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

Song sheet, 1933

Song sheet, 1933

Brown University

Broadsheet, containing 28 numbered songs, chiefly extracts from longer versions. Without music. At head of title: Property of the Central Club of Jamaica Plain. Printed in two columns on thick paper. First line of first song (America): My country, 'tis of thee.

Song sheet, 1933

Song sheet, 1933

Brown University

Broadsheet, containing 28 numbered songs, chiefly extracts from longer versions. Without music. At head of title: Property of the Central Club of Jamaica Plain. Printed in two columns on thick paper. First line of first song (America): My country, 'tis of thee.

Song sheet

Song sheet

Brown University

Broadsheet printed in blue and red in two columns. At center of title vignette of seal inscribed around rim: War Camp Community Service. "Collected by the following Army and Navy Song Leaders: John B. Archer ... John P. Marshall ... Herbert W. Smith ..." [Published] "for the Army and Navy Department Commissions on Training Camp Activities." Includes text of 21 numbered patriotic and other songs, beginning with The star-spangled banner.

Song program: compliments of the Outlet Company

Broadsheet printed on white paper in two columns divided by single lines on recto and verso. At head of title on recto vignette of American eagle with spread wings. Contains 20 songs, beginning with: Star spangled banner (First line: Oh, say can you see, by the dawn's early light) Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence; World War I songs present.

Song poems

Song poems

Brown University

by J.S. Born. 1 broadsheet. Broadsheet folded into thirds to create six pages. Title page with line ornamentation at top and bottom; illustration of lyre between title and author statement. Cover title includes statement: Copyright 1916.

Song poems

Song poems

Brown University

by J.S. Born. 1 broadsheet. Broadsheet folded into thirds to create six pages. Title page with line ornamentation at top and bottom; illustration of lyre between title and author statement. Cover title includes statement: Copyright 1916.

Song poems

Song poems

Brown University

by J.S. Born. 1 broadsheet. Broadsheet folded into thirds to create six pages. Title page with line ornamentation at top and bottom; illustration of lyre between title and author statement. Cover title includes statement: Copyright 1916.

Song on the Johnstown disaster

Poetry. Oak spray beneath title. Poem in four numbered stanzas. Mentions fifteen thousand dollars raised in Providence for flood relief. Imprint date from date of flood. At end of text: This song must not be sung by professionals without permission from James H. Nolan, Olneyville, R.I. First line: Kind friends just pay attention and listen unto me.

Song of victory

Song of victory

Brown University

words and music by May Jackson Carter. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Dedicated to: Donald Augustus Carter. Cover illustration: soldiers parading through town.

Song of victory

Song of victory

Brown University

Tune: Columbia, the gem of the ocean. At end of text: ... by G.S.

Song of triumph

Song of triumph

Brown University

Song welcomes Delia A. Webster and refers to her imprisonment for helping slaves. Song welcomes Delia A. Webster and refers to her imprisonment for helping slaves. Within ornamental border. To be sung to the tune: America. At head of text: The following lines are respectfully dedicated to Miss Delia A. Webster, the heroine of Free Labor in Kentucky, who has suffered in loathsome Southern prisons for her love of crushed humanity. Text of song in four seven-line stanzas. At end of text: P.S. Suggested range of publication dates because song seems to refer to the Civil War and the emancipation of American slaves in lines, "Oppressor's days were short, God has against them fought, Their idol, He hath brought To Freedom's shrine."

Song of the volunteers

Song of the volunteers

Brown University

By E.W. Locke, Army Poet and Balladist. Text of song in six numbered four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Glory, glory hallelujah! Cut of eagle on shield below title. Printed area measures: 30.6 x 9.4 cm. Imprint information from attached second work: Entered according to act of Congress, by E.W. Locke, in the year 1862, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Maine. Printed on single sheet with author's McClellan is our man; intended to be separated.

Song of the privateer

Song of the privateer

Brown University

by Quien Sabe? Poetry in five five-line stanzas with chorus, beginning: Then let each jolly tar, printed in black within double-line border. Cut of sailing vessel between title and author's name. At end of text: Baltimore, Oct. 10, 1861. According to A. P. Ellinger's Southern war poetry of the Civil War, "Quien Sabe?" is one of N. G. Ridgely's pseudonyms.

Song of the Oakland bridge

by John Phoenix. French-fold; printed on double page in blue and black. Sewn into lettered blue paper wrapper. Cover title. "First printed in the San Francisco herald, May 4, 1856; reprinted by the Grabhorn Press from their edition of Phoeœnixiana." Issued as a 1938 New Year greeting by Marjory Bridge and Francis Peloubet Farquhar. Without music.

Song of the New World

Song of the New World

Brown University

by Angela Morgan. Poetry. Printed in blue. Date suggested because of similar blue-lettered broadsides of poems from her books published in 1936. First line: I sing the song of a new Dawn waking.