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

Serenaders (Bell, photograph 3)

Full-length, group image of Serenaders, African American vaudeville troupe: Memebers in various positions; in costume (men mostly in short-sleeved white shirts, striped pants, striped overalls, suspenders, straw hats and leather shoes; women in plaid dresses with white collars, and flat shoes); New York; undated Full-length, group image of Serenaders, African American vaudeville troupe: Memebers in various positions; in costume (men mostly in short-sleeved white shirts, striped pants, striped overalls, suspenders, straw hats and leather shoes; women in plaid dresses with white collars, and flat shoes); New York; undated Digital object made available by : Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)

Serenaders (Bell, photograph 2)

Full-length, group image of Serenaders, African American vaudeville troupe: Individuals members in line formation; dancing; in costume (men in short-sleeved white shirts, striped pants, striped overalls, suspenders, straw hats and leather shoes; women in plaid dresses with white collars, and flat shoes); New York; undated Full-length, group image of Serenaders, African American vaudeville troupe: Individuals members in line formation; dancing; in costume (men in short-sleeved white shirts, striped pants, striped overalls, suspenders, straw hats and leather shoes; women in plaid dresses with white collars, and flat shoes); New York; undated Digital object made available by : Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)

Serenaders (Bell, photograph 1)

Full-length, group image of Serenaders, African American vaudeville troupe: Individuals in group divided into four male-female couples; dancing; in costume (men in dark suit jackets, light-colored pants, whites shirts, ties and hats; women in short-sleeved, ruffled, appliqued gowns, and mid-heel leather shoes); New York; undated Full-length, group image of Serenaders, African American vaudeville troupe: Individuals in group divided into four male-female couples; dancing; in costume (men in dark suit jackets, light-colored pants, whites shirts, ties and hats; women in short-sleeved, ruffled, appliqued gowns, and mid-heel leather shoes); New York; undated Digital object made available by : Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)

Senescentia

Senescentia

Brown University

Poem in four eight-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of text: Samuel Ward. Suggested publication date because author's Lyrical recreations was published in 1883.

Send me away with a smile

words & music by Louis Weslyn and Al. Piantadosi. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for "Tell the last rose of summer, good bye": p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Rita Gould; drawing of woman waving to soldier / Starmer, printed in green ink.

Send me away with a smile

words & music by Louis Weslyn and Al. Piantadosi. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for "Tell the last rose of summer, good bye": p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Rita Gould; drawing of woman waving to soldier / Starmer, printed in green ink.

Send me away with a smile

words & music by Louis Weslyn and Al. Piantadosi. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for "Tell the last rose of summer, good bye": p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Rita Gould; drawing of woman waving to soldier / Starmer, printed in green ink.

Send me away with a smile

words & music by Louis Weslyn and Al. Piantadosi. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for "Tell the last rose of summer, good bye": p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Rita Gould; drawing of woman waving to soldier / Starmer, printed in green ink.

Send me away with a smile

words & music by Louis Weslyn and Al. Piantadosi. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for "Tell the last rose of summer, good bye": p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Rita Gould; drawing of woman waving to soldier / Starmer, printed in green ink.

Send me a rose from homeland: song

words and music by J.F. Cooke. March for voice and piano in A♭major (No. 1) Cover title. Dedicated to: John Philip Sousa. Advertisement for other songs: p. [6] Also published in B♭ major (No. 2)

Send me a picture of baby

words by Bud Green ; music by Archie Gottler. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of soldier writing a letter and envisioning his wife and baby / Barbelle.

Send me a line: when I'm across the ocean

words by Irving Crocker ; music by George L. Cobb. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for a magazine: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of ships at sea and a letter / Starmer.

Send me a curl

Send me a curl

Brown University

words and music by Geoffrey O'Hara. March for voice and piano. Caption title. "To M.S." Additional refrain for men's chorus (TTBB): p. [7] Advertisement for another song: p. [8] Cover illustration: woman knitting and two soldiers / MacGregor Ormiston. Also available in band arrangement and orchestra arrangement.

Send back dear Daddy to me

words by Alexander Sullivan & Harry Tenney ; music by Irving Maslof. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisements for other songs: p. 2-3. Advertisement for "Graveyard Blues" and three other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of girl gazing at picture of soldier / E.E. Walton; photograph of Bailey & Cowan.

Send back dear Daddy to me

words by Alexander Sullivan & Harry Tenney ; music by Irving Maslof. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisements for other songs: p. 2-3. Advertisement for "Graveyard Blues" and three other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of girl gazing at picture of soldier / E.E. Walton; photograph of Bailey & Cowan.

Send back dear Daddy to me

words by Alexander Sullivan & Harry Tenney ; music by Irving Maslof. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisements for other songs: p. 2-3. Advertisement for "Graveyard Blues" and three other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of girl gazing at picture of soldier / E.E. Walton; photograph of Bailey & Cowan.