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 flag

Our flag

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words by Amos R. Wells ; music by Louise Souther. For voice and piano. Caption title. Dedicated to: Newton D. Baker.

Our flag

Our flag

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Tune: The star spangled banner.

Our flag

Our flag

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Within border of type ornaments.

Our flag

Our flag

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by Lorenzo Sosso. Cover title. Page [4] blank. Gilded lettering on page [1] within multi-colored Art Nouveau border; text on pages [2] and [3] within blue/red double line border, with multi-colored Art nouveau initial and end piece in black. Below border on page [3]: Copyrighted 1901. Elder and Shepard, Publishers, S.F.

Our flag

Our flag

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Tune: Adeste fideles or Portugese hymn. At end of text: Dedicated to the patriots of America.

Our Father in heaven

Our Father in heaven

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Broadsheet. Recto within border of typw ornament sections; verso within ornamental border including vignettes of steam locomotive and sailor in ship. At head of title on recto wood-engraving of three kneeling children. First line same as title. Author's name not on item. Poem on recto in two eight-line stanzas paraphrasing the Lord's Prayer. Text on verso: Reward of merit. This certifies that [blank] for diligence and attention to studies, and good conduct in school, merits my approbation and esteem. [blank] Instruct. Colophon on verso below rule: Sold by Geo. P. Daniels,--2 South Main-st. Providence. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Our family pledge

Our family pledge

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Tune: Auld lang syne. At head of text: Sung at re-union, 1855.

Our family pledge

Our family pledge

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Tune: Auld lang syne. At head of text: Sung at re-union, 1855.

Our family pledge

Our family pledge

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1 broadsheet. Tune: Auld lang syne. At head of text: Sung at re-union, 1855.

Our family name

Our family name

Brown University

Within double line border with ornamental corners. Cover title: A poem written by Rev. Ralph Hoyt ... and read by him at the Hoyt Family Meeting ..

Our empire

Our empire

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At end of title: T.E. Moberly, Toronto, February 7, 1889.

Our debt

Our debt

Brown University

At end of text: Baltimore, October 16, 1861.