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 golden wedding

The golden wedding

Brown University

Printed in gold within single rule. Poem in one six-line stanza and seven four-line stanzas. At end of text, in brackets: N.Y. Evening Post. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The golden wedding

The golden wedding

Brown University

Printed in gold within single rule Poem in one six-line stanza and seven four-line stanzas. At end of text, in brackets: N.Y. Evening Post Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence Hay Broadsds Harris copy: Removed from Gaylord binding; left margin mutilated.

The golden rule: Campaign hymn

Words by Rev. Theron Brown. Poetry. Printed in one and two columns; double rule above text. To be sung to the tune: Auld lang syne. Text of song in five numbered eight-line stanzas with chorus. Date suggested because song defends the gold standard and opposes free silver; no party or candidate is named.

The Glocester team

The Glocester team

Brown University

Poetry. At head of text cut of coach drawn by six horses. Poem in 52 lines supports Democratic candidates Potter, Porter and Pell; attacks Whigs, Know-Nothings and Free Soil partisans and refers to Whig attacks in 1842. Date suggested because Free Soil party organized in 1848 fielded candidates then and in 1852 but not 1856; Samuel Potter represented Glocester in R.I. state legislature in 1849 and 1850. First line: The Democrats of Glocester.

The glitter of wealth & the poem

Printed in black on heavy brown paper; line of type ornaments between rules at top and bottom. Landscape illustration in initial block Title from first lines

The girl that he loves best: (march song)

revised by H.L. Harts and W.F. Garcelon ; [words and music by] Edward W. Corliss. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Reprint. Advertisement for Beal & McCarthy music stores: p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Prof. E.B. Beal. Photograph of William H. McCarthy: p. [4]

The girl of my heart, together with the maid of Lodi, and the country 'squire

Printed in two columns divided by inset of advertising between single line borders. Inset advertisement: Printed and sold by Nathaniel Coverly, Mil[k]-Street, corner of Theatre-Alley, Boston, August 28, 1811. Cut at head of each column. Thomas L. Philbrick, in "British authors of ballads in the Isaiah Thomas collection," Studies in bibliography, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, v. 9, 1957, p. 255-258, attributes first poem to J. Rannie.