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 as sung by the Luca Family, at their concerts

Printed in two columns divided by single lines within varied ornamental borders on all pages. At head of text on page [1] vignette of lyre. Includes text of four songs. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Songs

Songs

Brown University

Page [1] within double line border, pages [2, 4] within single line borders with corner ornaments. Contains 5 songs.

Song. Oh, Jamie brewed a bowl o' punch

Pages [2] and [3] blank. Embossed in upper right, same paper as his "Cruiskeen Lan", published ca. 1860, in the Hay Broadsides Collection (HB24229)

Song. Oh, Jamie brewed a bowl o' punch

Pages [2] and [3] blank. Embossed in upper right, same paper as his "Cruiskeen Lan", published ca. 1860, in the Hay Broadsides Collection (HB24229)

Song: Strike me a note of sweet degrees

First line same as subtitle. Poetry in three eight-line stanzas printed on grey linen weave paper; first published in 1890 Atlantic Monthly. At end of text: - T.W. Parsons. / December Atlantic.

Song: Come, saints and sinners, hear me tell

by Daniel Heath. Poetry in 8 numbered five-line stanzas. To be sung to the tune: Cork Leg, or Green Mountain Yankee. First line same as sub-title. Printed in two columns divided by single line within ornamental border. Possible range of dates suggested by internal evidence.

Song: adapted from Auld Lang Syne

Poetry in four four-line stanzas with chorus. At head of text: Sung at the celebration by The Maine Historical Society, of the eighty-fourth birthday of Professor Alpheus S. Packard, of Bowdoin College, December 23, 1882. Type-signed at end: Edward H. Elwell.

Song written for the senior class of 1837

By John Weiss, Jr. Worcester, Mass. Text within border of type ornaments, printed in two columns divided by double line. To be sung to the tune: Auld lang syne. Text of song in seven four-line stanzas with varied four-line chorus. Imprint information from internal evidence.