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 Lenten meditation
At end of text: G.S.D.
A legend
Printed in green with floral garland at head of title.
A lay of the olden time: by Peyton S. Symmes
Poetry and prose printed in three columns divided by double rule. Mentions that the carrier boy in 1816 was Wesley Smead, now a banker in Cincinnati.
A laundry boy's greeting
Boy who delivers laundry in all weathers asks for holiday tip. Boy who delivers laundry in all weathers asks for holiday tip. Processed copy. Poem in five lines. Place and date of publication from ms. note by donor on Brown University copy.
A lament for a mother: suggested by the recent death of Mrs. John Tappan, of Boston
At head of title: "[From the New Haven Record]" At end of text: C.R.
A la recherche du tabac et des billiards perdus: (for Dick and Bill Straight Cut Ehrlich)
Printed in one and two columns on glossy white paper. On page [1] uncaptioned illustration of men playing billiards; smaller illustrations throughout. "This 4 page divertissement prepared for Leavitt & Peirce by Waldo Peirce '07." Place of publication suggested because of poem's account of Harvard students; suggested publication date from ms. notation on Brown University copy. Poem.
Page [4] blank. Page [1] within mourning border. Cover title without subtitle; full title with subtitle on page [2] Poem in eleven four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: R. L. Desdunes.
A knot of ribbon
At head of text: By Mrs. J.A.S.
A knot of ribbon
At head of text: By Mrs. J.A.S.
A knot of ribbon
At head of text: By Mrs. J.A.S.
A kiss defined, analyzed, and discussed like it was a blubber "bust"
Title same as first line.
A kind is dus glick auf der welt
A khaver'te
A khaki lad: song
words by F. Bickley ; music by Florence Aylward. For voice and piano in G major. Caption title. Sung by: Reinald Werrenrath. Advertisements for other songs: p. [2, 6] Also published in F major.
A Kansas song
Page [4] blank.
A kaironody, or, ode on the flight of time
Page [1] and page [4] blank.
A just and final award
At left of poem cut of hand with index finger pointing upward. At end of text: Copyright 1975 Tom Bridwell.
A jubilant canzonet for the Salem Light Infantry
By the author of The Ploughboy. Poetry. At head of title wood-engraving of helmet. Poem in eight four-line stanzas; author's name not on item. Publication date from information in cataloging of OCLC 12690020 for Cook's The telegraph, 1861. First line: Brightly as suns their helmets shone.
A joyous New Year
Broadsheet printed in colors on recto, black on verso, on heavy white paper. On recto colored lithograph of vase of flowers, captioned: A joyous New Year. On verso, headed: The compliments of the season from A. Joyce, Confectioner, Montreal, poem beginning: May health abound and wealth surround. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
A joyous birthday
M.C.B. Birthday card printed in black and gold on heavy, glossy card stock; initial letter of first line gold. At left of text black-and-white illustration of five children crossing stream on stepping-stones, with one girl running behind them. Poem in six lines.
A joy on Easter
Printed in gold and colors within green border on heavy paper in postcard format; illuminated initial block. Title printed vertically at right of poem. Facsimile author autograph at end of poem: Mary C. Low. "No. 3267. Printed in Bavaria."--Verso. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
A jolly Christmas to you
1 broadsheet. On recto colored illustration of bedroom with six boys fighting, captioned: Home for the holidays. Poetry on verso, printed in brown, with initial block: What can you expect from six boys in a bedroom [First line] At end of text: A.J.F.
A jolly Christmas to you
1 broadsheet. On recto colored illustration of bedroom with six boys fighting, captioned: Home for the holidays. Poetry on verso, printed in brown, with initial block: What can you expect from six boys in a bedroom [First line] At end of text: A.J.F.
A jolly Christmas to you
1 broadsheet. On recto colored illustration of bedroom with six boys fighting, captioned: Home for the holidays. Poetry on verso, printed in brown, with initial block: What can you expect from six boys in a bedroom [First line] At end of text: A.J.F.
A jolly Christmas explained
Pages 2, 4 blank.
A jitney jaunt
Page [4] blank. Page [1]: Facsimile t.1. (August, 1916 to unspecified correspondent) by J.P. Pillow.
A jitney jaunt
Page [4] blank. Page [1]: Facsimile t.1. (August, 1916 to unspecified correspondent) by J.P. Pillow.
A hynm [sic] for peace
Tune: America. Within ornamental border. At end of text: Copyrighted 1915 by W. Washington Fristoe, 718 W. Superior Ave. Cleveland, Ohio.
Within border of type ornaments. At head of text: L.M.
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