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

Old Father Time gliding swiftly along

Printed in colors on heavy white paper in postcard format. At head of title colored illustration of stream with snow-covered banks. Title from first line. At end of poem: L.F.P. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Old England forty years ago

Printed in three columns divided by curvilinear line (between columns 1 and 2), line of advertisement between columns 2 and 3. Printed also as His: A new song on the causes ... and History of the American war.

Old England forty years ago

First line same as title. Poetry in 21 eight-line stanzas, also entitled "History of the American war or A new song on the causes .. Cut of ship under sail at head of text in first column. At end of text below border: Sold wholesale & retail by J.G. & H. Hunt, at the Book & Variety Store, 2 Mercantile Wharf, & head City Wharf. The firm was at above address from 1837 to 1841.

Old Doc Brown

Old Doc Brown

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Page [1] by Jack Major and Henry T. Murtagh. Compliments of Union Oil Company.

Old Crimes

Old Crimes

Brown University

Parody of Old Grimes by Albert Gorton Greene; author says he writes during lifetime of "Old Crimes." Parody of Old Grimes by Albert Gorton Greene; author says he writes during lifetime of "Old Crimes." Irving Winsor. Poem in 16 numbered two-line stanzas. At head of text: Irving Winsor, Greenville, R.I. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Old codge Ellerton

Old codge Ellerton

Brown University

Title from first line. At head of text: Christmas greetings: 1866.

Old cheese or meat

Old cheese or meat

Brown University

Robert Serling. Printed in grey on grey paper in postcard format. Title and text separated by red line. Publication date supplied by dealer. Caption title.

Old cheese or meat

Old cheese or meat

Brown University

Robert Serling. Printed in grey on grey paper in postcard format. Title and text separated by red line. Publication date supplied by dealer. Caption title.

Old cheese or meat

Old cheese or meat

Brown University

Robert Serling. Printed in grey on grey paper in postcard format. Title and text separated by red line. Publication date supplied by dealer. Caption title.

Old Cape Cod: the land of heart's desire

Printed in colors on heavy white paper in postcard format in two columns; text on verso in blue. At head of title colored landscape with houses. Type-signed at end: John Chipman. On verso information about Cape Cod. Suggested publication date from postmark on Brown University copy.

Old Cape Cod: the land of heart's desire

Poetry. Postcard printed in black and blue on heavy paper. At head of title colored reproduction of photograph of beach captioned: Sand dunes and surf; at left of text colored reproduction of landscape photograph captioned: An old Cape Cod house. Type-signed at end of poem: John Chipman. On verso: Cordial greetings from the Hyannis Rotary Club Poland Springs conclave October, 1927.

Old black Joe:: song & chorus

written & composed by Stephen C. Foster For voice, piano, and chorus (SAB) Cover title At head of title: "Ten thousand copies sold." Advertisements for other songs: p. [6] Cover illustration: lithograph of old Black man reading to white girl, captioned "Dan Bryant"

Old Black Joe:: song

Old Black Joe:: song

Brown University

written and composed by Stephen C. Foster For voice, 3-part chorus, and piano Cover title Library's copy has retailer's stamp on cover: Doebele & Strengson, dealers in music, Toledo, Ohio

Old bachelors & old maids last prayer

Printed in two columns. Above title one cut each of woman and old man flanking text preceding title. At end of text below curvilinear line: Printed and sold at No. 25 High Street, Providence .. Above address is listed for Henry Trumbull between 1826 and 1836 in the Providence Directory. This edition not in Ford.

Old bachelors & old maids last prayer

Printed in two columns. Above title one cut each of woman and old man flanking text preceding title. At end of text below curvilinear line: Printed and sold at No. 25 High Street, Providence .. Above address is listed for Henry Trumbull between 1826 and 1836 in the Providence Directory. This edition not in Ford.

Old bachelors & old maids last prayer

Printed in two columns. Above title one cut each of woman and old man flanking text preceding title. At end of text below curvilinear line: Printed and sold at No. 25 High Street, Providence .. Above address is listed for Henry Trumbull between 1826 and 1836 in the Providence Directory. This edition not in Ford.