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

Pilgrims ancient and modern

Printed on card stock. On page [1] illustration of spray of apple blossom captioned: Engraved by John A. Lowell & Co., Boston, U.S.A. On page [1] below illustration quotation from Whittier's The s beginning: So live the Fathers in their sons. Poem in four eight-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of poem: Written and composed for the occasion. Words by I.N. Tarbox, D.D. Music by Samuel Carr, Jr. On page [4] program for Congregational Club meeting at Boston Music Hall Dec. 21, 1885.

Pilgrimage

Pilgrimage

Brown University

Advertising for John Engels's "The seasons in Vermont" with background information on the advertised edition. Advertising for John Engels's "The seasons in Vermont" with background information on the advertised edition. Poetry and prose. Caption title. Printed in light brown and black with short line of type ornaments in green. Poem "Pilgrimage" on pages [2] and [3]; colophon on page [4] "Tamarack, 128 Benedict Avenue, Syracuse, N.Y. 13210." Dated from publication date of book.

Pilgrim's Terrace

Pilgrim's Terrace

Brown University

Review of Tram Combs's poems as published in his book, Pilgrim's Terrace. Typescript. At end of text: William Carlos Williams.

Pilgrim

Pilgrim

Brown University

Printed in brown on heavy cream paper in postcard format. Poem in 17 lines. "'Pilgrim' Julia, Susan Bright first edition"--Verso. Suggested publication date from publication date of book.

Pilgrim

Pilgrim

Brown University

Printed in brown on heavy cream paper in postcard format. Poem in 17 lines. "'Pilgrim' Julia, Susan Bright first edition"--Verso. Suggested publication date from publication date of book.

Pilgrim

Pilgrim

Brown University

Printed in brown on heavy cream paper in postcard format. Poem in 17 lines. "'Pilgrim' Julia, Susan Bright first edition"--Verso. Suggested publication date from publication date of book.

Pilgrim

Pilgrim

Brown University

Poetry in 7 eight-line stanzas. Appears to be fragment of a larger broadside, giving the seven first stanzas of twelve. Poem is attributed to John Adam Granade by Dr. Richard Hulan in "John Adam Granade: The "Wild Man" of Goose Creek" in: Western Folklore, 1974, pp.77-87. Possible range of dates suggested by internal evidence.

Pike County herald: published once in a great while by the Thanhouser Company. : Extra! all about "Jim Bludso"

by Hon. John Hay, Secretary of State. Advertisement for a dramatization of Jim Bludso. At head of text: These are the Pike County ballads ... from which I.N. Morris dramatized "Jim Bludso". At foot of sheet: Milwaukee union label, followed by printer's imprint: The Schueppert-Zoeller Printing Co., 144 Reed St. At end of text: The first production of this stirring melodrama Jim Bludso in Milwaukee will be made by the Thanhouser Company at the Academy next Monday evening.

Pictures in the glass

Pictures in the glass

Brown University

by Col. J.H. Bartlett. Poem. At head of text: Scene is laid in a barroom in the winter. First line: Come boys draw up around the fire this cold and blustering night.

Pictures in the glass

Pictures in the glass

Brown University

by Col. J.H. Bartlett. Poem. At head of text: Scene is laid in a barroom in the winter. First line: Come boys draw up around the fire this cold and blustering night.

Pickaninny nig

Pickaninny nig

Brown University

by Ned Straight For voice and piano Caption title Additional verses: p. 6 Advertisement for other songs: p. [8] Cover illustration: lithographed portraits of Delehanty and Hengler "Bising & Co., lith., Cincinnati"--Cover Library's copy has stamp on cover: From the bequest of Evert Jansen Wendell, 1918

Pickaninny Mose

Pickaninny Mose

Brown University

lyric by Chas. H. Brown & Otis F. Wood; music by Rollin Bond For voice and piano Caption title From musical: Simple Simon Simple Advertisement for other musicals: p. [8] Cover illustration: one-man band with Black puppet / Starmer Library's copy has retailer's stamp on cover: H.A. Tunehorst, the leading music and jewelry house, Herseyville, Ill.

Pick up your duds and go

words & music by Thomas Le Mack For voice and piano Cover title Composer's name appears as Thomas L. Mack in caption "Respectfully dedicated to and sung with great success by Eddie Manning, of Haverly's American & European Minstrels" Cover illustration: lithograph of Afro-American man packing suitcase

Pick a little four leaf clover and send it over to me

words, Ed. Rose & C. Francis Reisner ; music by Abe Olman. For voice and piano. Caption title. Featured by: The Great Lakes Sextette with John Philip Sousa's Great Lakes Band. Advertisement for "Ships that pass in the night" printed in black ink: p. [4] War slogans: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of four-leaf clover / L.A. Brunner; photograph of Great Lakes Sextette, printed in black ink.

Pick a little four leaf clover and send it over to me

words, Ed. Rose & C. Francis Reisner ; music by Abe Olman. For voice and piano. Caption title. Featured by: The Great Lakes Sextette with John Philip Sousa's Great Lakes Band. Advertisement for "Ships that pass in the night" printed in black ink: p. [4] War slogans: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of four-leaf clover / L.A. Brunner; photograph of Great Lakes Sextette, printed in black ink.

Pick a little four leaf clover and send it over to me

words, Ed. Rose & C. Francis Reisner ; music by Abe Olman. For voice and piano. Caption title. Featured by: The Great Lakes Sextette with John Philip Sousa's Great Lakes Band. Advertisement for "Ships that pass in the night" printed in black ink: p. [4] War slogans: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of four-leaf clover / L.A. Brunner; photograph of Great Lakes Sextette, printed in black ink.

Phrases, fields, Kanda (6 p.m.)

by Stephen Sandy. Page [2] blank. On page [4]: This poem was written as the text for a dance created by L.J. Gordon. 325 copies have been printed by Ronald Ballou...

Photograph of a young woman

Printed on heavy white paper in postcard format. Uncaptioned photograph (15.5 x 12 cm.) of blonde young woman wearing striped jersey pasted on recto; vignette of saxophone in upper right corner on verso. "Postcard by Carl Schurer"--Verso. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.

Philosophy: as sung by Jerry Merrifield

Within border of type ornaments. To be sung to the tune: Judy's black eyes. Text of song in five eight-line stanzas with chorus beginning: 'Tis a folly &c. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidsence.

Philip Schuyler Chapter D.A.R. welcomes you

Printed in blue and black. At head of title vignette in blue of distaff and spinning wheel inscribed around rim: Daughters of the American Revolution. Cover title. Includes text of several stanzas of three songs. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence; suggested place of publication from Philip Schuyler's career as Revolutionary general and senator from New York.