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 country's in it now!: we've got to win it now!

words by Arthur Guy Empey ; music by Charles R. McCarron and Carey Morgan. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisements for other songs: p. 2-3. Our real enemy / by Arthur Guy Empey: p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of soldiers in action.

Our country's flag: song

composed & dedicated to his excellency Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by G. Gumpert ; [arranged for the piano by F. Losseé] For voice and piano; refrain set for chorus (TTBB) and piano. English words, with German translation. Verses 3-6 of the English text are printed as text at the bottom of p. 5. Illustration: scene of a young soldier in a military camp holding up an American flag / J. Queen, del. & lith. ; P.S. Duval & Son lith.

Our country's flag: song

composed & dedicated to his excellency Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by G. Gumpert ; [arranged for the piano by F. Losseé] For voice and piano; refrain set for chorus (TTBB) and piano. English words, with German translation. Verses 3-6 of the English text are printed as text at the bottom of p. 5. Illustration: scene of a young soldier in a military camp holding up an American flag / J. Queen, del. & lith. ; P.S. Duval & Son lith.

Our country's flag--we'll raise our hat to thee!

Title from first line. Acrostic poem in 14 lines of which the initials spell: Our Union button. Type-signed at end: By James C. Maloney, 236 East Madison St., Chicago. In lower left corner Allied Printing Trades Council, Chicago, Ill. union label.

Our country: Verses

Our country: Verses

Brown University

composed by Mrs. Nancy J. Smith, a poor blind woman. Poem, in 8 stanzas. Attribution questionable; one of several broadsides on a wide variety of subjects purporting to have been written by "Nancy J. Smith" variously described. Evidently published soon after the end of the American Civil War. Printed area: 15.2 x 6.4 cm. First line: The freedom of our country.

Our country stands for Humanity

Printed in colors on heavy white paper in postcard format. At head of title embossed colored illustration of American flag and blue flowers. Title from first line. Four-line poem.

Our country redeemed

Our country redeemed

Brown University

At end of text: Composed by O. Wheelock, Proprietor of the Great Dinners in the Palace Markets ... where the reader is respectfully invited to participate. Alludes to Civil War victory.

Our country calls today!

words and music by Irving Gingrich. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: allegorical figure of America standing on a pier.

Our Christmas box

Our Christmas box

Brown University

published annually by the employees in Alston's Tonsorial Saloon, 33 Fourth Street, Brooklyn, E.D., December 25th, 1873. Within double line border with corner ornaments.

Our Christian new year

Our Christian new year

Brown University

W.P.C. Adams. Printed on blue paper within double line border. At end of text: Copyright 1917 ... All rights reserved for all countries ..

Our candidate

Our candidate

Brown University

Printed in red in two columns. Each song type signed: Hope Howland Smith.

Our boys: solo for medium voice

words and music by Herm M. Hahn. For medium voice and piano. Cover title. "Op. 39"--Caption. Sung by: Ernest Moeller. "Dedicated to the Army and Navy." Advertisement for Packard Piano Co., Fort Wayne, Ind. Cover illustration: photograph of Ernest Moeller. Also published for: male chorus in G major, mixed chorus in E♭ major.