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 arm chair

Old arm chair

Brown University

Speaker loves dead mother's chair. Speaker loves dead mother's chair. Curvilinear line above title. At head of text vignette of musical instruments. Text of song in three eight-line stanzas. At end of text below curvilinear line: A.W. Auner's Card & Job Printing Rooms, Tenth and Race Sts., Philadelphia, Pa. Attributed to Eliza Cook; entered under title rather than author. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence. This edition not in Wolf.

Old age: 1884-1796 88

Old age: 1884-1796 88

Brown University

Pages [1] and [4] blank. Caption title. Poetry. Place of publication suggested because Lowe lived in Boston for much of his life and died there. Poem also found in Lowe's Old age birthday poems, Boston, 1889.

Old age: 1884-1796 88

Old age: 1884-1796 88

Brown University

Pages [1] and [4] blank. Caption title. Poetry. Place of publication suggested because Lowe lived in Boston for much of his life and died there. Poem also found in Lowe's Old age birthday poems, Boston, 1889.

Old age: 1884-1796 88

Old age: 1884-1796 88

Brown University

Pages [1] and [4] blank. Caption title. Poetry. Place of publication suggested because Lowe lived in Boston for much of his life and died there. Poem also found in Lowe's Old age birthday poems, Boston, 1889.

Old age: 1883-1796=87

Old age: 1883-1796=87

Brown University

A. T. L. Page [4] blank. Poetry. Place of publication suggested because Lowe lived in Boston for much of his life and died there. Poem found also in Lowe's Old age birthday poems, Boston, 1889.

Old age: 1881-1796=85

Old age: 1881-1796=85

Brown University

Pages [2]-[4] blank. Caption title. Poetry. Place of publication suggested because Lowe lived in Boston for much of his life and died there. Poem also in Lowe's Old age birthday poems, Boston, 1889.

Old age

Old age

Brown University

Text on p. [2] At head of text: (1880--1796=84.) At end of text: A.T.L.

Old age

Old age

Brown University

Text on p. [2] At head of text: (1880--1796=84.) At end of text: A.T.L.

Old age

Old age

Brown University

Text on p. [2] At head of text: (1880--1796=84.) At end of text: A.T.L.

Old Abe, the battle eagle: song & chorus

poetry by L.J. Bates ; music by T. Martin Towne. For voice and piano; refrain set for chorus (SATB) and piano. English words; verses 1-2 printed beneath the vocal line and verses 3-5 printed as text following the music. "Inscribed to the 8th Wisconsin Regt."--At head of title. Color illustration: a portrait of Old Abe, the mascot of the 8th Wisconsin Regt. / L. kurz ; Lith. Chas. Shober.

Old Abe they said was an honest man: song

For voice and piano "Words composed & sung with great applause by J.W. Jarboe Esq. at the Great McClellan Union Meeting, Union Square; music by F. Lafayette"--Cover Words to verses 2-7 printed as text on p. 5

Ol' Dick Greene

Ol' Dick Greene

Brown University

Printed in dark blue and olive green on heavy paper within border of type ornament sections; text in dark blue. Text of song in five four-line stanzas with varied four-line chorus beginning: Says Ham to Lem, "I don't give a dem!" Facsimile signature at end: Eben Francis Thompson, Censor. Suggested place of publication from location of boat club; suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Oh! Where is Snyder now

Oh! Where is Snyder now

Brown University

At head of text: A law and order song, as lately sung by the clerks, salesmen, porters and other employees of Woodburn, Bright & Co., to the tune of "Where, oh! where is my little dog gone." Taken down on a bale of dry good by Peter Peppercorn. Text of song in seven four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: But where, oh! where is Snyder now. At end of text below curvilinear line: A.W. Auner's Card and Job Printing Rooms, Tenth and Race Sts., Philadelphia, Pa. Peter Peppercorn is pseudonym of Emanuel Price; entered under title rather than author. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Oh! Wake up in de morning

written by M. E. I. ; & sung by Wm. Whitlock. For voice and piano. Caption title. List of series titles 1-14 given on cover. Cover illustration: lithograph of 2 Afro-American actors on stage, c1846.

Oh! Wake up in de morning

written by M. E. I. ; & sung by Wm. Whitlock. For voice and piano. Caption title. List of series titles 1-3 given on cover. Cover illustration: tinted lithograph of 2 Afro-American actors on stage, c1846.

Oh! Susie behave

Oh! Susie behave

Brown University

words by Ed. Rose ; music by Abe Olman. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: a nurse / De Takacs.

Oh! Speak to me once more!

written by W. Dexter Smith Jr. ; music by Henri Cromwell. For low voice and piano. "The exclamation of Mrs. Lincoln, as she bent over her dying husband"--P. [3]) Cover title.