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
United States International Exhibition. Philadelphia. Opening May 10th, closing Nov. 10, 1876. Complimentary
Ticket. Pages [2,4] blank. On cover: Cut of Columbia, seated with eagle. Made out to Hon. Saml. S. Cox, U.S. House of Representatives. With program. Contains plan of exhibition and list of assignment of seats on the platform. Program lists "Hymn by Whittier" and "Cantata by Sidney Lanier."
United States agricultural fair
By William Withington. Illustration of woman gathering wheat at head of text. Poem in 12 four-line stanzas. Place of publication suggested because of references to "our state" as the Bay State and to Boston as site of fair. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Printed in two columns, one song to each, divided by curvilinear line; line of type ornaments at top and bottom. Text of two songs, one in eight eight-line stanzas and one in seven, each with two-line chorus. No author's name on item but ascribed to P. Russell.
United Nations flag
United nations
by George Freeland Jefferson. Text of song in two four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Listen to the bugle call.
United nations
by George Freeland Jefferson. Text of song in two four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Listen to the bugle call.
United nations
by George Freeland Jefferson. Text of song in two four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Listen to the bugle call.
United Fronts are what we love
Tune: Them bones shall rise again Mimeographed
United Fronts are what we love
Tune: Them bones shall rise again. Mimeographed.
Program includes words of three hymns. Program includes words of three hymns. Within triple line border with corner ornaments. At end of text on page [1] within lower border: S. Chism, Franklin Printing House, corner Franklin & Hawley Sts.
United America
At end of text: Words by T.F. Leavy & P.J. Devine.
Within single-line border with ornamental corners on page [1], single-line borders with ornamental corners on pages [2]-[4] Includes text of five hymns and carols, beginning with How sweet to gather side by side.
Within single-line borders with ornamental corners on all pages. Includes text of five hymns, beginning with Welcome, welcome.
Unitarian Convention soiree: order of exercises, October 11, 1854
Cover title. Includes text of hymns.
Unitarian belief
Within ornamental border.
Unique art cards
1 broadsheet. Broadsheet printed on card stock. On recto colored illustration of little girl in peasant costume with caption: From Denisons, Westerly, R.I. Poem on verso advertises art cards for collectors. Publication date approximation because R.I. directories give E.N. Denison & Co. as jeweler in Westerly from 1873 to 1913.
Union Thanksgiving service, Town Hall, Ware: Thursday, Nov. 29, '94
Cover title. Text of four hymns.
Union prisoners from Dixie's sunny land
Song tells of hardships of Union soldiers robbed, starved and without shelter in southern prison camp, but ready for vengeance after parole and exchange. Song tells of hardships of Union soldiers robbed, starved and without shelter in southern prison camp, but ready for vengeance after parole and exchange. Printed on yellow paper. At head of title vignette of American eagle holding furled American flag, captioned: Let the eagle scream. To be sung to the tune: Twenty years ago. Text of song in eight four-line stanzas. Not in Wolf, Amer. song sheets.
Union picnic of the Methodist Episcopal Sunday schools, of New Bedford: at Myrick's Grove, Saturday, Sept. 8, 1866
Printed in two columns divided by single line within border of type ornament sections. Program includes text of four hymns.
Printed in two columns; at head and end of text decorative type ornaments.
Union forever! & the birth-day of freedom!: or, The Fourth of July
Poem celebrating Independence Day; advertisement for his business of tracing American heirs of unclaimed estates in Great Britain. At head of text: A patriotic song written as an expression of respect and good will for his adopted country... At end of text: Proclamation! Blow! blow thy trumpet mighty Fame. Vignette of American eagle at head of title.
Union centennial service of the Baptist, Congregational and Methodist Sunday Schools: at the First Baptist Church, Beverly, on Sunday, July 23, 1876
Broadsheet folded to create [6] pages. Within red and blue double-line border. Above title vignette of American eagle perched on shield, above motto: In God we trust and seven-line stanza beginning: "God bless our native land! At end of text within brackets: This exercise, with the original music, may be found in the "Centennial number of the Sunday School Times," June 17th.
Head shot of unidentified woman, No. 4, and Other (possibly sister, African American vaudeville performers: Hair gathered up; in formal attire (strapless gowns, earings); Chicago, Ill.; circa 1915-1925. Head shot of unidentified woman, No. 4, and Other (possibly sister, African American vaudeville performers: Hair gathered up; in formal attire (strapless gowns, earings); Chicago, Ill.; circa 1915-1925. Digital object made available by : Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)
Unidentified woman no. 4 (Celebrity, photograph 2)
Head shot of unidentified woman, no. 4, African American vaudeville performer: right side facing; hair ungathered; leaning against chair; Chicago, Ill.; circa 1915-1925. Head shot of unidentified woman, no. 4, African American vaudeville performer: right side facing; hair ungathered; leaning against chair; Chicago, Ill.; circa 1915-1925. Digital object made available by : Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)
Unidentified woman no. 4 (Celebrity, photograph 1)
Head shot of unidentified woman, no. 4, African American vaudeville performer: Hair gathered up; in formal attire (strapless gown, and earings); Chicago, Ill.; circa 1915-1925. Head shot of unidentified woman, no. 4, African American vaudeville performer: Hair gathered up; in formal attire (strapless gown, and earings); Chicago, Ill.; circa 1915-1925. Digital object made available by : Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)
Unidentified woman no. 3 (Bushnell, photograph 5)
Three-quarter length of unidentified woman no. 3, African American vaudeville performer (female): Standing; front facing with left arm resting against ornately carved bench; hair gathered up; in formal attire (dark, fitted jacket with velvet collar, blouse with cuffed sleeves, and feathered hat); San Francisco, Calif.; circa 1915-1925. Three-quarter length of unidentified woman no. 3, African American vaudeville performer (female): Standing; front facing with left arm resting against ornately carved bench; hair gathered up; in formal attire (dark, fitted jacket with velvet collar, blouse with cuffed sleeves, and feathered hat); San Francisco, Calif.; circa 1915-1925. Digital object made available by : Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)
Unidentified man no.5
Head shot of unidentified man, no. 5, African American vaudeville performer: Exagerated facial expression (eyes wide open, puffed cheeks); in formal attire (suit jacket, white shirt, and tie); [place of photo unidentified]; undated Head shot of unidentified man, no. 5, African American vaudeville performer: Exagerated facial expression (eyes wide open, puffed cheeks); in formal attire (suit jacket, white shirt, and tie); [place of photo unidentified]; undated Digital object made available by : Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)
Photomontage of unidentified man no. 8 and unidentified woman no. 7: Various shots, poses and outfits (formal attire); Des Moines, Ia.; undated Photomontage of unidentified man no. 8 and unidentified woman no. 7: Various shots, poses and outfits (formal attire); Des Moines, Ia.; undated Digital object made available by : Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)
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