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

Rites and Reason Theatre

Rites and Reason Theatre, University Archives Subject Photographs, 1-Q, Brown University Library 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/)

Rites and Reason Theatre

George H. Bass in silhouette. George H. Bass in silhouette. Rites and Reason Theatre, University Archives Subject Photographs, 1-Q, Brown University Library 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/)

Ring out, sweet bells of peace!

lyric by Wm. H. Gardner ; music by Caro Roma. For medium low voice and piano in E♭. Caption title. Advertisements for other songs: p. [2], [7-8] Also published for low voice in D♭, medium high voice in F major, and high voice in G major. Also published for: duet, two part, three part, four part male, female and mixed voices. First line of text: I dreamed a dream of the angels. First line of chorus: Ring out! Ring out!

Ring out, sweet bells of peace

lyric by Wm. H. Gardner ; music by Caro Roma. For medium low voice and piano in E♭ Caption title. Advertisement for "The silent voice" and another song: p. [2] Advertisement for "Teach me to pray" and other songs: p. [7] Advertisement for "Dear little boy of mine": p. [8] Also published for voice in D♭, medium high voice in F major, and high voice in G major.

Ring out, sweet bells of peace

lyric by Wm. H. Gardner ; music by Caro Roma. For medium low voice and piano in E♭ Caption title. Advertisement for "The silent voice" and another song: p. [2] Advertisement for "Teach me to pray" and other songs: p. [7] Advertisement for "Dear little boy of mine": p. [8] Also published for voice in D♭, medium high voice in F major, and high voice in G major.

Ring out, sweet bells of peace

lyric by Wm. H. Gardner ; music by Caro Roma. For high voice and piano in G major. Caption title. "Dedicated To The Glory And Success Of The Allied Nations"--Cover. Advertisements for other songs: p. [2], [7-8] Also published for low voice in D♭, medium low voice in E♭, and medium high voice in F major? Also published for: quartet for all voices, duet, trio-three parts.

Ring out, sweet bells of peace

lyric by Wm. H. Gardner ; music by Caro Roma. For low voice and piano in D♭ Caption title. "Dedicated To The Glory And Success Of The Allied Nations"--Cover. Advertisements for other songs: p. [2], [7-8] Also published for medium low voice in E♭, medium high voice in F major, and high voice in G major. Also published for: duet, quartet for all voices, trio-three parts.

Ring out, sweet bells of peace

lyric by Wm. H. Gardner ; music by Caro Roma. March for medium high voice and piano in F major. Caption title. "Dedicated To The Glory And Success Of The Allied Nations"--Cover. Advertisements for other songs: p. [2], [7-8] Also published for low voice in D♭, for medium low voice in E♭, and high voice in G major. Also published for: duet, quartet for all voices, trio-three parts.

Rimfire distribution

Rimfire distribution

Brown University

Broadsheet. On verso, headed: 1. Firm continents drift oceanfloors apart, eleven numbered statements. Imprint information from dealer; suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Rimes of a good-natured apprentice

by Robert Robot. Pages [2] and [4] blank. Printed in colors on ivory paper. Title superimposed on colored drawing of robot within orange single-line border. Cover title. Poem in two three-line stanzas on page [3] Author's name from ms. signature on Brown University copy.

Rimes of a good-natured apprentice

by Robert Robot. Pages [2] and [4] blank. Printed in colors on ivory paper. Title superimposed on colored drawing of robot within orange single-line border. Cover title. Poem in two three-line stanzas on page [3] Author's name from ms. signature on Brown University copy.

Right shall triumph, Kaiser Bill: song

words by Irene Gates Moffet ; music by Horton B. Green. For voice and piano. Cover title. "Respectfully dedicated to the American Soldiers." Cover illustration: photographs of Irene Gates Moffet and Horton B. Green.

Right must prevail

Right must prevail

Brown University

Within double line border. At head of text: (Privately printed) Cut of scale of justice at head of text. At end of text: Baltimore, 1862. H. Rebel. Other titles for this poem: Fiat justicia and God will repay.

Right hath victory

Right hath victory

Brown University

words and music by Emma Jones Spence ; arr. by Mrs. J.A. Chilton. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Right hath victory" (Male quartette): p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of Statue of Liberty, Manhattan skyline, and ship. Also published for: male quartette (TTBB)

Riding on a rail, or, The doom of the cattle-starver

Harris is ridden on a rail by his neighbors for letting his cattle and horses starve to death. Harris is ridden on a rail by his neighbors for letting his cattle and horses starve to death. Within border of type ornament sections. Poem in 14 four-line stanzas. Place of publication suggested because Harris, from "Newtonville," is tried in Concord, N.H. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Richmond's European vision

Poem in seven six-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence; poem attacks slavery but does not mention the Civil War.

Richmond prisons 1861-1862

compiled from the original records kept by the Confederate government. Publisher's flier for book by William H. Jeffrey. On page [3] portraits captioned: The author, and Miss Van Lew; on page [4], cut of Libby Prison.

Richmond prisons 1861-1862

compiled from the original records kept by the Confederate government. Publisher's flier for book by William H. Jeffrey. On page [3] portraits captioned: The author, and Miss Van Lew; on page [4], cut of Libby Prison.

Richmond on the James

Richmond on the James

Brown University

Medallion of George Washington centered in first word of title. To be sung to the tune: Bingen on the Rhine. Text of song in six eight-line stanzas. At end of text within dotted rules: Wandering Poet; beneath: Lincoln, McLellan, Fremont, Grant. The Wandering Poet was a pseudonym of Byron DeWolfe, of Nashua, N.H.