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

Once with his young wife

Printed on heavy ivory paper. Title from first line. At end of text: From Ssu-ma Ch'ien's Shih-chih. Chas. Guenther. Removed from portfolio Semina, no. 4.

Once more the Christmas candle is aglow

Title from first line. Pages [2] and [4] blank. Printed in red and green. Illustration of candlestick with burning candle at left of text. At end of text: Sallie, William and Dorothy Brewer Christmas 1926.

Once in a while

Once in a while

Brown University

Printed in colors on heavy white paper in postcard format; text on recto in red and green, on verso in black. At head of text illustration of caricatured couple kissing. Words and music of song chorus. Author's name not on item. "By permission of Copyright 1906 by Helf & Hager Co. Inc. 48 W. 28th St. N.Y."--Colophon. "No. 4600 Music Series"--Verso.

Once in a while

Once in a while

Brown University

Printed in colors on heavy white paper in postcard format; text on recto in red and green, on verso in black. At head of text illustration of caricatured couple kissing. Words and music of song chorus. Author's name not on item. "By permission of Copyright 1906 by Helf & Hager Co. Inc. 48 W. 28th St. N.Y."--Colophon. "No. 4600 Music Series"--Verso.

Once in a while

Once in a while

Brown University

Printed in colors on heavy white paper in postcard format; text on recto in red and green, on verso in black. At head of text illustration of caricatured couple kissing. Words and music of song chorus. Author's name not on item. "By permission of Copyright 1906 by Helf & Hager Co. Inc. 48 W. 28th St. N.Y."--Colophon. "No. 4600 Music Series"--Verso.

On your horizon fair

On your horizon fair

Brown University

Printed on heavy paper in postcard format. At head of title colored illustration of landscape, signed "M.M.S." Four-line poem typesigned: M.E.S.

On your horizon fair

On your horizon fair

Brown University

Printed on heavy paper in postcard format. At head of title colored illustration of landscape, signed "M.M.S." Four-line poem typesigned: M.E.S.

On winter blast's

On winter blast's

Brown University

Pge [2] blank. Vertically folded. On page [1] against magenta ground facsimile of manuscript paragraph; page [2] red ground. On page [3]: Merry Christmas. Cornelia and Waller Barrett 1966. On page [4]: From an eighteenth-century, manuscript commonplace book of American and English prose and verse, kept by an anonymous Yankee with a penchant for limericks.

On Westminster Street, the New York Crockery Store

Printed on card stock. Poem printed on rectangular white label surrounded by leaves and white flowers on black ground. Title from first lines. Advertises store at 69 Westminster Street. Date from internal evidence.

On Westminster Street, the New York Crockery Store

Printed on card stock. Poem printed on white label with curling edges surrounded by purple flowers on black ground. Title from first lines. Advertises store at 69 Westminster Street. Date from internal evidence.

On Westminster Street, the New York Crockery Store

Printed on card stock. Poem printed on white fan surrounded by lily-of-the-valley, roses, handkerchief, and butterfly. Title from first lines. Advertises store at 69 Westminster Street. Date from internal evidence.

On to Richmond

On to Richmond

Brown University

At head of title hand-colored wood-engraving of young soldier marching. Four-line poem. A similar poem at Brown University entitled Soldier (HB37951) was published by the N.Y. Union Valentine Co.

On to Plattsburg!: march

Herbert W. Lowe. March for voice and piano. "Words by David Stevens"--P. 4. Caption title. "Dedicated to R.E.M. 4th Senior Division." Advertisement for other songs: p. [6] Cover illustration: drawing of soldiers marching. Also published for: piano solo, four-handed piano, band, orchestra, and mandolin orchestra.

On to France

On to France

Brown University

Printed in blue. United States flag in upper left corner. At end of text: Urania Nott Sangster, Buffalo, N.Y. / Copyright 1917.

On to Berlin

On to Berlin

Brown University

At head of text: Sung to the tune of Marching through Georgia.

On to Berlin

On to Berlin

Brown University

words by J.C. Crisler ; music by Lee Johnson. March for voice and piano. Caption title. "Written for a Company of Infantry known as the "Los Angeles Volunteers," N.C.C., Recruiting Headquarters 7th and Spring Sts., Los Angeles, Cal., by J.C. Crisler."--Cover. Information about the "Los Angeles Volunteers": p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of Allied soldiers marching on Berlin / Articue.

On to Berlin

On to Berlin

Brown University

At head of text: Sung to the tune of Marching through Georgia.

On this festival occasion

Title from first line. At head of text: The following poem was read by H.P. Sweetser, Esq., at the Third Annual Excursion of the Carpet Dealers of Boston, at Nantasket Beach, June 26th, 1969. With double line border.