The U.S.A. today
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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
The U.S. K's Brigade
Brown University
Pages [2,4] blank. Text within single line border. Page [1] ... Dedicated to the Uniform Sir Knights, Order Sons of St. George ..
The U-Boat, the Cotton Ball and the preacher
Brown University
Text on page [1] within decorative border. At end of text: When writing a letter to the soldier boy, ..
The two trappers
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The two trappers
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The two trappers
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The two telegraphs
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1 broadsheet. Broadsheet with poetry and prose. Poetry on recto printed within border of type ornaments in two columns divided by single line. At end of text on recto: "Printed for W.R. Hunter, 'The Children's Friend', by Innes & Maguire, Baltimore.
The two soldiers of Rhyne and Libertine outwitted
Brown University
Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments.
The two ships
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The two roads; or, the Christian's and sinner's experience
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Within border of type ornaments.
The two roads; or, the Christian's and sinner's experience
Brown University
Within border of type ornaments.
The two pearls
Brown University
Page [2] and [4] blank. At head of text: "Each several gate was of one pearl". - Bible.
The two mysteries
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The two mysteries
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The two mammas. (For Edward and Henry.)
Brown University
by Fanny Forester. Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments; ornamental border at head of title and at end of text. At end of text: Maulmain, 1849. Printed by J. Gilman, (Phenix Building,) 24 State-Street, Newburyport, Mass.
The two glasses
Brown University
Poetry. At end of text: Anonymous. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
The two gates
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Printed in green. At end of text: S.S. Conant.
The two gates
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Printed in green. At end of text: S.S. Conant.
The twins
Brown University
Page [4] blank. Page [1] within border of type ornaments.
The twin ballots
Brown University
At end of text: Five (5) cents per 100 by mail, in any quantity. / Address: D.S. von Nieda, Ephrata, Pa.
The twilight hour
Brown University
Within border of type ornaments.
The twilight hour
Brown University
Within border of type ornaments.
The twilight hour
Brown University
Within border of type ornaments.
The twenty-ninth Regiment
Brown University
Within single line border with simple type ornament at head of text. Internal evidence points to a Northern regiment, possibly Maine?
Program of the anniversary celebration with text of two songs. Program of the anniversary celebration with text of two songs. Cover title. Page [4] blank. Printed in black on white laid paper. Pembroke seal at head of title.
The Twentieth Star Corps
Brown University
Air: Bonnie Blue Flag. Within border of type ornaments. At head of text: H.W.B., Co. A, 105th Illinois. Date suggested because poem refers to capture of Atlanta (September 1864) but not to end of war.
Page [4] blank. Caption title. Poetry printed within double lined border with ornamental corners.
Page [4] blank. Caption title. Poetry printed within double lined border with ornamental corners.
The twelfth day of April
Brown University
Pages [2]-[3] blank. Printed in red and gold within gold single-line border on pages [1] and [4]; text in red. Title from first line. Poem in eight four-line stanzas. Suggested place and date of publication from mention of fire in Chelsea, which was virtually destroyed by fire Apr. 12, 1908; cf. Encyclopedia of American facts and dates, 6th ed., New York, 1972, p. 410.