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

Tary sailor: and Sheffield apprentice

Within border of type ornaments printed in two columns divided by double line. Woodcut of couple embracing captioned: "Then up steps Jack, nimble as a bee ... " at head of first column. At end of text: Sold wholesale & retail, by Hunts & Shaw, No. 2, Mercantile Wharf, and Head of City Wharf, Boston. The firm was listed at above address from 1837 to 1841. Not in Shaw & Shoemaker, Ford, or Checklist of Amer. Imprints. Also issued under title: 'Prentice boy.

Tapioca

Tapioca

Brown University

Edward Warden For voice, piano, and chorus (SATB) Caption title Sung by: R. Bishop Buckley, of Buckleys Serenaders Cover illustration: floral design; lithographed portraits of R. Bishop Buckley[?] "J.H. Bufford's lith. Boston"--Cover

Tall young oyster man, and The young mutineer

Printed in two columns divided by ruled line of advertising with type ornaments on ends: Sold wholesale and retail by L. Deming, No. 61, Hanover St., Boston, and at Middlebury, VT. Deming is know to have been at above address between 1837 and 1840.

Talking to animals

Talking to animals

Brown University

by Barbara Howes. Page [4] blank. Printed in red. "Christmas 1969."

Talk of the peopl[e]

Talk of the peopl[e]

Brown University

Printed in two columns, divided by single line with short triple line divider at head of text. At end of text: S**** R***/ Epping, Aug. 14, 1863. First line: Once on a time, and I should say.

Talk of the peopl[e]

Talk of the peopl[e]

Brown University

Printed in two columns, divided by single line with short triple line divider at head of text. At end of text: S**** R***/ Epping, Aug. 14, 1863. First line: Once on a time, and I should say.

Talk of the peopl[e]

Talk of the peopl[e]

Brown University

Printed in two columns, divided by single line with short triple line divider at head of text. At end of text: S**** R***/ Epping, Aug. 14, 1863. First line: Once on a time, and I should say.

Tale of two drummers, or, How to be saved

Printed on card stock. Poetry and prose. On pages [2]-[3] drawings of St. Peter and devil with two tobacco salesmen. Caption title. On page [1] poem; on pages [2]-[3] prose continuing story begun in poem; on page [4] advertisement. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Tale of two drummers, or, How to be saved

Printed on card stock. Poetry and prose. On pages [2]-[3] drawings of St. Peter and devil with two tobacco salesmen. Caption title. On page [1] poem; on pages [2]-[3] prose continuing story begun in poem; on page [4] advertisement. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Take the loan

Take the loan

Brown University

by Edward Everett Hale. Page [2] blank. Printed on heavt paper. At center of page [1] embossed colored illustration of American flag. At head of text: May, 1861--Written by Edward Everett Hale when the people had to be urged to subscribe for a 7.3 per cent loan. Those who did so are to day millionaires. Poem in eight four-line stanzas. Colophon on page [4]: Presented in the interest of the Third Liberty Loan. H.Y. Stites & Co. Investment Bonds. Industrial Trust Co. Building, Providence. Range of publication dates suggested because the Liberty Loans were authorized to fund American participation in World War I.

Take sky

Take sky

Brown University

by David McCord. 1 broadsheet. French fold folded triptych style into eight. Note on verso: Privately printed for Elfrida De Renne Barrow.

Take me back home again

Take me back home again

Brown University

Text of song in four numbered five-line stanzas with five-line chorus beginning: Take me back to the old home again. At head of text: Copyrighted, 1905, by Jesse J. Reynolds.

Take care of the man in a uniform

words by Jimmie Conlin ; music by Frank Westphal. For voice and piano. Caption title. "Successfully Introduced By Blanche Ring"--Cover. Advertisement for other music: p. 3-[4] Cover illustration: drawing of cherry blossoms / N; photograph of Blanche Ring.

Table monitor of the Shakers at Mt. Lebanon, N.Y

Urges guests to clean their plates without wasting food. Urges guests to clean their plates without wasting food. Printed in black on heavy paper in two columns divided by single line within chain-link type border. At head of text: "Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing may be lost."--Christ. Poem in eight numbered eight-line stanzas. In lower margin below rule within border: Copied by Elizabeth R. Avery, Mt. Lebanon, Shaker Village, June, 1868. Sometimes ascribed to Hannah Brownson or Bronson; cf. version in Gleanings from old Shaker journals, compiled by C.E. Sears (Boston, 1916), p. 258-259.

Table monitor

Table monitor

Brown University

Poem, in 8 stanzas, on the proper use of food, from a Shaker viewpoint. At head of text: Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. Christ. Generally attributed to Hannah Bronson or Brownson; cf. Richmond. Also cf. version in Gleanings from old Shaker journals, compiled by C.E. Sears (Boston, 1916), p. 258-259. Printed area: 20.6 x 14.3 cm. Printed in two columns separated by a double vertical line, within border of type ornaments; the title is separated from the quotation by a short decorative rule. First line: Here then is the pattern.

Table monitor

Table monitor

Brown University

Poem in 8 eight-line stanzas on the proper use of food, from a Shaker viewpoint. Printed in black on white cardbord; in two columns divided by double rule, within double line border. At end of text within border: Shaker Home 1830; in border: Visitor's Dining Room, Shaker Village. Generally attributed to Hannah Bronson or Brownson; cf. Richmond. Also cf. version in Gleanings from old Shaker journals, compiled by C. E. Sears (Boston, 1916), p. 258-259.

Table monitor

Table monitor

Brown University

Printed area measures 16.8 cm. x 13.8 cm. Poem in 8 numbered eight-line stanzas, on the proper use of food, from a Shaker viewpoint. Within border of type ornaments printed in two columns divided by double line. At head of text: Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. - Christ. Internal evidence suggests suggests possible range of date of publication. Generally attributed to Hannah Bronson or Brownson; cf. Richmond. Also cf. version in Gleanings from old Shaker journals, compiled by C. E. Sears (Boston, 1916), p. 258-259.

Table monitor

Table monitor

Brown University

Poem, in 8 stanzas, on the proper use of food, from a Shaker viewpoint. At head of text: Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. Christ. Generally attributed to Hannah Bronson or Brownson; cf. Richmond. Also cf. version in Gleanings from old Shaker journals, compiled by C.E. Sears (Boston, 1916), p. 258-259. Printed area: 20.6 x 14.3 cm. Printed in two columns separated by a double vertical line, within border of type ornaments; the title is separated from the quotation by a short decorative rule. First line: Here then is the pattern.