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

Shovellin' coal

Shovellin' coal

Brown University

words and music by Jean C. Havez For voice and piano Caption title Sung by: Lew Dockstader Advertisements for other music: p. [2], [6] Cover illustration: drawing of grapevines / De Takacs; photographs of Lew Dockstader with and without blackface Library's cop. 1 inscribed: F.E.A. Advertisement, p. [6]: cop. 1, "Cheynne"

Shout breddern, sisters sing!:: Ethiopian song and chorus

words by Reginald P. Forrester; music by Frank Addis Kent For voice and piano Cover title Advertisement for other songs: cop. 2, p. [6] Library's copy 1 has stamp on cover: Stephen L. Breed, 15 Newhall Street, Lynn, Mass.

Shopping in Heaven

Shopping in Heaven

Brown University

On page [1]: In remembrance of Marion Morse Mackaye... "A few copies of this leaflet, with bookplate of Marion MacKaye designed by Gordon Craig, have been printed, in July, 1939, for her friends." A poem.

Shooting at a mark

Shooting at a mark

Brown University

By Julia Colman. At head of title cut of boy shooting an arrow at a target while other children watch. Caption title. In upper right corner of page [1]: No. 108. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Shoot the Chutes open again

Poetry. Printed in two columns. Words of four songs advertising a water slide. Approximate date derived from the tune Sweet Marie, new and popular in 1893.