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 Kaiser's mill

The Kaiser's mill

Brown University

At head of text: (Apropos of the statement in the papers that the Germans are disposing of their own dead by incineration in limekilns)

The Judgment Day: and Farewell hymn

Text of two hymns. Text of two hymns. Printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line within border of type ornament sections. Printed area measures: 21.5 x 18.3 cm. First hymn in seven numbered two-line or four-line stanzas with four-line refrain printed at head; second hymn in six numbered four-line stanzas with two-line refrain beginning: Farewell, farewell, farewell. Text in first column begins with refrain for the first five stanzas; other two stanzas have different refrains written out in full. Possible range of publication dates suggested from internal evidence, especially type face and border. Not in Checklist Amer. imprints 1820-1839.

The Jubilee: 1871. 1879

The Jubilee: 1871. 1879

Brown University

Printed in three columns divided by single lines within double-line border on all pages. Includes accounts of the Jubilee Singers and their reception in Europe and America, with excerpts from reviews. Includes poetry. Suggested publication date from advertisement for concert in Amherst, Mass. Jan. 13, 1880.

The Jubilee: 1871. 1879

The Jubilee: 1871. 1879

Brown University

Printed in three columns divided by single lines within double-line border on all pages. Includes accounts of the Jubilee Singers and their reception in Europe and America, with excerpts from reviews. Includes poetry. Suggested publication date from advertisement for concert in Amherst, Mass. Jan. 13, 1880.

The Jubilee: 1871. 1879

The Jubilee: 1871. 1879

Brown University

Printed in three columns divided by single lines within double-line border on all pages. Includes accounts of the Jubilee Singers and their reception in Europe and America, with excerpts from reviews. Includes poetry. Suggested publication date from advertisement for concert in Amherst, Mass. Jan. 13, 1880.

The Jubilee: 1871. 1879

The Jubilee: 1871. 1879

Brown University

Printed in three columns divided by single lines within double-line border on all pages. Includes accounts of the Jubilee Singers and their reception in Europe and America, with excerpts from reviews. Includes poetry. Suggested publication date from advertisement for concert in Amherst, Mass. Jan. 13, 1880.

The joys

The joys

Brown University

White paper printed in red. At end of text: New Year Greetings, 1945. May Sarton, 5 Channing Place, Cambridge, Massachusetts. First line: In Italy we saw it: an old man bent low.

The Joymakers' theme song

1 broadsheet. Printed in white on black card. At head of text: WNEW - daily - 11:30 a.m. At end of text: You and your "Aunt Tenna" ..

The jolly young waterman

Within triple line border with corner ornaments. Between vertically printed titles cut of couple entering boat. At end of text: Sold wholesale and retail at Mather's Song and Toy Book Depot, 42 Division-Street, N.Y.

The jolly young waterman

Within triple line border with corner ornaments. Between vertically printed titles cut of couple entering boat. At end of text: Sold wholesale and retail at Mather's Song and Toy Book Depot, 42 Division-Street, N.Y.

The jolly young waterman

Within triple line border with corner ornaments. Between vertically printed titles cut of couple entering boat. At end of text: Sold wholesale and retail at Mather's Song and Toy Book Depot, 42 Division-Street, N.Y.