A bit of California's beauty
Brown University
1 broadsheet. Printed in brown on colored paper. Photograph "Sunlight thro' the Redwoods" by Lindley Eddy tipped in.
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
A bit of California's beauty
Brown University
1 broadsheet. Printed in brown on colored paper. Photograph "Sunlight thro' the Redwoods" by Lindley Eddy tipped in.
A birthday wish
Brown University
Pages [2,3] blank.
A birthday reverie. 1836-1906
Brown University
A birthday question
Brown University
Within ornamental border. Page [4] blank. At head of text: Truly yours, Henry L.B. Tolles. Born at Middletown, Conn., January 20, 1852.
A birthday offering
Brown University
Pages [3] and [4] blank. At end of text: M.E.S. Title from first line.
A birthday offering
Brown University
Pages [3] and [4] blank. At end of text: M.E.S. Title from first line.
A birthday offering
Brown University
Pages [3] and [4] blank. At end of text: M.E.S. Title from first line.
A birthday greeting to Comrade J.P. Eagal
Brown University
Broadsheet. On verso at head of title photographs of young man in Civil War uniform and of old man, captioned: 1862 Arthur J. Robinson 1916 Co. E. 33d Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers. On verso Decoration Day, May 30.
A birthday greeting
Brown University
A birthday carol
Brown University
1 broadsheet. Hand-colored humorous illustration on verso.
A bird's-eye view of us: Read at the supper and roll call of the Union Congregational Church January 25, 1898
Brown University
Poetry. Humorous poem full of puns on names of members of congregation. At end of poem: Charlotte E. L. Slocum. First line: Were Goldsmith a guest at our table to-night.
A bird came down the walk
Brown University
First line same as title. Colophon on verso: The Unbound Anthology. The Poets' Guild. Christodora House...New York City...From the Complete poems ... by permission of ... Little, Brown and Company.
At end of text: Recorder.
A big old giant mountain
Brown University
Title from first line. Poetry; each poem type-signed at end. Mimeographed typescript on white paper. At head of title: Free poems among friends. "Free poems among friends" had its beginnings in San Francisco in the Spring of 1965. By September of that year publication was continued until 1967 by the Detroit Artist's Workshop, later Detroit Artists' Workshop Press (see "Free poems among friends, Vol. 1, p.[3]").
A benediction
Brown University
Within single line border.
A benediction
Brown University
Within single line border.
A benediction
Brown University
Within single line border.
A benediction
Brown University
Title from cover. Contains verses from the Bible. Title within a border of type ornaments with an illustration of a cross. Text within a single line ruled border.
A benediction
Brown University
Within single line border.
A bashful man, or, What do you think of that?
Brown University
copyright by J.S.B. Anderson. Caption title. Poetry in 13 four-line stanzas. Pages [1] and [4] blank.
A baptist hymn
Brown University
At head of text: Published by R.C. Kemp.
A baptist hymn
Brown University
At head of text: Published by R.C. Kemp.
A ballad on the Vicksburg Canal
Brown University
by D.C., Co. K, 11th Reg. Mo. Vol. Within double line border. At end of text, below border: Memphis Bulletin Print, Telegraph Building.
A ballad on the Vicksburg Canal
Brown University
by D.C., Co. K, 11th Reg. Mo. Vol. Within double line border. At end of text, below border: Memphis Bulletin Print, Telegraph Building.
A ballad of verses: composed by S.B. for Lydia Clemons, of Williamstown, on the death of her husband, John Clemons, who died 1813
Brown University
Printed in two columns divided by single line. Printed area measures: 19.4 x 12.5 cm. Poem in 20 four-line stanzas.
A ballad of verses: composed by S.B. for Lydia Clemons, of Williamstown, on the death of her husband, John Clemons, who died 1813
Brown University
Printed in two columns divided by single line. Printed area measures: 19.4 x 12.5 cm. Poem in 20 four-line stanzas.
A ballad of verses: composed by S.B. for John Paddock on account of the death of his first wife
Brown University
Printed in two columns divided by single line. Printed area measures: 19.4 x 13.1 cm. Poem in 20 four-line stanzas.
A ballad of verses: composed by S.B. for John Paddock on account of the death of his first wife
Brown University
Printed in two columns divided by single line. Printed area measures: 19.4 x 13.1 cm. Poem in 20 four-line stanzas.