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
A Penny-worth of wit. Or, The merchant reclaimed
Printed in two columns; headband of type ornaments on page [1] Caption title. Poem in three parts and 63 four-line stanzas. Third verse of pt. 1 mentions a William Lane. The use of laid paper and the presence of the "long s" suggest an 18th century date of publication.
A penny for your thought?
Poetry printed in terracotta on beige laid paper. Cover title. Typesigned at end of poem on page [3]: C.W.B. Colophon on page [4]: Copyrighted 1915 by C.W. Birrell.
A patriotic song
by Rev. Benjamin Danforth, Providence, R.I. Poetry. Within border of type ornaments, printed in three columns divided by rules; in red and blue. Date approximation because of events mentioned in poem.
A patriot creed: I believe
Printed in red and black. Poetry, listing five believes, beginning with: The moral order [First line: In God and the might of right]
A pastor's soliloquy
Within ornamental border. At head of text: Dedicated to Rev. Bert J. Glazier on laying down his charge at Massena, New York April 6, 1930. First line: 'Tis done; my last work is finished.
A pastor's soliloquy
Within ornamental border. At head of text: Dedicated to Rev. Bert J. Glazier on laying down his charge at Massena, New York April 6, 1930. First line: 'Tis done; my last work is finished.
A pastor's farewell to his flock
Printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line. To be sung to the tune: Milan. Text of hymn in six numbered eight-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
A parting hymn
A parody on The old oaken bucket: an anti-Maine-law lyric
by Miles O'Reilly (General Halpine) 1829-1868. Printed in green on heavy gray paper within ornamental border. Poem in two ten-line stanzas and one eight-line stanza.
A parody on the lament of the Irish emigrant
Within border of type ornaments. At head of text: Composed by Elder J. Adams, while traveling on Martha's Vineyard, from North Shore to Edgartown and sent to Sarah Adams, his wife, at New Haven, Conn., Feb. 16, 1846.
A parody on The lament of the Irish emigrant
composed by Elder J. Adams. Within border of type ornament sections. Printed area measures: 19.9 x 11.9 cm. At head of text: While travelling on Martha's Vineyard, from North Shore to Edgartown, and sent to Sarah Adams, his wife, at New Haven, Conn., Feb. 16, 1846. Poem in five four-line sections. Printed on single sheet with The lament of the Irish emigrant, each in own border; possibly intended to be separated.
A parody on Dearest Mother (an old English song)
A paradoxical memoir on the Raymond Hotel
At head of title: Extract from Pasadena Star, May 13, 1887. At head of text: By a guest and respectfully dedicated to Walter Raymond .. At end of text: South Pasadena, Cal., April 30, 1887.
A parade on misfortune
Within ornamental border.
A package of seeds
A package of seeds
A pack of cards
Within border of type ornaments.
A One Table Bridge Set
A nocturn
1 broadsheet.
A Nobscusset legend
A night thought
Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. Wood-engraving of parents and two kneeling children at head of text in first column. Poem in 22 numbered four-line stanzas. Suggested place of publication and range of publication dates from internal evidence and because Brown University item backed by newspaper clippings from Massachusetts dated 1814.
A night in the trenches
A night in Gethsemane
Processed copy, photostat.
A niche in my heart
A New-Year's Wish, from the Farrier's Lad
Verse in three stanzas, bordered by single line at top and bottom. At end of text: Boston, January 1769. Printed from the same setting of type as a New-Year's wish, from the baker's lad (Bristol B3053), with changes in title and text in the last three lines. Dated: Boston, January 1769. Presumably printed late in 1768 for distribution on or about New Year's Day. First line: The New-born year now dawns again.
A New-Year's piece
Line of type ornaments (four-petaled flowers; variant Reilly 494) at head and end of text. Type ornament: variant of Reilly 494.
A new year's symphony
by Miss Caroline Smith. Printed in two columns divided by double line. Poem in 30 four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
A New Year's address to the citizens of Lynn
Describes modern fashions and manners, then deplores Crimean War and urges readers to patronize author's grocery stores, for cash. Describes modern fashions and manners, then deplores Crimean War and urges readers to patronize author's grocery stores, for cash. Printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line within border of type ornament sections. Type-signed at end of poem: George H. Harwood, corner of Union & Silsbee Sts., and 101 & 103 North Common St. Lynn, Jan. 1, 1855. Colophon below rule within lower border: N.H. Nichols, Printer, No. 12 Healey's Arcade, Lynn. Brown University copy has ms. poem "Ocean burial" by E.H. Chapin on verso.
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