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:
- Blondie Robinson collection of African-American Minstrel and Vaudeville photographs
- Ciné-Tracts
- Dupee Fireworks Collection
- Fernando Birri Archive of Multimedia Arts - Escritos
- H. Adrian Smith Magic Objects Collection
- Harris Broadsides
- Julie Adams Strandberg Collection: 50 Years of Dance at Brown University
- Lincoln Sheet Music
- Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830s-1920s)
- Rites and Reason Theatre
- Songsters and Hymnals from the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
- World War I Sheet Music
- Yiddish Sheet Music
Items in this collection
Order of service for the celebration of cessation of hostilities: Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, The University of Chicago
Brown University
Program for service celebrating the end of World War II.
Order of service for the celebration of cessation of hostilities: Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, The University of Chicago
Brown University
Program for service celebrating the end of World War II.
Order of service for the celebration of cessation of hostilities: Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, The University of Chicago
Brown University
Program for service celebrating the end of World War II.
Order of sacred exercises: for the dedication of the Congregational Meeting-House, Newport, March 13, 1823
Brown University
Within border of type ornaments printed in two columns.
Order of religious services in the Independent Christian Church, Gloucester, Sunday, June 25th, 1871
Brown University
Text within single line border with corner ornaments. Contains six hymns, the first beginning with: Fresh as the blossoms springing.
Order of performances of the graduating class, Friday, July 8th, 1864, in Rumford Hall, at 2 1/2 o'clock, p.m
Brown University
Text on pp. [1,4] within double line border.
Order of performances of the graduating class, Friday, July 8th, 1864, in Rumford Hall, at 2 1/2 o'clock, p.m
Brown University
Text on pp. [1,4] within double line border.
Order of performances of the graduating class, Friday, July 8th, 1864, in Rumford Hall, at 2 1/2 o'clock, p.m
Brown University
Text on pp. [1,4] within double line border.
Order of performances at York, July 4, 1828
Brown University
Printed in one and two columns divided by single line.
Printed in two columns divided by double lines. Includes text of ode.
Printed in one and two columns divided by curvilinear line. Includes text of three hymns.
Printed in one and two columns divided by curvilinear line. Includes text of three hymns.
Page [4] blank. Within ornamental border.
Page [4] blank. Within ornamental border.
Order of performances at the first anniversary of the Story Association, Tuesday, July 15th, 1851
Brown University
Within ornamental border.
Order of performances at the celebration of the 57th anniversary of our national independence: Duxbury, July 4th, 1832
Brown University
Printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line.
Order of performances at the celebration of the 57th anniversary of our national independence: Duxbury, July 4th, 1832
Brown University
Printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line.
Order of performances at the celebration of the 57th anniversary of our national independence: Duxbury, July 4th, 1832
Brown University
Printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line.
Printed in one and two columns divided by single line.
Order of performance, for the 4th of July, 1813, at Tiverton
Brown University
Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments.
Order of performance, by the Harmonic Society, April 5, 1821
Brown University
Printed in three columns divided by curvilinear lines within ornamental border.
Order of performance, at the sixteenth anniversary celebration of the Massachusetts Charitable Fire Society, Friday, June first, 1810
Brown University
Printed in two columns divided by double line. First line: O praise the Lord in that best place.
Order of performance of the funeral solemnities, in Faneuil Hall, April 20, 1841: on the death of William Henry Harrison, President of the United States
Brown University
Printed in two columns divided by wide line within single line mourning border.
Order of performance at the Whig celebration, July 4, 1834
Brown University
Pages [2-3] blank. Printed in one and two columns. Ode on page [4] includes music.