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 for workers

Songs for workers

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Printed in two columns divided by single rule.

Songs for the people. No. 1

Attacks Sons of Temperance as hypocrites and "sneaking fellows." Attacks Sons of Temperance as hypocrites and "sneaking fellows." To be sung to the tune: Lucy Long. Within border of type ornament sections. Text of song in five numbered eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus. At end of text within border: North Bridgewater, 1850.

Songs for the golden wedding

Poetry. Pages [1] and [4] blank. Text within double-line border. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Songs for the dinner

Songs for the dinner

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by single line. Text of one song in Latin, two in English.

Songs for the Connecticut Volunteers

1 broadsheet. Date suggested from internal evidence and because second song was published in 1861 in Songs for the Bowdoin School, Boston, under title: Viva l'America.

Songs for socialists: Sing with spirit!

Broadsheet printed in two columns divided by single line. Contains text of eight songs, beginning with Rallying song. Suggested publication date from internal evidence.

Songs for socialists: Sing with spirit!

Broadsheet printed in two columns divided by single line. Contains text of eight songs, beginning with Rallying song. Suggested publication date from internal evidence.

Songs for Presentation Day: June 16th, 1858

Page [4] blank. Page [1] within border of type ornament sections with ornamental corners; pages [2]-[3] printed in two columns divided by single lines. Cover title. Includes text of two Latin and five English songs.

Songs for Presentation Day, June 14, 1854

Title page text within ornamental border. Remaining text printed in two columns divided by single lines. At head of text on page [2]: Presentation Day songs. Contains text of nine songs, beginning with Gaudeamus igitur in Latin.

Songs for Presentation Day, June 13, 1855

Title page text within ornamental border. Remaining text printed in two columns divided by single lines. At head of text on page [2]: Presentation Day songs. Contains text of ten songs, beginning with Gaudeamus in Latin.

Songs for Piedmont Sunday School picnic: July 8, 1892

Printed in two columns divided by single lines. Includes text of twelve numbered songs, beginning with My country 'tis of thee; includes two Union Civil War songs and five temperance songs. Place of publication suggested because of the location of Piedmont Congregational Church in Worcester during the 1920s.

Songs for freemen

Songs for freemen

Brown University

Broadsheet printed in three columns divided by curvilinear lines. At head of text: George Latimer, Publisher. Includes text of 14 numbered anti-slavery songs with names of tunes and some authors' names, beginning with Prayer for the oppressed (First line: With thy pure dews and rains) Suggested place and date of publication from dealer.