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 flag on Bunker Hill

The flag on Bunker Hill

Brown University

Within undulating border with corner ornaments. At head of text: By a descendant of a Revolutionary Officer. At end of text: H.S. First line: Unfurl it in the breeze.

The flag on Bunker Hill

The flag on Bunker Hill

Brown University

Within undulating border with corner ornaments. At head of text: By a descendant of a Revolutionary Officer. At end of text: H.S. First line: Unfurl it in the breeze.

The flag of our country

The flag of our country

Brown University

Broadsheet printed in red and blue on heavy paper within ornamental borders; one song text on recto and other on verso. At head of title on recto colored illustration of American flag; in lower corners on recto cuts in blue of medals, one inscribed "Woman's Relief Corps 1883"; on verso cuts in blue of landscape at head of text and of hat hanging from eagle-shaped hook at end of text. Below lower border on verso: Israel S. Smith, Battery D, 1st R.I.

The flag of our country

The flag of our country

Brown University

Broadsheet printed in red and blue on heavy paper within ornamental borders; one song text on recto and other on verso. At head of title on recto colored illustration of American flag; in lower corners on recto cuts in blue of medals, one inscribed "Woman's Relief Corps 1883"; on verso cuts in blue of landscape at head of text and of hat hanging from eagle-shaped hook at end of text. Below lower border on verso: Israel S. Smith, Battery D, 1st R.I.

The flag of our country

The flag of our country

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Within border of type ornaments. Printed in red and blue on recto; in blue on verso. At head of text: Israel S. Smith, Battery D, 1st. R.I.

The flag of our country

The flag of our country

Brown University

Broadsheet printed in red and blue on heavy paper within ornamental borders; one song text on recto and other on verso. At head of title on recto colored illustration of American flag; in lower corners on recto cuts in blue of medals, one inscribed "Woman's Relief Corps 1883"; on verso cuts in blue of landscape at head of text and of hat hanging from eagle-shaped hook at end of text. Below lower border on verso: Israel S. Smith, Battery D, 1st R.I.

The flag of our country

The flag of our country

Brown University

Broadsheet. Within border of type ornaments. Printed in red and blue on recto; in blue on verso. At head of text on recto: illustration of American flag; on verso cut of a landscape. At end of text: Isral S. Smith, Battery D, 1st R.I.

The flag of liberty: patriotic song

Emma Weller French. For voice and piano, in D major. Cover title. "To Our Soldier Lads and Sailor Lads"--Caption. Original key: E♭ major. Cover illustration: U.S. flag / F.

The flag goes by

The flag goes by

Brown University

At head of text cut of American flag on staff. Poem in six stanzas of varying length; first and last stanza differ in fourth line only. At end of text in parentheses: Distributed by Conn. C.A.R. Author's name not on item.

The flag

The flag

Brown University

Within double line border.

The flag

The flag

Brown University

1 broadsheet. At head of text: Dedicated to the 81st Field Artillery.

The five dollar note

The five dollar note

Brown University

Describes spending borrowed five-dollar note on liquor and girls, with the last dollar given to a poor man. Describes spending borrowed five-dollar note on liquor and girls, with the last dollar given to a poor man. Title on page [1] within single-line border superimposed on illustration of man holding large banknote; signed Spedon[?] On pages [2]-[3] printed vertically to be read unfolded words of song in 5 4-line stanzas with 6-line chorus beginning: If you listen to my song, while the funny things I'll quote. In upper right corner of page [1]: P. Lorillard & Co's song album. Advertisement for "Lorillard's Mechanics' Delight tobacco" on page [4] within double-line border; it begins: Lorillard's Mechanics' Delight tobacco is the best chew and smoke. At head of text of song: Sung by Frank Lewis. Suggested range of dates from internal evidence.