At Christmas
Brown University
M. A. DeW. H. At left and right of text drawings of hanging bunch of mistletoe. Poem.
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
At Château Thierry
Brown University
At camp-fire
Brown University
Cover title, within rectangular decorative border. A poem about the Civil War. At end of text: Ellen Shepard Dwinnell. Page [4] blank. Collected, with some textual, changes, in her: Verses. 1912. First line: Let us kindle our camp-fires, my comrades in blue. May have been published by the author in her home town, Fitchburg, Mass.
At camp-fire
Brown University
Cover title, within rectangular decorative border. A poem about the Civil War. At end of text: Ellen Shepard Dwinnell. Page [4] blank. Collected, with some textual, changes, in her: Verses. 1912. First line: Let us kindle our camp-fires, my comrades in blue. May have been published by the author in her home town, Fitchburg, Mass.
At camp-fire
Brown University
Cover title, within rectangular decorative border. A poem about the Civil War. At end of text: Ellen Shepard Dwinnell. Page [4] blank. Collected, with some textual, changes, in her: Verses. 1912. First line: Let us kindle our camp-fires, my comrades in blue. May have been published by the author in her home town, Fitchburg, Mass.
At camp-fire
Brown University
Cover title, within rectangular decorative border. A poem about the Civil War. At end of text: Ellen Shepard Dwinnell. Page [4] blank. Collected, with some textual, changes, in her: Verses. 1912. First line: Let us kindle our camp-fires, my comrades in blue. May have been published by the author in her home town, Fitchburg, Mass.
At camp-fire
Brown University
Cover title, within rectangular decorative border. A poem about the Civil War. At end of text: Ellen Shepard Dwinnell. Page [4] blank. Collected, with some textual, changes, in her: Verses. 1912. First line: Let us kindle our camp-fires, my comrades in blue. May have been published by the author in her home town, Fitchburg, Mass.
At camp-fire
Brown University
Cover title, within rectangular decorative border. A poem about the Civil War. At end of text: Ellen Shepard Dwinnell. Page [4] blank. Collected, with some textual, changes, in her: Verses. 1912. First line: Let us kindle our camp-fires, my comrades in blue. May have been published by the author in her home town, Fitchburg, Mass.
At a social gathering at the house of Rev. Dr. Child, on Wednesday evening, Jan. 7, Mr. T.P. Woodman being called upon for a speech, spoke as follows
Brown University
Printed in two columns divided by double lines within border of type ornament sections. Poem in six stanzas of varying length. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
At a social gathering at the house of Rev. Dr. Child, on Wednesday evening, Jan. 7, Mr. T.P. Woodman being called upon for a speech, spoke as follows
Brown University
Printed in two columns divided by double lines within border of type ornament sections. Poem in six stanzas of varying length. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
At a social gathering at the house of Rev. Dr. Child, on Wednesday evening, Jan. 7, Mr. T.P. Woodman being called upon for a speech, spoke as follows
Brown University
Printed in two columns divided by double lines within border of type ornament sections. Poem in six stanzas of varying length. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
At 21
Brown University
Euna Russell Mignault. Printed on heavy textured white paper. Poem in12 lines. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Assurance
Brown University
Verso includes two wedding announcements
Assurance
Brown University
Verso includes two wedding announcements
Assurance
Brown University
Verso includes two wedding announcements
Asquamchumauk-e
Brown University
John Foster, the Manchester poet. At end of text: (From The Mirror and American, [Manchester, N.H.] July 18, 1913)
Aspiration
Brown University
Printed on yellow paper.
Aspiration
Brown University
Printed on yellow paper.
Asper's raid
Brown University
Asa George Baker
Brown University
Eighteen-line poem. At end of text: By William Kimberley Palmer Chicopee, Massachusetts U.S.A. Suggested publication date from author's inscription on Brown University copy.
As though time: everyone has a destiny
Brown University
Printed on wheat-colored paper in different sizes of type. Small vignette of skull at right of text. Place of publication and publisher information from donor.
As there might be a meadow fair to view
Brown University
Title from first line. With red line border.
As the best of spool cotton you may desire to buy
Brown University
Broadsheet. Title from first line. Advertising card with colored illustration of man in Japanese costume labelled Koko at head of text. On verso, printed in blue, cut of spool of thread and advertising text. Parody of song from The Mikado advertising J. & P. Coats thread. Date from internal evidence; The Mikado first produced in 1885.
As our president comes sailing home: as our boys come sailing home
Brown University
words by Edith Rojean Orne ; music by George Lowell Tracy. For voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: ship at sea and peace dove / E.S. Fisher. Accompanied by publisher's flyer with supplementary "Victory Liberty Loan" chorus.
As our day shall our strength be
Brown University
1 broadsheet. Title from first line.
As one sees the Minnehaha
Brown University
Printed in colors on heavy glossy white paper in postcard format; text in red. At head of title reproduction of color photograph of river, captioned: Minnehaha glenn. Title from first line. Four lines of verse. Author's name not on item. "No. 2." Suggested publication date from postmark on Brown University copy.
As many times as the Frankenstein monster
Brown University
Printed in sepia on tan paper in two columns; on left poem, on right announcement of The peter poems and other disgraces by Joseph Semenovich, beginning "Do you recognize peter?" Title from first two lines in first column. Suggested date from publication date of book.
As Joe sat on the ground
Brown University
Title from first line. Colored illustration of policeman chasing dog. Advertisement for Libby, McNeill & Libby's Cooked Corned Beef. Date from internal evidence.
As Irishmen we're martyrs
Brown University
Within border of green type ornaments. At head of text: Duet. Respectfully dedicated to Joseph Taylor.
As in the story of childhood's day
Brown University
Title from first line. At end of text: E.L.W.