Opportunism
Brown University
Dave Koretz. Broadsheet printed on glossy white paper. Poem in four eighteen-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: Dave Koretz. February 1964.
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
Ophelia illumined
Brown University
Richard & Barbara Outram. Poem. "Christmas 1965"
To be sung to the tune: Lang-syne. Within ornamental border. Text of song in three numbered eight-line stanzas.
Opening ode
Brown University
Within lined border.
Opening hymn: God's bright eternal stars have kept
Brown University
First line same as subtitle.
Opening hymn
Brown University
Text of hymn in six four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of hymn: Abbey D. Munro, Mt. Pleasant, S.C.
Open gates at which the outer world awaits
Brown University
At end of text: ... The passing of the shaddow [i.e. shadow] Title from first lines.
Open air services here: under the auspices of the Young Men's Christian Association, every Sabbath afternoon
Brown University
1 broadsheet. Poetry and prose. Text on verso within border of type ornaments; in lower left corner within border: No. 13; in right: Harris Printer 4th & Vine, Phila.
Onward to victory and freedom
Brown University
music by Beatrice M. Richmond. March for voice and piano. Caption title. "Dedicated to Marshal Joffre, the hero of the Marne"--Cover. Text of "The Sight of Stars and Stripes on the Battle-Line of France"--P. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of soldiers saluting American flag / C.R.A.[?]
Onward Sons of Liberty
Brown University
Title and first line the same. Tune: Onward Christian Soldiers.
Onward sons of freedom
Brown University
Within single line border.
Onward allied soldiers
Brown University
Tune: Onward Christian soldiers.
Onward allied soldiers
Brown University
Tune: Onward Christian soldiers.
Only you, sweet Agnes, only you
Brown University
Only you, sweet Agnes, only you
Brown University
Only you, sweet Agnes, only you
Brown University
Only waiting
Brown University
Only two of us left
Brown University
At head of text: "[Reprinted from the Traveller]" [Thoughts suggested Sunday evening, June 20th.] At end of text: 17 Chester Park, Monday, June 21st, 1875.
Only to the girdered steel
Brown University
Printed in brown on mustard-colored card stock. At head of title illustration signed: Louis Bromberg of crane and girders. Title from first line. Poem in four lines. At lower right: Greetings from Grace Goddard, Clement Wood. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence; place of publication because Wood lived in Delanson.
Only thy spark
Brown University
Within ornamental border. At end of text: Reprinted from the October issue of Partners Magazine.
Only one end of the threads I hold in my hand
Brown University
Title from first line. French fold; printed on double leaves. Decorated initial. Page [2,3] blank. Designed and printed for The Church for the Fellowship of all Peoples.
Only in dreams that I see her
Brown University
Only for you
Brown University
words by Harold Atteridge ; music by Sigmund Romberg. For voice and piano. Caption title. From musical production: Maid in America. Advertisements for other songs: cover and p. [6] Cover illustration: drawing of woman's face in back of paper globe / De Takacs.
Only be kind
Brown University
Poetry. Rule below title. Words of song in four four-line stanzas, with five-line chorus.
Only be glad
Brown University
Printed in color on colored paper.
Only a rose in the gutter
Brown University
Title and first line the same.
Only a poor withered rosebud
Brown University
Only a little while, and we shall be with God!
Brown University
Only a little wanderer
Brown University
1 broadsheet. Contains theater program.
Only a button
Brown University
Printed in blue and red on heavy paper within ornamental border; vignette of Mercury in upper left corner and dove in lower right. At head of text: Presented to Grand Army of the Republic by Baxter & Reese, Furniture Makers, 20 Market Street, Camden, N.J. By kind permission of the author, Samuel Kenyon. Poem in nine four-line stanzas about Civil War veterans' button. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.