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.
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Items in this collection

Temperance songs

Temperance songs

Brown University

Poetry. Words of songs printed in three columns divided by single lines; short multi-line divider at head of text. At end of text: Printed and for sale at the Morning Star Office. There was a newspaper called The Morning star and temperance advocate in Boston in the 1840's; internal evidence supports an 1840s publication date.

Temperance songs

Temperance songs

Brown University

Poetry. Words of songs printed in three columns divided by single lines; short multi-line divider at head of text. At end of text: Printed and for sale at the Morning Star Office. There was a newspaper called The Morning star and temperance advocate in Boston in the 1840's; internal evidence supports an 1840s publication date.

Temperance songs

Temperance songs

Brown University

Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by single line within border of type ornaments. In lower margin, outside border: Advocate Job Office, Claremont, N.H.--J. Weber, Proprietor. Date from dates of newspaper, Claremont Advocate, and appearance of item.

Temperance song: Our forefathers - Heaven bless them!

Title from caption and first line. Poetry in ten stanzas printed within border of type ornaments. At head of text: Published by J. Adams. Double printing with identical text but differing type ornament borders; meant to be separated. Separated, the broadsides would measure 30 x 12 cm; the printed areas measure 26.6 x 9.0 and 26.7 x 8.9 respectively. Possible range of dates suggested by borders.

Temperance song: Our forefathers - Heaven bless them!

Title from caption and first line. Poetry in ten stanzas printed within border of type ornaments. At head of text: Published by J. Adams. Printed area measures: 26.2 x 9.0. Possible range of publication dates suggested by border of type ornaments. Copy same edition as second broadside on sheet of two broadsides with same title, meant to be separated, in Brown University's Broadsides Collection (cf. HB22516)

Temperance song: Our forefathers - Heaven bless them!

Title from caption and first line. Poetry in ten stanzas printed within border of type ornaments. At head of text: Published by J. Adams. Printed area measures: 26.2 x 9.0. Possible range of publication dates suggested by border of type ornaments. Copy same edition as second broadside on sheet of two broadsides with same title, meant to be separated, in Brown University's Broadsides Collection (cf. HB22516)

Temperance song

Temperance song

Brown University

In seven stanzas. At end of text: Timothy Coughlin, East Cambridge. Tune: Air, Father Tom O'Neil. Printed area: 20 x 5 cm. First line: The Father Mathew Temperance Men.

Temperance ode

Temperance ode

Brown University

Poem in four numbered seven-line stanzas with varied two-line chorus usually beginning: O, ne'er may the sons of Columbia deplore. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Temperance hymns: Bring this sheet of hymns to all temperance meetings

Broadsheet. Poetry. Printed in three columns. Place from description of first song; date from appearance of item and because Washingtonian Temperance Society mentioned was founded in 1840. Cold water melodies compiled by J. Pierpont, 1842 ascribes Shall e'er, cold water be forgot to Pierpont and The drink that's in the drunkard's bowl to H. Reed. First line of first hymn: Friends of Temperance, one and all.

Temperance hymns

Temperance hymns

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Printed in four columns. At head of text: [Be particular to bring this sheet of hymns to all temperance meetings you attend.] Contains 12 songs. First song: The Temperance Reform, as sung by the Washington Total Abstinence Society at Temperance Hall in Concord, N.H. First line: What means all this great commotion, motion, motion.

Temperance hymns

Temperance hymns

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Printed in four columns. At head of text: [Be particular to bring this sheet of hymns to all temperance meetings you attend.] Contains 12 songs. First song: The Temperance Reform, as sung by the Washington Total Abstinence Society at Temperance Hall in Concord, N.H. First line: What means all this great commotion, motion, motion.

Temperance hymn

Temperance hymn

Brown University

Within ornamental border. At head of text: Dedicated to the New Testament Total Abstinence Society.

Temperance hymn

Temperance hymn

Brown University

To be sung to the tune: Auld lang syne. Poetry. Within border of type ornaments. Poem in six stanzas. Date from appearance of item. First line: Can we forget the gloomy time.

Temperance ball

Temperance ball

Brown University

Invites Whigs and Democrats to join the Cold Water Army in the temperance cause. Invites Whigs and Democrats to join the Cold Water Army in the temperance cause. By Mr. J.M. Newson, of Lancaster, Pa. To be sung to the tune: Rosin the bow. Text of song in eleven four-line stanzas with varied four-line chorus beginning: And roll on the Temperance Ball. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Tell that to the marines!

lyric by Bernard S. Barron ; music by Gus Edwards. March for voice and piano. Caption title.

Tell that to the Marines

words by Harold Atteridge ; music by Jean Schwartz and Al. Jolson. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Introduced by Al Jolson in Sinbad. Advertisement for "I cannot bear to say goodbye": p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Al Jolson ; cover design printed in brown ink / Barbelle.

Tell that to the Marines

words by Harold Atteridge ; music by Jean Schwartz and Al. Jolson. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Introduced by Al Jolson in Sinbad. Advertisement for "I cannot bear to say goodbye": p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Al Jolson ; cover design printed in brown ink / Barbelle.

Tell that to the Marines

words by Harold Atteridge ; music by Jean Schwartz and Al. Jolson. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Introduced by Al Jolson in Sinbad. Advertisement for "I cannot bear to say goodbye": p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Al Jolson ; cover design printed in brown ink / Barbelle.

Tell me ye leaves

Tell me ye leaves

Brown University

At head of text: The following lines by the late Mrs. E.E. Phillips ..

Tell me not in mournful numbers

Title from first line. Within border of type ornaments. Cut of woman's head at head of text. Advertisement for "Martha Washington" Hair Restorer. Simonds & Co., Proprietors, Fitzwilliam, N.H. A parody of A psalm of life, by H.W. Longfellow.

Tell me love's story again

Printed in red, brown and green on recto and black on verso on heavy paper in postcard format. Below title caricature of woman hitting seated man on head with a bat; in balloon beside women: Viper to propose to me; in balloon beside man: Z-wing blang and I only asked to hold her hand. Below illustration five lines of words and music of refrain of song. Colophon at end: By permission of Copyright MCMVI by the York Music Co. Albert Von Tilzer Mgr. 40 West 28th St. New York. "No. 4600 music series"--Verso.