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 candle on a winter night may shine
Title from first line. French fold; printed on double leaves.
A candidate for military promotion.
At head of title hand-colored wood-engraving of one Union soldier pricking another with his bayonet. Four-line poem.
A candidate for military promotion
At head of title hand-colored wood-engraving of one Union soldier pricking another with his bayonet. Four-line poem.
A campaign song. For the times
Song for Democratic candidates Bryan and Sewall.
A campaign song
At head of text: The following purporting to be one of the new songs of the Oneida Battery made its appearance during the past week. Text of song in nine four-line stanzas. Mention of McKinley suggests date of one of his presidential elections, in 1896 or 1900.
A campaign song
At head of text: The following purporting to be one of the new songs of the Oneida Battery made its appearance during the past week. Text of song in nine four-line stanzas. Mention of McKinley suggests date of one of his presidential elections, in 1896 or 1900.
A call to America
Tune: "Maryland, My Maryland."
A call to America
Tune: "Maryland, My Maryland."
A California state song
A busy business man's prayer
Broadsheet printed on heavy cream paper. One poem on recto, another on verso. At end of text on verso: Tract Evangelistic Crusade. John Denmark, Tract Evangelist. P.O. Box 154, Tempe, Arizona 85282. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.
A builder
Contains request for gift to Boston University Building Fund.
A broker there was in Providence town
Song concerning business and drinking mentions Old John Brown, Tommy Davis, Seth, George, Amos and Watson; reference to "mods:state Auditors Punch" may be political. Song concerning business and drinking mentions Old John Brown, Tommy Davis, Seth, George, Amos and Watson; reference to "mods:state Auditors Punch" may be political. Title from first line. To be sung to the tune: The cork leg. Text of song in seven four-line stanzas with two-line nonsense refrain beginning: Ri tu di nu, di nu di nu. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence. Two political poems, Padelford's address to Hon. Thomas Davis (Brown University copy HB9781) and A dialogue between Padelford, Barstow and Davis (Brown University copy HB12564) give clue to some men mentioned; Davis was a Rhode Island Congressman.
A broken song
Donald E. Harding. Printed in green and blue on recto and brown on verso on heavy white paper in postcard format. At left of title cut of green laurel wreath. Poem in two four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: Donald E. Harding, Elgin, Ill. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copies.
A brivele zu Got
A brivele fun Russland
A brivele fun Russland
A brivele der mame
A brivele dem taten
A bright New Year
Printed in gold and colors on heavy glossy white paper within gilt border on recto, single-line purple border with ornamental corners on verso; text on verso in purple. On recto colored lithograph of flowers with girl's faces captioned: A bright New Year. On verso eight-line poem. At end of poem: Copyright Fannie Rochat. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
A bright & happy Christmas
Printed in colors and gold on heavy paper in postcard format; illuminated and rubricated initials; red horizontal rules between lines of text. At head of title and below text illustrations of holly sprays. Type-signed at end: F.R. Havergal. "No. 307. Printed in Bavaria."--Verso. Suggested publication date from postmark on Brown University copy.
A brief history of the marriage of John Dean and his own Mary Ann: Being the fourth song published about the gallant young coachman and the cruel father
Young woman elopes with coachman. Young woman elopes with coachman. Song sheet printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line. To be sung to the tune: Villikins and his Dinah. At end of text: J. Andrews, Publisher, 38 Chatham St., New York. Andrews printed at 38 Chatham Street between 1853 and 1859.
A brief history of the marriage of John Dean and his own Mary Ann: Being the fourth song published about the gallant young coachman and the cruel father
Young woman elopes with coachman. Young woman elopes with coachman. Song sheet printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line. To be sung to the tune: Villikins and his Dinah. At end of text: J. Andrews, Publisher, 38 Chatham St., New York. Andrews printed at 38 Chatham Street between 1853 and 1859.
A breevele der mamme
A Bozenkill garland, May, 1934
Gloria Goddard & Clement Wood. Processed copy in two columns. Poem in first column in four numbered sections, ascribed to "our own" E.E. C-mm-ngs, G-rtr-d- St--n, W-lt Wh-tm-n and S-m--l H-ff-nst--n; type-signed: Gloria Goddard & Clement Wood. In second column prose invitation with directions from Albany.
A bouquet of ten roses
Prose poem. At end of text: Robert Bly. Colophon on verso: ... Printed to coincide with the author's workshop and reading at Seattle, Wash., August 1, 1981 ... Printed by Two Magpie Press, Kendrick, Idaho 83537. Title, initials and illustration in red.
A bouquet of ten roses
Prose poem. At end of text: Robert Bly. Colophon on verso: ... Printed to coincide with the author's workshop and reading at Seattle, Wash., August 1, 1981 ... Printed by Two Magpie Press, Kendrick, Idaho 83537. Title, initials and illustration in red.
A bouquet of ten roses
Prose poem. At end of text: Robert Bly. Colophon on verso: ... Printed to coincide with the author's workshop and reading at Seattle, Wash., August 1, 1981 ... Printed by Two Magpie Press, Kendrick, Idaho 83537. Title, initials and illustration in red.
A bouquet for you
A blessed pilgrimage: lines
written by Mrs. A.M. Offutt on reaching her 87th birthday. Poem in four eight-line stanzas. Place and date of publication suggested because the author's other poem written on her 87th birthday, entitled: The years that have come and gone, was published in Manchester in 1900.
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