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 new colossus

The new colossus

Brown University

Hand colored illustration of statue of Liberty in blue at head of poem. Edition of 500 copies.

The new church doctrine

The new church doctrine

Brown University

Poet disapproves of idea that even sinners will escape hell. Poet disapproves of idea that even sinners will escape hell. By Will Carleton. Printed in two columns divided by single line. At end of text: New York Times. Dialect poem in eight twelve-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and date of author's death.

The new church doctrine

The new church doctrine

Brown University

Poet disapproves of idea that even sinners will escape hell. Poet disapproves of idea that even sinners will escape hell. By Will Carleton. Printed in two columns divided by single line. At end of text: New York Times. Dialect poem in eight twelve-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and date of author's death.

The new burlesque song: The royal wild beast show sung by Mr. Walter Howard

Words by Frank W. Green ; music by Alfred Lee. Broadsheet printed on purple paper. At center of first line of title vignette of royal arms supported by lion and unicorn; at top on verso similar but not identical vignette. On recto text of song in seven four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: The camomiles, the crocodiles, and all that you could wish. At head of text on recto: With characteristic and descriptive vocal and instrumental chorus of the whole of the Royal Original Christy's Minstrels at St. George's Hall. On verso, headed: New copyright songs sung by the Royal Original Christy's Minstrels at St. George's Hall, excerpts from notices all dated 1869 and song list.

The new birth

The new birth

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments. At end of text: S.M.D.

The new America

The new America

Brown University

Tune: All Saints New. Within border of type ornaments. At head of text: Dedicated to the Memory of Abraham Lincoln.

The new America

The new America

Brown University

At head of text: Composed for the Convention of the N.W.S.A., held at Washington, D.C., Jan. 23, 24 and 25, 1883.

The negro in it

The negro in it

Brown University

At end of text: Author, Mrs. Lena Mason. Poem praises J.B. Parker, who seized assassin of President McKinley in 1901.

The Navy will bring them back!

words by Howard Johnson ; music by Ira Schuster. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Featured by Frank Carter in Ziegfeld's Follies. Advertisement for two other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Frank Carter; cover design / [rose symbol] Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover. Also published for: male or mixed voices, band, orchestra.

The Navy will bring them back!

words by Howard Johnson ; music by Ira Schuster. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Featured by Frank Carter in Ziegfeld's Follies. Advertisement for two other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Frank Carter; cover design / [rose symbol] Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover. Also published for: male or mixed voices, band, orchestra.

The Navy will bring them back!

words by Howard Johnson ; music by Ira Schuster. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Featured by Frank Carter in Ziegfeld's Follies. Advertisement for two other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Frank Carter; cover design / [rose symbol] Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover. Also published for: male or mixed voices, band, orchestra.

The Navy will bring them back!

words by Howard Johnson ; music by Ira Schuster. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Featured by Frank Carter in Ziegfeld's Follies. Advertisement for two other songs: p. [4 Cover illustration: photograph of Frank Carter; cover design / [rose symbol Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover. Also published for: male or mixed voices, band, orchestra.

The Nave Gallery: Sound vision

Printed in colors on heavy glossy white paper in postcard format; text on verso in black. On recto colored collage by Michael Basinski. Title from first words on recto. On verso information about SoundVision/VisionSound III, an international exhibition of "verbo-visual artwork & performance" July 7-Aug. 6, 2005 at the Nave Gallery.

The Nave Gallery: Sound vision

Printed in colors on heavy glossy white paper in postcard format; text on verso in black. On recto colored collage by Michael Basinski. Title from first words on recto. On verso information about SoundVision/VisionSound III, an international exhibition of "verbo-visual artwork & performance" July 7-Aug. 6, 2005 at the Nave Gallery.

The Nativity: a dramatic canticle

Words by Dr. J.C. Palmer, U.S.N. ; music by James D. Dana. Page [4] blank. Text without music; stage directions in margins. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The Nativity: a dramatic canticle

Words by Dr. J.C. Palmer, U.S.N. ; music by James D. Dana. Page [4] blank. Text without music; stage directions in margins. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The Nativity: a dramatic canticle

Words by Dr. J.C. Palmer, U.S.N. ; music by James D. Dana. Page [4] blank. Text without music; stage directions in margins. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.