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.

Items in this collection

The ship of state

The ship of state

Brown University

Envelope printed in blue; text and illustration within single-line border and inner partial border of asterisks on left side of envelope leaving space for address. Illustration of sailing ship above twelve lines of The ship of state; poem title not on item. Type signature at end of poem: Longfellow.

The ship of state

The ship of state

Brown University

At head of text: Issued by the Loyal National League at the Sumter Mass Meeting, April 11, 1863, at Union Square. Poem in 22 lines. Type-signed at end of poem: Longfellow. At end of text below rule: Issued from the Offices of the Rebellion Record, 441 and 448 Broadway, New-York.

The shining

The shining

Brown University

Poetry. Printed on yellow paper. Author's name not printed on item. At end of text: Robert Herrick.

The shepherd psalm

The shepherd psalm

Brown University

Printed in blue on glossy white paper. At head of title cut of two child angels. At end of text: Psalm 23. Imprint stamped on verso: Shorty Ables. Route 4, Box 206, Eldorado, Arkansas 71730. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.

The shepherd boy

The shepherd boy

Brown University

Printed on heavy paper. At head of title hand-colored wood-engraving of boy carrying shepherd's crook. Poem in six four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The shepherd and shepherdess

Contains engraving in colors of a young boy and a girl with sheep in a pastoral background. Contains engraving in colors of a young boy and a girl with sheep in a pastoral background. Poem. Author unknown. "Published by B. Bramell, no. 572, North Second Street: Sold also by R. Swift, 360 Market Street, Philadelphia"

The sheltered dove

The sheltered dove

Brown University

Rev. J.T. Umsted, D.D. Poem in 14 four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The Sheffield apprentice: and, The banks of the Dee

Poetry printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line; a comma follows the word "apprentice" in title. The first poem was also issued under title: The 'prentice boy; the second poem is ascribed to John Tait. Internal evidence, e.g. manuscript notation of place and date by former owner, suggests possible range of dates and place of publication. Not in Ford, Shaw/Shoemaker, or Checklist Amer. imprints. Printed area measures: 17.8 x 19.3 cm.

The shame of the Virginius

Poem protests execution of American passengers and crew of the Virginius who were attempting to aid Cuban rebels in 1873. Poem protests execution of American passengers and crew of the Virginius who were attempting to aid Cuban rebels in 1873. By R.S. Spofford. At head of text: Never was the United States Government so badgered, brow-beaten, insulted and outraged by a foreign power .... Poem in eight eight-line stanzas.

The service stars are shining: medium voice

words by Cordelia Brooks Fenno ; music by Frederick S. Converse. For medium voice and piano. Cover title. Cover illustration: house on land with service star in window / EWB.

The service flag: a song

poem by William Herschell ; music by Floyd J. St. Clair. For high voice and piano in B♭ Cover title. Advertisement for another song: p. [8] Also published for: medium voice in G, low voice in E♭

The service flag

The service flag

Brown University

At end of text: Note--The picture is a young man with a determined book ..

The service flag

The service flag

Brown University

At end of text: Note--The picture is a young man with a determined book ..

The service flag

The service flag

Brown University

At end of text: Note--The picture is a young man with a determined book ..

The service flag

The service flag

Brown University

Poem superimposed on cut of service flag above blank Record of Service; soldier at left and sailor at right, both standing with rifle in parade rest position; American flags, eagle and shield above; biplanes at upper corners. Between illustration and Record of Service: These tokens expressing the sentiment of the Service Flag ..