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.

This collection has the following subsets:

Items in this collection

Our boys in France

Our boys in France

Brown University

words by Henry T. Thomas ; music by Otto H. Bauman. March for voice and piano. Caption title. "Music by Otto F. Bauman"--Cover. Text of 'Our boys in France' as published Apr. 1918 and as rev. Nov. 1918: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing entitled "For the service" / H. Giles, 1918.

Our boys at the front

Our boys at the front

Brown University

words by Horace L. Broughton ; music by Robt. H. Brennen. For voice and piano. Caption title. Cover illustration: soldier and a sailor in two battle scenes.

Our banner in the sky

Our banner in the sky

Brown University

Offers print of painting of the sky by Frederick E. Church. Offers print of painting of the sky by Frederick E. Church. Page [4] blank. In upper left corner embossed image of St. George killing dragon. Includes poetry. Type-signed at end of text: Goupil & Co., M. Knoedler, Successor, 772 Broadway, New-York. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Our army of the dead

Our army of the dead

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Printed on cardboard. On verso: The March of Company A, by K. Osgood.

Our answer to the call

Our answer to the call

Brown University

words & music by Elizabeth Garrett. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Cover illustration: U.S. flag.

Our angels

Our angels

Brown University

by Helen Hunt. Printed on gilt-edged cardboard. Poem in seven seven-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Our American flag

Our American flag

Brown University

music and verse by C. Turner Schubarth. For voice and piano. Caption title. Cover illustration: drawing of American flag.

Our American flag

Our American flag

Brown University

music and verse by C. Turner Schubarth. For voice and piano. Caption title. Cover illustration: drawing of American flag.

Our America: a song of patriotism

Our America: a song of patriotism

Brown University

words and music by Anna Case. March for voice and piano. Cover title. John Church Co. moved from Cincinnati to Philadelphia. Advertisement for Sousa music: p. [6]

Our Albany

Our Albany

Brown University

Tune: Materna. At end of text: (Written for the Woman's Club of Albany by Frances V. Hubbard)

Our aero-lady

Our aero-lady

Brown University

Printed in blue. At end of text: Copyright, 1918, by Pearl E. Thompson.

Ou l'on barbotte un peu

Ou l'on barbotte un peu

Brown University

Broadsheet printed on card stock. Colored illustration of little girl on beach with rhyming caption in French. Title from first line of caption. On verso, advertisement for Soapine, beginning: For washing and cleaning everything. Probable range of dates from internal evidence.

Otis

Otis

Brown University

by Barbara Howes. Page [4] blank.