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

That old three ring circus

Louise Pfaffman. Pages [3]-[4] blank. Issued stapled into lettered tan paper wrapper. Caption title. Poem. Offprint from Grecourt review. Suggested publication date from donor.

That name

That name

Brown University

At beginning of text: Lines suggested on hearing .. At end of text: J.H.W.

That love is purest and most true

Within single-line border; cross at head of text. Title from first line. Text of hymn in three four-line stanzas. In lower left corner: (48) In lower margin: Church of the Transfiguration, New York.

That little toad, or, The serpent in the cider

By Mrs. Lucy E. Sanford. At head of title cut of three children picking flowers. Caption title. In upper right corner of page [1]: No. 119. Includes two-line poem. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

That little German band

That little German band

Brown University

words by Benjamin Hapgood Burg ; music by Ivan Caryll. For voice and piano. Caption title. From musical: The canary, starring Julia Sanderson and Joseph Cawthorn. Advertisement for "Arabian nights": p. [6] Cover illustration: photographs of Julia Sanderson and Joseph Cawthorn.

That little German band

That little German band

Brown University

words by Benjamin Hapgood Burt ; music by Ivan Caryll. For voice and piano. Caption title. From musical: The canary, starring Julia Sanderson and Joseph Cawthorn. Advertisement for "Arabian nights": p. [6] Cover illustration: photographs of Julia Sanderson and Joseph Cawthorn.

That leak

That leak

Brown University

Printed on glossy white paper on recto within curvilinear border at top and sides; verso is pink blotting paper. Poem in four four-line stanzas. At end of text: Check your water bills and let us check your plumbing. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

That is a man of ten thousand

Poem in two eleven-line stanzas with one-line chorus: Tol lol de rol. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

That dear old flivver

That dear old flivver

Brown University

King A. Woodburn. Printed in colors on heavy white paper in postcard format; text on recto in black in two columns, on verso in blue. At head of title colored illustration of family posed around old-fashioned automobile. Poem in six four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

That comical Brown's new series of comic and sentimental songs: as sung by him at his entertainments throughout the c...

Broadsheet printed in two and four columns within border of type ornament sections. Title on verso: That comical Brown's songs.--Continued. Words and music of twelve popular songs, beginning with You can't play that on me; two songs contain prose passages. Words and/or music of seven songs noted as by Brown; authors of others not named. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Thanksgiving, 1864

Thanksgiving, 1864

Brown University

Poetry. Page [4] blank. With mourning border edge. At end of text: "Respectfully inscribed to the family of Professor Silliman ... Julina N. Bail. New Haven, Nov. 30, 1864."

Thanksgiving--1904

Thanksgiving--1904

Brown University

Printed in brown on heavy white paper with embossed ornamental scalloped border. At head of title illustration of landing of Pilgrims. Poem in two eight-line stanzas. At end of text: Compliments of [blank] Teacher.

Thanksgiving night thoughts: Suggested by a recent poem

At head of text: Too good for any but lawyers, or very honest men to read. Poem in four eight-line stanzas spoken by Mr. Arnold, interspersed with passages in prose and verse spoken by others. Author's name and publication date from contemporary ms. inscription on Brown University copy. The "recent poem" referred to is probably Mr. Arnold said by Rathbone Gardner published in 1884.

Thanksgiving hymns

Thanksgiving hymns

Brown University

Texts of three songs for a family reunion at Thanksgiving. Place and date approximation suggested because similar hymns singed A.H.P. are found in broadsides entitled Thwing family Thanksgiving at James A. Whipple's, Worcester, Mass., November 30, 1848 and Thwing family Thanksgiving at Minerva W. and William Knight's, Uxbridge, Mass.

Thanksgiving 1905

Thanksgiving 1905

Brown University

At head of title: Reprinted from the Narragansett Times of November 14, 1905. Poetry and prose.