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

Stephen Collins Foster

Stephen Collins Foster

Brown University

Fourteen-line poem. At end of text: Dedicated to Josiah Kirby Lilly, founder of the Foster Memorial, Indianapolis, Indiana by William Kimberley Palmer. Chicopee, Massachusetts U.S.A. March 1935, A.D.

Step aside you niggers

Step aside you niggers

Brown University

words by Al. Nicholson; music by S.B. Miles; arranged by C.L. Maurer For voice and piano Caption title Advertisement for another song: p. [6]

Stellosophical peace cards

Broadsheet printed in red and purple on heavy white paper. On recto illustration of praying hands in heart-shaped frame. Prayer on recto, poem on verso. Published by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Crafts Brady. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.

Stay in your own back yard:: pickaninny ballad

lyric by Karl Kennett; music by Lyn Udall For voice and piano Cover title Advertisements for other songs: p. [2 and 6-8] Also published for: male and female quartet and mixed voices. "Price 40 cents Net" Library's copy has stamp on p. [1-6]: Alex Kramer

Stay down here where you belong

words and music by Irving Berlin. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Along came Ruth": p. [6] Cover illustration: drawing of the devil showing his son the horrors of war / Al. W. Barbelle. Photograph of Irving Berlin: p. [6]

State House, March 14, 1874

Within mourning border. Pages [2]-[4] blank except for borders. Invitation to Sumner's funeral in King's Chapel Mar. 16, 1874.

State House, March 14, 1874

Within mourning border. Pages [2]-[4] blank except for borders. Invitation to Sumner's funeral in King's Chapel Mar. 16, 1874.

State House, March 14, 1874

Within mourning border. Pages [2]-[4] blank except for borders. Invitation to Sumner's funeral in King's Chapel Mar. 16, 1874.

Start and goal

Start and goal

Brown University

Printed in red and green on recto, gray on verso on heavy paper in postcard format. Rubricated initial block. Typesigned at end of poem: Christina G. Rossetti. In lower margin on recto: Copyrighted 1907. D. Hillson.

Stark weather

Stark weather

Brown University

Printed in black and brown on tan paper. At lower right illustration of house, barn and sheds. Poem in one stanza of ten lines and one of seven. Type-signed below illustration: William Trowbridge. In lower right corner: JM. ER. Tightrope VI. Issued as part of Set no. 162 with other poetry broadsides handset and printed by Jo Mish and Ed Rayher in periodical Tightrope, vol. 6.

Star spangled banner

Star spangled banner

Brown University

Printed in green. Includes words of two songs. Printers' union label in lower margin.

Star of the morning's dawn

A poem honoring Andrew Carnegie. Printed within art nouveau style line border. Printed area: 24.2 x 13.4 cm. At head of title: Poem; at end of text: E. Symth Jones. At foot of sheet: Copyrighted 1907 by E. Smyth Jones. All rights reserved. First line: A star has risen in the East.

Star of the morning's dawn

A poem honoring Andrew Carnegie. Printed within art nouveau style line border. Printed area: 24.2 x 13.4 cm. At head of title: Poem; at end of text: E. Symth Jones. At foot of sheet: Copyrighted 1907 by E. Smyth Jones. All rights reserved. First line: A star has risen in the East.

Star of the morning's dawn

A poem honoring Andrew Carnegie. Printed within art nouveau style line border. Printed area: 24.2 x 13.4 cm. At head of title: Poem; at end of text: E. Symth Jones. At foot of sheet: Copyrighted 1907 by E. Smyth Jones. All rights reserved. First line: A star has risen in the East.

Star Island (Isles of Shoals)

William Plumer Fowler. Pages [2]-[3] blank. Printed on heavy white paper. Sonnet. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Stanzas

Stanzas

Brown University

Within double line border.

Stanzas

Stanzas

Brown University

Within double line border.

Stanford Memorial Church

French fold; printed on double leaves. Cover title. Some initials printed in red ink. Photograph of church interior tipped in.