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.
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Items in this collection

The living and the dead

The living and the dead

Brown University

At head of text: The following extract from the lamented Capt. Geo. W. Batchelder, together with the accompanying poem, we copy from the Salem Observer .. At head of text: By Maybelle.

The little Widow Dunn

The little Widow Dunn

Brown University

by Edward Harrigan. Within double-line border. Text of song in two twelve-line stanzas with eight-line chorus beginning: Eilleen Allanna, Starry Banner. At end of text: Published and sold, wholesale and retail, by Bell & Company, General Publishers of Songs and Ballads, Booksellers, Stationers and Periodical Agents, No. 639 Kearny Street, Bet. Clay and Commercial, San Francisco. Not in Wolf, American song sheets. Entered under title rather than author. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The little white cross

The little white cross

Brown University

Within ornamental border. At head of text: Dedicated to the unknown soldier dead on Flanders field.

The little temperance preachers

By Mrs. E.J. Richmond. At head of title cut of two girls talking to man. Caption title. Poetry and prose. In upper right corner of page [1]: No. 57. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The little sod shanty on the claim

Broadsheet printed on card stock. Photograph of family standing in front of sod house pasted on verso. To be sung to the tune: Old log cabin in the lane. Text of song in four eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: The hinges are of leather and the windows have no glass. At end of text: Photographed and published by J.N. Templeman, Miller, Dakota. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The little pilgrim

The little pilgrim

Brown University

Printed in black and blue within blue ornamental border. At head of title illustration of little boy with pilgrim's staff. Poem in three four-line stanzas. At end of text: No. 51. Suggested publication date from ms. notation on Brown University copy.

The little good for nothing's good for something after all

words by Lou Klein ; music by Harry Von Tilzer. For voice and piano. Caption title. Poem by Lou Klein (to be recited during 2nd chorus of song): p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Laurette Taylor in nurse's uniform; photograph of Harry Von Tilzer; drawing of nurse with wounded man / E.H. Pfeiffer, N.Y.

The little good for nothing's good for something after all

words by Lou Klein ; music by Harry Von Tilzer. For voice and piano. Caption title. Poem by Lou Klein (to be recited during 2nd chorus of song): p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Laurette Taylor in nurse's uniform; photograph of Harry Von Tilzer; drawing of nurse with wounded man / E.H. Pfeiffer, N.Y.

The little bronze button

Poem about veterans' lapel button imitates S. Woodworth's The old oaken bucket. Poem about veterans' lapel button imitates S. Woodworth's The old oaken bucket. By John L. Parker, Post No. 5, Lynn, Mass., author of "We old boys," etc. To be sung to the tune: The old oaken bucket. At end of text: Lynn, Mass., March 4, 1899. Poem in three eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: The little brown button.

The little bronze button

Poem about veterans' lapel button imitates S. Woodworth's poem entitled The old oaken bucket. Poem about veterans' lapel button imitates S. Woodworth's poem entitled The old oaken bucket. To be sung to the tune: The old oaken bucket. Poem in three eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: The little brown button. Author's name not on item. Possible range of publication dates from date of another edition, and mention of old age of veterans suggests Civil War is well in the past.

The little boy who prayed

Poem in 14 four-line stanzas. Printed in two columns divided by single line within border of type ornament sections; ornamental blocks above and below title. At end of text: Printed for F. H....1850.

The liquor-dealer's prayer

In verse. At head of title: No. 16. Printed area: 19:6 x 11.1 cm. At head of text, quotation beginning: "When ye spread forth your hands ... ; at end: Isaiah i.15, 16. Another quotation from Isaiah at end of text. Text within decorative and single line borders; decorative initial "A" First line: At evening he retired to pray.

The liquor traffic forced to show its hand

Printed in two columns divided by single line. At head of title wood-engraving of large hand grasping woman, baby and little girl. Below title two-line verse caption beginning: The lips of the mother are cold with grief, and her children shiver and shrink. Verse dialogue between a mother and a saloon-keeper, entitled: The mother's appeal. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The lines on this sheet were composed by P. Russell, who has received eleven wounds under the American flag, who has ...

Contains 6 poems. Title and introduction printed across full width of sheet. The Four quadrants beneath outlined by borders of type ornaments, contain one or two poems each, printed in two columns. Imprint date assumed to be after 1815. First line: I was born in New Hampshire, in Hillsborough county.

The lines on this sheet were composed by P. Russell, while lying in irons in the Moro Castle: - who has been prevente...

Contains 6 poems. Title and introduction printed across full width of sheet. Four quadrants beneath, outlined by borders of type ornaments, contain one or two poems each, printed in two columns divided by single lines. Imprint date suggested by internal evidence. First line: In my youth I was blest, by the smiles of a mother.

The lines of this sheet, were composed by the unfortunate Russell, who has been prevented from obtaining a livelihood...

Border of type ornaments at head and bottom. Title printed across width of sheet, separated by curvilinear line from poems beneath. Poems printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. Imprint date suggested by typography and content. Same imprint origin as John Hay Library copy HB10306 (Capt. Jones victory ... by P. Russell.