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

Songs: Oh! no, I'll never mention him

Girl laments being parted from her former lover. Girl laments being parted from her former lover. Subtitle from first line. Printed on silk in two columns divided by line of type ornaments within border of type ornaments. Text of two songs, each in four numbered eight-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Songs: Lost Johnstown, and The ruined valley Conemaugh

By Rev. F. H. Swender. Page [4] blank. Page [1] within mourning border. Words of two songs, the first sung to the tune "Way down upon the Swanee River" and the second to "Poor Nellie Gray." Publication date suggested from the date of the Johnstown Flood.

Songs we like to sing

Songs we like to sing

Brown University

1 broadsheet; folded into thirds to create 6 pages. Cover title; with red and blue YMCA logo between title and imprint. Fourteen numbered songs; printed in blue.

Songs to be sung at the Stadium Class Day

Broadsheet. Text of three songs. Suggested publication date from ms. notation on Brown University copy and date of stadium ticket acquired with Brown University copy.

Songs of United Germany

Songs of United Germany

Brown University

by Henry O'Rielly. Page [4] blank. Cover title. At head of title vignette of Jupiter brandishing thunder-bolt; below, clasped hands. At foot of title: (From the New-York Tribune) Below colophon on page [1]: Entered according to the act of Congress ... September, 1870.

Songs of the war

Songs of the war

Brown University

by R. Hill, a discharged soldier. First Wisconsin Heavy Artillery. Within border of type ornaments.

Songs of the Tennesseeans

Within ornamented line border. Dated by internal evidence. On verso: Two autographed verses in different hands. Last verse signed: Andy Moon; dated February 2nd, 1874.

Songs of the pioneers

Songs of the pioneers

Brown University

Page [4] blank. At head of text; [Note.--The following song composed by Mr. S.A. Clarke, ... was sung by Prof. T.H. Crawford, ... at the Pioneer re-union of 1878.]

Songs of the heart!

Songs of the heart!

Brown University

by R. Thayer. Printed in two columns divided by single line within ornamental border. At head of text of first song prose explanation of Thayer's addition of two stanzas to J.H. Payne's Home, sweet home. At end of second column: The sentiments of this song have been suggested by the sufferings of the poor, occasioned by the great snow-storm of January 17, 1867.

Songs of the Allies: "A singing army is unbeatable."

Printed in red and blue on heavy white paper folded to create [6] pages; within double-line borders. On page [1] cut of American eagle with shield and French and British flags; on pages [2]-[5] cuts of British, U.S., French and Italian flags; on last page reproduction of photograph of three sailors. Suggested range of publication dates from dates of United States participation in World War I.

Songs of the allegory

Songs of the allegory

Brown University

Contains fourteen choruses and songs, beginning with: The Pilgrim fathers and including Union songs of the Civil War. References to ode by flower girls and semi-chorus of states suggest use in a pageant. Date from internal evidence.

Songs of Class Day, Tuesday, July 9th, 1872

Within single line border. Cover title. At head of text: Sung at the reading of the histories. Contains text of five songs, beginning with Lauriger Horatius in Latin.

Songs issued for the Rhode Island State Federation of Women's Clubs

Printed in one and two columns. Contains texts of eighteen numbered songs, beginning with The star-spangled banner. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence, including the presence of World War I songs, and acquisition date of Brown University copy.