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 New Year resolution
by T. W. Bellingham. Title printed between two lines of type ornaments. Printed in red and green. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
A new thought on time and eternity, or, the difference between to day and to morrow
Printed in one and two columns within border of type ornaments; two column section divided by line of type ornaments. At head of text: An invitation to Youth for a New Year.
A new song: To the tune of the British grenadier
Poetry in 12 four-line stanzas. Headband of 18th century type ornaments at top and bottom. This edition not in Bristol or Wegelin. This song appears, with title "War and Washington; A song composed at the beginning of the American Revolution," in Sewall's Miscellaneous poems ... (Portsmouth, N.H., 1801), p. 52-53.
A new song: Composed in Buenos Ayres
by a wounded sailor. Within ornamental border.
A new song, called the Hopkinton dandies
Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments (barber pole)
A new song written by a soldier
At left of title cut of American Eagle At end of text below line of type ornaments: Printed by Nathaniel Coverly, Jun.--Milk-Street
A new song on the death of George Shiffler
by a native American. Poetry in 8 four-line stanzas. Tune: Old lang syne. Within border of type ornaments. At end of text: For sale wholesale and retail by H.B. Pierson, at the cheap Book Store No. 389 South Second St. above Catherine. - And at H. Probasco's No. 119 North Fourth St.
A new song on the causes: beginning, events-- end & consequences of the late war with Great Britain
Composed by Silas Ballou, Richmond, New-Hampshire. Tune: The girl I left behind. Printed in three columns divided by curvelinear lines. Woodcut of United States emblem at left of title. Title also given as: History of the American War, and Old England forty years ago. At end of text in lower margins: Printed by Nathaniel Coverly, jun. Milk Street, Boston. Coverly is known to have been at above address from 1810 to 1824.
A New song
Poetry. Printed in two columns, one poem to each. At head of second column wood-engraving of three pigeons. Printed area: 19.2 x 14 cm. Not in Shaw & Shoemaker, Shipton & Mooney, or Ford, W. C. Broadsides. First line: I am a young squire. First line of second poem: A bachelor leads an easy life.
A new poem from Robert Burns
Printed on mauve laid watermarked paper within single-line border with corner ornaments. Poem in four eight-line stanzas imitating Burns' A man's a man for a' that. Type-signed at end of poem: T. L. Harris. At end of text below lower border: John Thomson, 39 John Street, Glasgow. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
A new little girl in heaven
Poetry in five eight-line stanzas.
A new darky ditty in Louisiana: from a Sunday paper
Broadsheet. At head of title on recto wood-engraving of man (identified in poem as "Bob Ing'soll") dancing on hot griddle in presence of devil. Twelve-line poem. Advertisement for J.F. McKenney, sewing machine seller in Baltimore and Washington on verso, entitled: The difference and beginning: There may be a difference about "Bob" Ingersoll's religion. Publication date from notation on Brown University copy.
A national medley: arranged by James Wheeler for his juvenile classes at Swampscott
Within border of type ornaments.
"To his excellency Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States"--Cover
By L. Griffing. Printed in two columns divided by double line within border of type ornament sections. At head of title wood-engraving of dying man and three male and four female attendants captioned: Death-bed scene of Gen. Wm. H. Harrison. To be sung to the tune: China. Text of hymn in six numbered four-line stanzas.
A national hymn
Tune: America.
A nation's tribute
R. Deats, illustrator.
Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by heavy black line within mourning border with coffin at each side of title. First line: Good people all pray lend an ear.
Within mourning border with coffins at head. First line: Ho! all ye dying sons of men.
Poetry. Printed area measures: 40.8 x 51.3 cm. Sheet contains three poems, each within mourning border and printed in two columns divided by heavy rules, with coffins at head. Printed area of first poem measures: 39.5 x 14.6 cm. First poem is in 40 stanzas. Author's name not on item but printed on separate broadside editions of first poem and of last poem. Not in Shaw & Shoemaker. With: Shaw, Thomas. A mournful song. Part II -- Shaw, Thomas. Melancholy shipwreck. Intended to be separated. First line: All ye kind husbands, pray draw near.
A mother's quest
A mother's prayer for her boy out there
words by Andrew B. Sterling ; music by Arthur Lange. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of woman kneeling / Starmer.
A mother's prayer
At head of text: Dedicated to Mrs. *** St. Louis. Printed on white paper with black ink, text within double line border. Poem in seven eight-line stanzas.
A mother's prayer
A mother's prayer
At head of text: Dedicated to Mrs. *** St. Louis. Printed on white paper with black ink, text within double line border. Poem in seven eight-line stanzas.
A mother's prayer
by Mrs. Margaret Piggot. At head of text: The Lady who wrote the following, was thrown into a state of great agitation... Dated: April 27th, 1861.
A mother's dream
by Irving Austein. At end of text: The Krieger Press, G Ave, C. New York City, December 18, 1917.
A mother's dream
by Irving Austein. At end of text: The Krieger Press, G Ave, C. New York City, December 18, 1917.
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