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

Over the top

Over the top

Brown University

words by Alfred Bryan ; music by Pete Wendling & Jack Wells. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "I hate to lose you" printed in red ink: p. [4] Cover illustration: soldiers charging out of trench / Barbelle.

Over the top

Over the top

Brown University

words by Alfred Bryan ; music by Pete Wendling & Jack Wells. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "I hate to lose you" printed in red ink: p. [4] Cover illustration: soldiers charging out of trench / Barbelle.

Over the top

Over the top

Brown University

Pages [1, 4] within double line border.

Over the top

Over the top

Brown University

Pages [1] and [4] blank. At head of text: Dedicated to the village of Clark Mills, Oneida County, N.Y. At end of text: Copyright, 1918. A. Smales.

Over the road to Provincetown

Poetry. Broadsheet printed in blue and black on heavy paper in postcard format. Text superimposed on reproduction of color photograph of monument captioned: Pilgrim Memorial Monument, Provincetown, Mass.; at head of title reproduction of color photograph of road. At end of text: From The Provincetown book by Nancy W. Paine-Smith. On verso: Cordial greetings from the Hyannis Rotary Club, Poland Spring conclave, October, 1927.

Over the Rhine: song

Over the Rhine: song

Brown University

lyric by Jack Yellen ; music by Albert Gumble. March for voice and piano. Caption title. War slogans: p. 2-[4] Advertisement for "I can't get along without you" and other music: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of troops marching over the Rhine / Starmer.

Over the restless sea

Over the restless sea

Brown University

At end of text: Written for the Garfield memorial meeting of The Literary Society of Washington, held Nov. 19, 1881.

Over here: march song

Over here: march song

Brown University

words and music by Malissia Crudup. March for voice and piano. Cover title.

Over here: Liberty bond song, to the tune of the famous "Over there"

At head of text: The words really fit the music: Try it and be convinced. Broadsheet containing poem on recto, typesigned "R.S.W."; advertising for Liberty Bonds on verso, captioned "The what, why, and how of Liberty Bonds"; text on verso printed in two columns.

Over here

Over here

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments.

Over here

Over here

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments.

Outs and ins: Half horse--half alligator

Poetry in twelve four-line stanzas with four-line refrain, beginning: Sing yankee doodle in good mood. Printed in two columns divided by curvilinear type ornament sections. At end of text in second column, below line of type ornaments: Printed and sold by Christian Brown, 211 Water near Fulton-Street, New-York. C. Brown is listed at above address from 1825 to 1834. Cut of horse-alligator creature separating title.

Outhouse poem

Outhouse poem

Brown University

Robert Bly. Poetry; issued in postcard format with imprint information on verso. Text printed on orange paper within chalked outline.

Outhouse poem

Outhouse poem

Brown University

Robert Bly. Poetry; issued in postcard format with imprint information on verso. Text printed on orange paper within chalked outline.

Outhouse poem

Outhouse poem

Brown University

Robert Bly. Poetry; issued in postcard format with imprint information on verso. Text printed on orange paper within chalked outline.

Out where the West begins.

Printed in colors on heavy white paper in postcard format At head of text reproduction of color photograph of Mount Holy Cross, Colorado; at left and right sprays of flowers. Poem in three stanzas, type-signed: Arthur Chapman. On verso information about poem. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence. Hay Broadsds Harris copy: On verso ms. notation about Mount Holy Cross; not mailed.

Out where the West begins

Printed in colors on recto, in blue on verso on heavy white paper in postcard format. At head of title colored illustration of landscape with cactuses. Author's name not on item. Poem in three stanzas of varying length. Suggested publication date from postmark on Brown University copy.

Out where the West begins

Printed in colors on recto, in blue on verso on heavy white paper in postcard format. At head of title colored illustration of landscape with cactuses. Author's name not on item. Poem in three stanzas of varying length. Suggested publication date from postmark on Brown University copy.

Out where the West begins

Printed in colors on recto, in blue on verso on heavy white paper in postcard format. At head of title colored illustration of landscape with cactuses. Author's name not on item. Poem in three stanzas of varying length. Suggested publication date from postmark on Brown University copy.