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 Russians were rushin', the Yanks started yankin'

lyric by Carey Morgan ; music by Chas. McCarron. Waltz for voice and piano. Cover title. War slogan: p. [4] Advertisement for "Ev'rybody's crazy 'bout the doggone blues" and other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of old man and little boy / E E Walton.

The Russians were rushin', the Yanks started yankin'

lyric by Carey Morgan ; music by Chas. McCarron. Waltz for voice and piano. Cover title. War slogan: p. [4] Advertisement for "Ev'rybody's crazy 'bout the doggone blues" and other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of old man and little boy / E E Walton.

The Russians were rushin', the Yanks started yankin'

lyric by Carey Morgan ; music by Chas. McCarron. Waltz for voice and piano. Cover title. War slogan: p. [4] Advertisement for "Ev'rybody's crazy 'bout the doggone blues" and other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of old man and little boy / E E Walton.

The runaway

The runaway

Brown University

Robert Frost. On verso: From "New Hampshire" with permission of the publishers, Henry Holt and Co. The Unbound Anthology/ The Poet's Guild/ Christodora House/ ...

The rumseller's foe

The rumseller's foe

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by single line. Poem in 23 four-line stanzas. At head of text: Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1881, by James Jowitt, in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

The Ruml plan Congressmen

Issued in postcard format, printed in black on recto and in green on verso. Poem in five four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of poem: F.G. Swanson, Tyler, Tex. Suggested publication date from postmark on Brown University copy.

The rum maniac

The rum maniac

Brown University

by Joseph Alison. Poetry and prose. Cover title. At head of text wood-engraving of sick man in bed tormented by demons. Date from mention of Maine liquor law passed in 1851 and other internal evidence.

The Royal Yacht Club - in a fix

At head of text: The following is said to have been written by one of the "forred" hands, on board the Yacht "America" ..

The roving Irishman!

The roving Irishman!

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by line of advertisement within border of type ornaments: Songs so[l]d at wholesale and retail--at No. 78 N[o]rth Main-street, Providence. Cut of man riding backward on galloping horse at head of title. Poem in eight eight-line stanzas. Suggested publication date from ms. date on Brown University copy.

The roving Irishman

The roving Irishman

Brown University

Proofs(?) printed on verso of pages from arithmetic textbook. Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. This edition not in Ford, compare Ford 3325a. Broadside could have been printed in Boston by Wm. Rutter.

The rose of No Mans Land

words by Jack Caddigan ; music by James A. Brennan. For voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: barbed wire, a rose, and a nurse's face.

The rose of No Mans Land

words by Jack Caddigan ; music by James A. Brennan. For voice and piano. Cover title. "Dedicated to the American Red Cross Nurse"--Caption. Cover illustration: barbed wire, a rose, and a nurse's face.

The rose of No Man's Land

words by Jack Caddigan ; music by James A. Brennan. For voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for "Good morning, Mr. Zip-zip-zip" and another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: a nurse. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

The rose of "No Man's Land": (La rose sus les boulets)

French text by Louis Delamarre ; [words by] Jack Caddigan & [music by] James A. Brennan. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Dreaming sweet dreams of Mother" and another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: a nurse. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

The rose of "No Man's Land": (La rose sus les boulets)

French text by Louis Delamarre ; [words by] Jack Caddigan & [music by] James A. Brennan. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Dreaming sweet dreams of Mother" and another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: a nurse. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

The rose of "No Man's Land": (La rose sus les boulets)

French text by Louis Delamarre ; [words by] Jack Caddigan & [music by] James A. Brennan. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Dreaming sweet dreams of Mother" and another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: a nurse. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

The rose of "No Man's Land": (La rose sous les boulets)

French text by Louis Delamarre ; [words] by Jack Caddigan & [music by] James A. Brennan. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for three songbooks, in blue ink. Cover illustration: a nurse. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.

The rose of "No Man's Land": (La rose sous les boulets)

French text by Louis Delamarre ; [words by] Jack Caddigan & [music by] James A. Brennan. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "I know what it means to be lonesome" and another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: woman and urn on bench / Lionel S. Reiss. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.