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 ladies' song

The ladies' song

Brown University

Pages [2] and [4] blank. To be sung to the tune: Auld lang syne. Poem in five eight-line stanzas. At end of text: Composed by Rev. Brown E. Smith for the Ladies' Circle of the Immanuel Baptist Church. Place of publication from ms. notation on Brown University copy; suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The laddies who fought and won

written, composed and sung by Harry Lauder. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [6] Cover illustration: drawing of thistle.

The lace workers

The lace workers

Brown University

Page [4] blank. At end of text: Mrs. S.R.H. Giles, Hyde Park, Mass. Miss M.J. B--n. Miss E.S. B--n.

The La Grippe

The La Grippe

Brown University

Alexander B. Beard, author. Printed in black on off-white paper within ornamented curvilinear line border. Portrait at left of title, bearing legend: The Author. At end of poem within border: Address of the author, 201 Winter St., W. Manchester, N.H.

The La Grippe

The La Grippe

Brown University

Alexander B. Beard, author. Printed in black on off-white paper within ornamented curvilinear line border. Portrait at left of title, bearing legend: The Author. At end of poem within border: Address of the author, 201 Winter St., W. Manchester, N.H.

The kultchural exchange

The kultchural exchange

Brown University

At end of text: A free poem for Seattle, May 1971. Arranged by Toothpick, Lisbon and Orcas Islands. First edition. Streeter, Dorn, A22. Selfwrappers.

The Klondyke River

The Klondyke River

Brown University

Printed in dark blue on heavy paper. Poem in five four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: Della M. Blaker. Possible range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The kiss that made me cry

words by Joe Burns and Arthur Fields ; music by Archie Gottler. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of man in a soldier's uniform holding a child. Also published for: band, orchestra, male or mixed voices.

The kings of England

The kings of England

Brown University

French fold; printed on double leaves. On page [1]: Ye kings of England with cover design by W. Appleton Aiken.

The kings of England

The kings of England

Brown University

French fold; printed on double leaves. On page [1]: Ye kings of England with cover design by W. Appleton Aiken.

The king's daughter

The king's daughter

Brown University

Religious poem in five six-line stanzas. At end of text: South End Industrial School Press, 45 Bartlett St. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The kid has gone to the colors

words by William Herschell ; music by Leon E. Idoine. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisements for other music: p. 2-[4] Cover illustration: a soldier with his parents. Also published for: orchestra and band.

The kid

The kid

Brown University

Title from first line.

The khaki boys of U.S.A.

words by Ella M. Smith ; music by Howard I. Smith. For voice and piano. Caption title. "Dedicated to 104th Reg't U.S. Infantry"--Cover. Cover illustration: drawing of soldier in front of tent.

The khaki boys

The khaki boys

Brown University

composed and arranged by Maude Benson Dobbins. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisements for other songs: p. [2, 6] Cover illustration: photograph of an army marching band.

The keys of love: and, Calomel song

Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. At end of text in second column: Sold Wholesale and Retail, corner of Merchant's-Row and Market-Square, (up stairs.)--Boston. L. Deming was listed at above address from 1829 to 1831. The Calomel song is attributed to Samuel Thomson.

The Kenneth Patchen Fund: Julien Cornell, Treasurer, Central Valley, New York : we should like to call to your attent...

[signed] W.H. Auden, Archibald MacLeish, T.S. Eliot, Thornton Wilder. Printed in red and blue on white paper; signatures [facsimile?] in red ink. Date from entries in New York Times index relating to fund drives to meet Patchen's medical expenses.