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
1 July 1972: Gyps fulvus
by Walter Hamady. Printed in black and reddish-brown on cream laid paper. At left of text drawing of human face and vultures. Poem. "Drawing by Mary Laird, entry by Walter Hamady."
*Asquamchumauk-e
John Foster, the Manchester poet. At end of text: (From The Mirror and American, [Manchester, N.H.] July 18, 1913)
[Woe]ful lamentat[ion] of Jane Shore: a goldsmith's wife in London, concubine to King Edward the Fourth
Poetry. Printed in two columns, divided by line of type ornaments. Title possibly "Mournful lamentation of Jane Shore" Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
[Time]s as they are
Poem in twenty-four stanzas. Printed area measures 21.2 x 15.5 cm. Text printed in two columns divided by line of advertising: Sold wholesale and retail by Leonard Deming, No. 1 Market-Square, corner of Merchants Row, Boston. Leonard Deming is listed at this address in Boston directories for 1829 to 1831; also cited as No. 1, Faneuil Hall, South side. This edition not in Ford or Checklist Amer. imprints. First line is missing the first few words; ends in "has become all a cheat."
[Postcard of stage scene]
Printed on glossy paper in postcard format. On recto reproduction of black-and-white photograph of 12 costumed young girls on stage. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Within border of type ornaments. Printed in two columns.
(Opening section): Maclise made me on the dead language in Paris at dixhuit rue descartes
Angus Maclise. 1 broadsheet. Broadsheet folded into fourths creating 8 pages; folded triptych style; recto of middle panels display as title page. Printed in red.
(Opening section): Maclise made me on the dead language in Paris at dixhuit rue descartes
Angus Maclise. 1 broadsheet. Broadsheet folded into fourths creating 8 pages; folded triptych style; recto of middle panels display as title page. Printed in red.
(Opening section): Maclise made me on the dead language in Paris at dixhuit rue descartes
Angus Maclise. 1 broadsheet. Broadsheet folded into fourths creating 8 pages; folded triptych style; recto of middle panels display as title page. Printed in red.
(If I am not at the roll-call): kiss her good bye for me
words and music by George L. Boyden. Waltz for voice and piano. Caption title. Sung by: Millicent Pauline Clark. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Millicent Pauline Clark / Boston Photo Eng. Co.
(Goodbye and luck be with you): laddie boy
words by Will D. Cobb ; music by Gus Edwards. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Rio Janeiro": p. [5] Advertisement for "Rose Marie" and three other songs: p. [6] Cover illustration: drawing of a soldier saying good-bye to his sweetheart / Edgar Keller, '17.
(Good-bye and luck be with you): laddie boy
words by Will D. Cobb ; music by Gus Edwards. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of a soldier saying good-bye to his sweetheart / Edgar Keller, '17.
(Army) Yankees on the Rhine: (Navy) Yankees on the brine
words by F.N. Graves ; music by C.W. Bennet. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Also published for: band, orchestra, and in school edition.
"You!"
"Yankee": (he's there, all there)
words and music by Chas. K. Harris. Waltz for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of U.S. Marine.
"Yankee Doodle" up to date
"Wireless telegraphy."
Issued in post card format.
"Wilson, democracy, and the red, white and blue."
words and music by Wm. H. Hollingsworth. For voice and piano. Caption title. Cover illustration: photograph of W.H. Hollingsworth, left profile, printed in black ink; drawing of Statue of Liberty.
"When Uncle Sam caught the Kaiser."
Poetry. Type-signed at end: Eliza Doyle Smith.
"What! rob a poor man of his Beer!"
by John Barleycorn, Jr. Poetry and prose. Within border of type ornaments. First line same as title. Includes poem in five four-line stanzas and paragraph about male employees'spending two-thirds of wages to saloons. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
"What is the German's Fatherland?"
At head of text: Translated from the German of Arndt by Theo. Sutro. German Verbruederungs-Fest, New York, August 19, 1870. First line: What is the German's Fatherland?
"We're marching down to Mexico."
"Vanity Fair."
Broadsheet. Poetry. Type-signed at end: By William Silk. On verso:William Silk, Umbrellas Manufacturer, Central Falls, R.I. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
"Until we know"
At end of text: Cora Linn Daniels, Sardia Lodge, Wrentham, Mass. March 1, 1898.
"True peace"
"Tricky Paddles"
"To a soldier boy."
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