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
Dear Laura, accept this lock I send
Printed on watermarked white paper within black border at edges. Title from first line. Poem in eight lines. Type-signed at end: Albany, N.Y., Sept., 1846. L. A. F. Shailer.
Dear lad o' mine: song with piano accompaniment
words by Katherine Hale ; music by Gena Branscombe. March for soprano or tenor and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Also published for alto or baritone and piano.
Dear friends and brother-sailors all
Poem, in six stanzas; an appeal for charity. At head of text: Tune, I would offer thee this hand of mine. Below text: Having known Anthony K. Simonds for a number of years ... [Printed signature:] Rev. Moses How. July 12, 1859. The needy sailor is sometimes identified as "Anthony K. Simmons." Cf. eds. of the similar broadside appeal with title: Pity the blind. Printed area: 23.1 x 8 cm. Printed within elaborate border of type ornaments on white paper; short rule separates tune title from text, long rule separates text from endorsement.
Dear Friend, The custom of sending memorial cards to friends upon the death of a relative
Broadsheet printed in one column on recto and three columns on verso. On recto letter offering memorial cards, with price list. On verso, headed: Be careful to send the number of the verses selected when ordering, 24 numbered sample verses, beginning with There is no death! an angel form (First line) Title from first lines of letter. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Folded vertically. Printed on tan paper. Stamplike cut of sitting rabbit captioned: White Rabbit in upper right corner of page [1] possible printer's mark. Includes letter from Spicer to Ferlinghetti concerning placing of Spicer's book in bookshop and Ferlinghetti's reply headed: City Lights Bookshop, dated 12 March, 1964, and with typed signature: Open Face; also includes advertisement for Spicer's The holy grail, and 13-line poem.
Dear father o'mine
Printed in brown. With decorated initial.
Dear conscious and "clothed eternity"
Title from first line.
Dear anyone: poems
"Illustration is from a snapshot of the author's father."
Dear anyone: poems
"Illustration is from a snapshot of the author's father."
Dear Alfred Charles Kinsey
Poetry. Peach-colored paper printed and illustrated in brown, light green, and red-brown. Below and at left of text illustration of insect on leaf. Type-signed at end: Richard Tagett 9/70.
Dean Stanley
Sonnet. At end of text: Wm. Pitt Palmer. New York, Dec. 1878.
Dead, did you say?
1 broadsheet.
Dead but not forgotten: to the memory of Miss Libbie White, who died February 17th, 1878, aged 20 years
Within mourning border.
Deacon Jones' experience
Bret Harte. Broadsheet. Cf. BAL 7276. At head of text: Arkansas Conference. 1874. Card with reproduction of A. M. Willard painting on recto, Harte's poem printed on verso.
Deacon Jones' experience
Bret Harte. Broadsheet. Cf. BAL 7276. At head of text: Arkansas Conference. 1874. Card with reproduction of A. M. Willard painting on recto, Harte's poem printed on verso.
Deacon Giles' distillery
At head of text four engravings with captions by Miles St. John; text printed in 5 columns beneath. At head of text: From the Salem Landmark. "Inquire at Amos Giles' Distillery" At end of text: Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1835, by Miles St. John .. Title of above is also: The dream. Cf. [Cheever, G.B.]: The dream: or the true history of Deacon Giles' distillery, and Deacon Jones' brewery. (76/C5155d/1848) The piece appeared originally in the Landmark, vol. 1, no. 46, Salem, Mass., 1835.
Dea, Jonathan Loring
Within double line border.
Dea, Jonathan Loring
Within double line border.
De United States Hotel
by One of de boardahs. Music by M.G. Bisbee.
De skeeters do bite
words by Marshall S. Pike ; arranged by L.V.H. Crosby. For voice and piano. Caption title. Cover illustration: lithograph of the Harmoneons, with portraits of Js. Power as Toney, M.S. Pike as Fanny, L.V.H. Crosby as Pomp, F. Lynch as Gumbo, and Jno. [sic] Power as Sambo / W. Sharp. "W. Sharp & Co. litho."--Cover.
De nativitate Domini
Notkerus Balbulus. Page [4] blank. On page [1] reproduction of photograph of house. Latin poem and English translation on opposite pages.
De history ob de world
arranged for the piano forte by T. Contreso. For voice and piano. Caption title. Sung by William Parker in the popular extravaganza of the Buffalo Gals at the Adelphi. Additional verses: p. 3.
De Day of No Mo, Rites and Reason Theatre
The opening scene where the souls dance around in gauzy shrouds. The opening scene where the souls dance around in gauzy shrouds. De Day of No Mo, Rites and Reason Theatre, University Archives Subject Photographs, 1-Q, Brown University Library 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/)
De darkie's rally: song & chorus
Cover illustration: lithograph of African American men with sign "Colored recruts wanted" For voice and piano Caption title "T. Sinclair's lith, Phila"--Cover
De color'd fancy ball
For men's voices (TTB) and piano. Caption title. "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1847 by Firth & Hall..."--Cover. Additional verse printed on p. 6. Series titles 1-18 listed on cover. Cover illustration: lithograph of the Ethiopian Serenaders in concert, labelled with names, Pell, Harrington, White, Stanwood, and Germon.
Dawn honey
Contains text of Oratorium.
David B. Hill and the A.P.A
Campaign song attacks Hill, Tammany Hall and Roman Catholics; Hill was a Democratic candidate for the presidential nomination. Campaign song attacks Hill, Tammany Hall and Roman Catholics; Hill was a Democratic candidate for the presidential nomination. By E.A.W. Printed in two columns. Text of song in eight six-line stanzas.
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