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

Somewhere in France: (is the Lily)

words by Philander Johnson ; music by Joseph E. Howard. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Pages 1-2 are unnumbered. Sung by: Jos. E. Howard. Variant advertisements. War slogans: p. [2]-3. Cover illustration: woman's face, fleur-de-lys, battle scene / Starmer; photograph of Joseph E. Howard.

Somewhere in France: (is the Lily)

words by Philander Johnson ; music by Joseph E. Howard. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Pages 1-2 are unnumbered. Sung by: Jos. E. Howard. Variant advertisements. War slogans: p. [2]-3. Cover illustration: woman's face, fleur-de-lys, battle scene / Starmer; photograph of Joseph E. Howard.

Somewhere in France is Daddy

composed by The Great Howard. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for this song and two other songs: p. [6] Cover illustration: photograph of The Great Howard in uniform; drawing of soldiers in trench and woman with a child on her knees.

Somewhere in France is Daddy

composed by The Great Howard. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for this song and two other songs: p. [6] Cover illustration: photograph of The Great Howard in uniform; drawing of soldiers in trench and woman with a child on her knees.

Somewhere in France

Somewhere in France

Brown University

Within single line border printed in blue with rubricated initial.

Somewhere

Somewhere

Brown University

Within single line border.

Somewhere

Somewhere

Brown University

Within single line border.

Sometimes, when I bin bad

Poetry. Printed in brown on tan paper in postcard format within single-line border at left, top and bottom on recto. At head of title and at right and below drawing signed K.P.B. of flowering vines and clouds. Title from first line of untitled poem in two four-line stanzas. At end of text facsimile signature: James Whitcomb Riley. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and because another similar Riley post card (The prayer perfect, HB39072) acquired with Brown University copies was mailed in 1913.

Sometime

Sometime

Brown University

Author's name not on item.

Sometime

Sometime

Brown University

Within ornamented double line border.

Something new. An acrostic on the Lord's prayer

Printed in three columns divided by single lines within border of type ornaments at top and bottom, double line at each side. At end of text: O.K. Nashua, 1843. Initial letters of each line form complete text of Lord's prayer. First line: our Father in Heaven, to thee we come.

Somebody's boy: song

Somebody's boy: song

Brown University

lyric by J.E. Dempsey ; music by Joseph A. Burke. For voice and piano. Caption title. War slogans: p. [4] Advertisement for other music: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of soldier waving / Starmer.

Somebody's boy: song

Somebody's boy: song

Brown University

lyric by J.E. Dempsey ; music by Joseph A. Burke. For voice and piano. Caption title. War slogans: p. [4] Advertisement for other music: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of soldier waving / Starmer.