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

Our prayer

Our prayer

Brown University

Author of poem unknown. Contains quote from Jim Elliot: "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, To gain what he cannot lose" Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Our pledge

Our pledge

Brown University

Cut of American flag at upper left and right; cut of eagle and shield at bottom center.. Printed on heavy white card stock in one and two columns within border of American flag type ornaments At head of text: Copyright, 1918, by Oliver E. Burns, Los Angeles, California Includes list of Allies in April, 1918, and four-line poem beginning: We can all of us help, we all of us must. "Hang one in every window." Hay Broadsides Harris copy: Round perforation for hanging in upper margin; received through the Library of Congress Duplicate Exchange; stamped: MAY 7 1918 with the number: 498020

Our pastor's birthday

Our pastor's birthday

Brown University

Tune: Hebron. Within ornamental border. Probably published in Salem, residency of Brown Emerson as pastor of the South Church in 1865.

Our paper. Thirty years singing! Concert in this place!: Over a quarter of a century's career of the Hutchinson Famil...

Caption title. Printed ca. March 30, 1869, to promote a series of concerts, by John W. and Henry Hutchinson in and near Chicago then in progress. Issued in newspaper format, printed in two columns divided by single lines, the issue sketches the history of the singing group and their performances from 1840 to 1869. Contains on page 3 the first stanza of Whittier's Furnace blast (First line: We wait beneath the furnace blast)

Our p's and q's are nicely minded!

At head of title illustration of letters "p" and "q" with legs and arms and boy holding hatchet. Invenit & sculpsit Kitzi Pantzer Cover title. Includes dedication to W.A. Jackson. "STC" probably stands for A short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland & Ireland, of which the second edition was edited by W.A. Jackson, F.S. Ferguson and K.F. Pantzer.

Our own song

Our own song

Brown University

Describes charity thrift store called Goodwill Store. Describes charity thrift store called Goodwill Store. To be sung to the the tune: Men of Harlech. Within oprinted on glossy card stock within ornamental border. Text of song in three eight-line stanzas with eight-line chorus beginning: Come then, winsome ladies. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Our own American boy

Our own American boy

Brown University

words by William C. Wilbert ; music by Max Friedman & George F. Olcott. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: soldier embracing woman.

Our native land: (Marlene)

words by Rida Johnson Young [i.e. Young] ; music by Emmerich Kalman. For voice and piano. Caption title. Sung by the character Marlene in the operetta "Her soldier boy" Advertisement for other music: p. [7]

Our native land

Our native land

Brown University

Tune: Maryland, My Maryland. Within single line border.

Our national union march

"Most respectfully inscribed to Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States by the composer, Charles Rehm"--Cover Lithograph cover by Shearman & Hart featuring portrait of Lincoln in oval frame draped with American flag with figures of War and Peace on each side and view of capitol beneath For piano

Our nation's joy

Our nation's joy

Brown University

Poem for the marriage of Theodore Roosevelt's daughter, "pretty Alice Lee," in 1906. Poem for the marriage of Theodore Roosevelt's daughter, "pretty Alice Lee," in 1906. Test of song in three ten-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Great joy, our nation's joy. Type-signed at end: William Mahoney.

Our Monitor

Our Monitor

Brown University

Within rules and corner type ornaments. At foot of text: New York, 16th November, 1862.

Our Monitor

Our Monitor

Brown University

Within rules and corner type ornaments. At foot of text: New York, 16th November, 1862.

Our maiden fight

Our maiden fight

Brown University

by Taylor Archer, Co. B. Poem tells of the first engangement of the 97th Pennsylvania Infantry during the Civil War. The skirmish took place on June 10th, 1962 on James Island in South Carolina. Tune: The girl I left behind me. Printed on blue paper.

Our loved one

Our loved one

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Page [1]: In loving memory of our dear daughter and sister, who died two sad years ago today at Houston, Texas.