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 exercises at the Centennial celebration of the incorporation of the town of Conway, Mass., Wednesday, June 19, 1867
Brown University
Text on all pages printed within double line border. At bottom of page [4] within border: Franklin Job Printing Office, Greenfield, Mass.
Order of exercises at the Centennial celebration of the incorporation of the town of Conway, Mass., Wednesday, June 19, 1867
Brown University
Text on all pages printed within double line border. At bottom of page [4] within border: Franklin Job Printing Office, Greenfield, Mass.
Order of exercises at the centennial celebration of the building of the First Presbyterian Church: November 28, 1856
Brown University
Within ornamental border.
Order of exercises at the centennial celebration of the building of the First Presbyterian Church: November 28, 1856
Brown University
Within ornamental border.
Order of exercises at the centennial celebration of the building of the First Presbyterian Church: November 28, 1856
Brown University
Within ornamental border.
Order of exercises at the centennial celebration of the building of the First Presbyterian Church: November 28, 1856
Brown University
Within ornamental border.
Within double line border with ornamental corners. From dwellings by the stormy deep [First line] by W.J. Pabodie.--Original ode. The wintry night frowned black [First line] by T. Durfee.
Printed in two columns divided by double line. First 2 stanzas of God bless our native land translated from German by C.T. Brooks and J.S. Dwight; third stanza by W.E. Hickson.
Order of exercises at the celebration of the Philermenian Society, of Brown University: September 3d, 1822
Brown University
Page [2] blank. Cover title.
Order of exercises at the celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the town of Leicester: July 4, 1871
Brown University
Within single-line border on page [1] and double-line border on other pages. Programme includes text of invocation and hymn.
At head of title: 1620. 1726. Kingston. 1876. 1776. Within single line border, printed on blue-green paper.
Printed in one and two columns divided by lines of type ornaments within ornamental border containing urns, eagles, fountains, etc. Includes text of two odes.
Within border of type ornaments. Two columns of text.
Order of exercises at the celebration of the 4th of July, by the Sabbath schools in Andover, 1834
Brown University
Within border of type ornaments. Contains hymns.
Order of exercises at the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the settlement of Springfield: May 25, 1836
Brown University
Printed in two columns divided by single line. Includes text of anthem, hymn and poem.
Order of exercises at the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the settlement of Springfield: May 25, 1836
Brown University
Printed in two columns divided by single line. Includes text of anthem, hymn and poem.
Printed in two columns divided by a single line.
Printed in two columns divided by a single line.
Printed in two columns divided by a single line.
Order of exercises at the annual exhibition, July 21st, 1866
Brown University
Order of exercises at the annual exhibition, July 21st, 1866
Brown University
Order of exercises at the annual exhibition, July 21st, 1866
Brown University
Order of exercises at the annual exhibition, July 14, 1865
Brown University
Order of exercises at the annual exhibition of the Lawrence School: on Tuesday, July 26th, 1859, at eight o'clock, a.m
Brown University
Within single line border with ornamental corners.
Order of exercises at the annual exhibition of the Bigelow School, Tuesday, July 21, 1857
Brown University
Text within double line border.
Order of exercises at the annual convention: of the Bridgewater Normal Association, Wednesday, August, 21, 1850
Brown University
Within border of type ornaments.
Order of exercises at the annual convention: of the Bridgewater Normal Association, Wednesday, August, 21, 1850
Brown University
Within border of type ornaments.
Order of exercises at the anniversary of the Pnyxian Club: To be held Thursday evening, Feb. 24, 1842 at the Meeting-House of the Third Parish, Portland
Brown University
Printed in one and two columns divided by curvilinear line. Mentions original poem by M.F. Whittier but does not give text. Pnyxian ode to be sung to the tune: America.