and piano. Caption title. Music by Sam Habelow; words by Tom Twohig. Cover illustration: a soldier, a sailor, and silhouette of soldiers charging.
Veteran's war song: To our brave and noble-hearted lads
Within border of type ornaments, printed on beige paper. Poetry and prose. At end of text: From the old home gate, Joseph Blakoe, 54 McGill St.
Vestigia
Page [2] blank. Title on page [3] On page [1] at head of text reproduction of photograph by M. Gibbon of man on hilltop looking out over landscape. Text on page [1] begins: The place of vision used by the Indians in the old days and ends: Lake Windermere in the distance. Bliss Carman. Photograph by Murray Gibbon. On page [3] poem in five five-line stanzas, type-signed: Bliss Carman. On page [4]: From Mitchell Kennerley, Christmas, 1922.
Very well I thank you
At end of text: Gertrude Stein, Belignin, 1939. An announcement of the engagement of Louise Antoinette Krause and Robert Bartlett Haas, whose names are printed on the verso. Poem mentions Louise and Bobolink as engaged couple. Printed on blue paper.
Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. Poem in 13 numbered four-line stanzas. Suggeted range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Printed in three columns. At left of title cut of hanging man; at right of title cut of two coffins, of which the smaller is inscribed: Mrs. S.Y. Original dimensions not known. Poem in 30 four-line stanzas. Suggested publication date from internal evidence.
Verses, on Commodore Preble's engagement with the Tripolitans
By Capt. Daniel Eldridge. Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments; border of type ornaments at top and bottom. Printed area measures: 28.1 x 14.2 cm. Poem in twenty numbered four-line stanzas. Not in Shaw and Shoemaker.
Verses, appropriate on the occasion of the dedication of the Ladd and Whitney Monument: at Lowell, on Saturday, June 17th, 1865
Celebrates monument to Massachusetts soldiers killed in the Baltimore riot Apr. 19, 1861. Celebrates monument to Massachusetts soldiers killed in the Baltimore riot Apr. 19, 1861. Text within ornamental border, printed in two columns divided by double line. Cut of monument at head of first column. At head of text: Composer, George G.B. DeWolfe, W.P. To be sung to the tune: Sword of Bunker Hill. Poem in eight eight-line stanzas.
Verses written on the occasion of the holdng [i.e. holding] of the twelfth annual agricultural fair, of the N.H. State Agricultural Society
Within ornamental border with illustration in upper center.
Verses written on the Ancient Order of Hibernians of America
by John M'Intyre, Holyoke, Mass. Within triple line border.
Verses to Isaac Pugh. On his eighty-second birthday, Oct. 24, 1881
Verses to Isaac Pugh. On his eighty-second birthday, Oct. 24, 1881
Verses to Isaac Pugh. On his eighty-second birthday, Oct. 24, 1881
Verses sung at the antique wedding!: January 3, 1855, by the relatives of the happy couple
Printed on yellow paper. Text of song in nine six-line stanzas.
Within border of type ornaments, printed in one and three columns. At head of text prose introduction, signed G.A.W., beginning: In the transmission of a knowledge of many of the incidents ..
Printed within ornamental border.
Verses on the wreck of the Titanic
Within mourning border. Poem in ten four-line stanzas. At end of text within border: Composed and sold by Arthur E. Belyea. Suggested publication date from date of shipwreck.
Verses on the uncertainty of life, and the certainty of death: found among the papers of an old Gentleman who died very suddenly in Cornish
Poetry in twenty-four four-line stanzas printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. Printed area measures: 24.7 x 15.6 cm. Place of publication suggested by notation on broadside; type face and type ornaments suggest late 18th or very early 19th century publication. Not in Evans or Bristol.
Verses on the uncertainty of life and certainty of death
by David Spaulding--late of Chelmsford, deceased. Printed in two columns. Original dimensions unknown. Printed area measures: 23.4 x 14.7 cm. Not in Ford, Bristol or Checklist of Amer. imprints to 1829. Suggested publication date from internal evidence; type face suggests a late 18th or early 19th century date. Another edition of poem (Brown University copy HB14478) is attributed to "an old gentleman who died very suddenly in Cornish."
Verses of the campaign
Poem in two stanzas. Type-signed at end: Tony Hagemann, Composer. No. 1 Washington Place, Chicago, October 30, 1908.
Verses for ribbon bolts or valentines
Verses dedicated to a generous public
Composed by Mr. Austin J. Kyte. Printed in three and four columns divided by double lines. At center portrait in ornamental frame captioned: Austin J. Kyte. Above portrait prose account of Kyte's accident headed: Read and reflect. Author statement in full at end of text below double rule: Composed by Mr. Austin J. Kyte, the handless vender of poems, Girardville, Schuylkill Co., Pa., late of Philadelphia, Pa. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence; Kyte's accident occurred in 1878.
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