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.
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Items in this collection

Salvation Sal: song

Salvation Sal: song

Brown University

lyric by Raymond B. Egan ; music by Richard A. Whiting. For voice and piano. Caption title. From musical revue: The overseas revue (Tout suite Elizabet), a war-time version of the post-war revue, Toot sweet, starring Elizabeth Brice. Advertisement for "Just 'round the corner", "Rose of Verdun" and 2 other songs: p. [6 Cover illustration: drawing of actress in costume / F.E. Muire.

Salvation lassie of mine

words and music by Jack Caddigan and Chick Story. For voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for this song on sound disc and player piano roll: p. 2-3. Advertisement for "Dreaming sweet dreams of Mother" and another song: p. [4 Cover illustration: photograph of woman in Salvation Army uniform; drawing of soldiers entering Salvation Army hut. Also published for: band or orchestra, male or mixed voices. First line of text: They say it's in heaven that all angels dwell. First line of chorus: A sweet little angel that went o'er the sea.

Salutations for Christmas 1956

from M. A. De Wolfe Howe. Page [4] blank. Illustration (made up of type ornaments) of Christmas tree and stars below title on page [1] Cover title. At head of second poem: For the eighty-seventh birthday of my brother Wallis, 12 September 1955.

Salutation to our flag

Salutation to our flag

Brown University

Within double line border. At head of text: Dedicated to his excellency. Rear-admiral James H. Oliver, Governor of the American Virgin Islands.

Salamanca: a prophecy

Salamanca: a prophecy

Brown University

Printed in orange and brown on heavy wheat-colored paper in postcard format. Text superimposed on wood-engraving by Michael Manfredo of turtle and whale. Poem in two numbered sections. Type-signed at end of poem: Jerome Rothenberg. Seneca nation. Salamanca, New York 21.11.74.

Saint Paul Lodge, F.A.M., Ayer, Mass

Printed on heavy paper in two columns divided by double lines within double-line border with ornamental corners. At head of text: Peterborough. To be sung after Master is installed. To be sung to the tune: Peterborough. Text of Masonic hymn in three sections; the second, to be sung after the Sen. Warden is installed, begins: O Warden, with thy Level Poised; the third, to be sung after the Jun. Warden is installed, begins: O Warden, with the Plumb upraised. At end of text outside lower border: John H. Turner, Printer, Ayr [i.e. Ayer], Mass. Suggested publication date from pencil notation on Brown Unoversity copy.

Saint Christopher

Saint Christopher

Brown University

Thomas S. Jones, Jr. Sonnet. Caption title. Printed in green and black on the outside of folded leaf. "Christmas 1927."

Saint Christopher

Saint Christopher

Brown University

Thomas S. Jones, Jr. Sonnet. Caption title. Printed in green and black on the outside of folded leaf. "Christmas 1927."

Sailor's song

Sailor's song

Brown University

To be sung to the tune: Indian chief. Text of hymn in nine four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Sail, sail thy best, ship of Democracy

Page [2] blank. French folded; printed on double leaves. Printed in black and green on heavy paper. At head of title cut of sailing ship in green. Title from first line. On page [3]: A Christmas greeting from Alice and Rollo Silver / 1953. Colophon on p. [4]: Printed by the Stinehour Press, Lunenburg, Vermont. Type-signed at end of poem: Walt Whitman.

Said a little red rooster to a little brown hen

Poetry. Printed in in brown on tan leather in postcard format, within brown border with wavy inner edge. At left of text illustration of hen, at right rooster, both with red combs and wattles and green wings and tails. Title from first lines. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence, especially the absence of zip code on ms. address of Brown University copy.

Saga of Israel

Saga of Israel

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Pages [1,4] within single line border.

Safely home this Christmas time

Printed on light gray paper within single-line border with corner ornaments. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Safely home

Safely home

Brown University

Printed on glossy peach paper on reddish-brown ground within border of type ornaments. Poem in seven four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and date of acquisition of Brown University copy.

S.E. Glasgow (E.T. Dooley, photograph 6)

Headshot of S.E. Glasgow, American vaudeville performer (male): In formal attire (tuxedo, vest, and tie); Fresno, California; undated Headshot of S.E. Glasgow, American vaudeville performer (male): In formal attire (tuxedo, vest, and tie); Fresno, California; 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/)