To my mother
Brown University
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
To my husband
Brown University
To my friends of the trail
Brown University
To my friend abroad
Brown University
Page [2] blank.
To my father
Brown University
No. 35 of untitled series.
To my father
Brown University
No. 35 of untitled series.
To my father
Brown University
No. 35 of untitled series.
To my father
Brown University
To my dog
Brown University
Within single line border. Printed on light green board.
Printed on silk.
To my daughter
Brown University
Printed in brown on heavy ivory paper; illustration in pink and green. At upper left colored illustration of rose. Poem in two four-line stanzas. At end of text: cEmma E. Koehler, Chicago. 131. No. 131 of untitled series. Publication date from Library of Congress date stamp on Brown University copy.
To my daughter
Brown University
To my darling
Brown University
Printed in red, sepia and copper on heavy paper in postcard format. At head of text sepia reproduction of posed photograph on each postcard, standing woman and man driving carriage on first, three women watching man reading on bench on second and eloping couple with ladder on third; title in copper heart in upper right corner. Below photograph different four-line poem in red on each postcard. In lower left corner on each card: Copyrighted 1908 by I. Grollman.
To my darling
Brown University
Printed in red, sepia and copper on heavy paper in postcard format. At head of text sepia reproduction of posed photograph on each postcard, standing woman and man driving carriage on first, three women watching man reading on bench on second and eloping couple with ladder on third; title in copper heart in upper right corner. Below photograph different four-line poem in red on each postcard. In lower left corner on each card: Copyrighted 1908 by I. Grollman.
To my darling
Brown University
Printed in red, sepia and copper on heavy paper in postcard format. At head of text sepia reproduction of posed photograph on each postcard, standing woman and man driving carriage on first, three women watching man reading on bench on second and eloping couple with ladder on third; title in copper heart in upper right corner. Below photograph different four-line poem in red on each postcard. In lower left corner on each card: Copyrighted 1908 by I. Grollman.
To my countrymen
Brown University
At head of text: A voice for peace.
To my country
Brown University
Within double line border.
To my country
Brown University
Within double line border.
To my country
Brown University
Within double line border.
To my brother and sister: on the death of their little daughter, Eva, who died March 20th, 1873, aged 5 years, 2 months and 17 days
Brown University
Within mourning border.
To my boy "On duty"
Brown University
To my Bible
Brown University
Within double line border.
To my beloved Rexford
Brown University
Announcement of death of Rexford Wordsworth Sharp.
To my aunt
Brown University
No. 172 of untitled series.
To Mrs. Waterhouse
Brown University
To Mrs. T.M. Marston
Brown University
Pages [2, 4] blank. Double printing.
To Mrs. Mary H. Gilbert on her hundredth birthday
Brown University
Poem in six four-line stanzas. Printed in brown. At end of text: S.A.B. Author's name and place of publication from annotations on Brown University copy; suggested range of dates from internal evidence.
To Mrs. K: on the death of her child
Brown University
At head of title: From the Hallowell Gazette, April 17, 1858. At end of text: H.A.
At end of text H.E.H.
To Mr. and Mrs. St. John, from their spirit daughter
Brown University
Message of farewell and love from daughter Lottie who died leaving a baby son. Message of farewell and love from daughter Lottie who died leaving a baby son. through Mrs. Sarah A. Wakeman, of Illinois. Printed in three columns divided by single lines. Poem in 19 stanzas of varying length. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.