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
Odes to be sung at the celebration of the Fourth of July, 1833: in the Third Presbyterian Church
Brown University
At head of text: Newark Young Men's Society.
Odes to be sung at the celebration of the Fourth of July, 1833: in the Third Presbyterian Church
Brown University
At head of text: Newark Young Men's Society.
Odes to be sung at the celebration of the Fourth of July, 1833: in the Third Presbyterian Church
Brown University
At head of text: Newark Young Men's Society.
Odes to be sung at Newark, on the celebration of American independence, July 5th, 1841
Brown University
Printed in two lines divided by cable line within ornamental border. At head of title: cut of musical instruments, wreath, and sprays.
Caption title. Includes text of three odes and one hymn. Stanzas of odes and hymn numbered. Initials "E.B." after first and third odes, "D.M." after second.
Odes for the Fourth of July
Brown University
Type ornament at head of text; different type ornament between poems.
Odes for the 4th of July, 1831, at Hanover
Brown University
Printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line. Includes three odes. Suggested state of publication from dealer.
Odes adopted by the G.C.U.S
Brown University
Broadsheet; text printed on orange card stock within single-line border with ornamental corners. Poetry. Three odes used by the Great Council of the United States. Suggested range of dates from internal evidence.
Ode. We have journeyed to thee from the ends of the earth
Brown University
1 broadsheet. Title from first line.
Ode. For July 4, 1836
Brown University
Ode: Ye gather round the hallowed shrine
Brown University
First line same as subtitle.
1 broadsheet. Star spangled banner with music. On verso: Star Spangled Banner by F.S. Key.
Ode: Two hundred years ago here, and autumn leaves were falling
Brown University
Within ornamental border. First line same as subtitle.
Ode: To God whose power extends
Brown University
First line same as subtitle. Tune: Delight. Within ornamental border.
Ode: the links of ten swift-rolling years
Brown University
1 broadsheet. Air: Auld lang syne. Verso: '76 Re-union '83 at Francestown Academy, Tuesday, August 17th, 1886 ... Program.
Ode: the dark forest frowned o'er the unopened sod
Brown University
Pages [3] and [4] blank.
Ode: Sung at commencement, Middlebury College, August 15, 1838 / By a member of the graduating class
Brown University
To be sung to the tune: Eglon. Text of song in four numbered eight-line stanzas.
Ode: presented to Mrs. Herbert Augustine Claiborne, National President, and to the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America
Brown University
Tune: America. Title from caption.
Ode: Once again by the walls of fair Harvard we meet
Brown University
Broadsheet with one poem on each side. Ode to be sung to the tune: Fair Harvard. At end of Ode: S.D.H. Point Shirley, June 23, 1874; at end of Class song: F.T.W. Cambridge, June 24, 1864.
Ode: July 4th, 1877
Brown University
by Charles H. Denison. Air: America.
Ode: God, the creator, thou
Brown University
Air: America. First line same as subtitle.
Ode: come to-night from every field
Brown University
by Frederick Brooks. At head of text: Air, "Lauriger Horatius" At end of text: July 18, 1866.
Ode: come to-night from every field
Brown University
by Frederick Brooks. At head of text: Air, "Lauriger Horatius" At end of text: July 18, 1866.
Ode: Begone, profane, unholy things
Brown University
First line same as subtitle.
Ode, written on the occasion of the Thanksgiving festival: at Sacramento City, Nov. 30th, 1850
Brown University
Pages [3] and [4] blank. Air: "Auld Lang Syne."
Ode, written for the Sixteenth Triennial Festival of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association
Brown University
by T.W. Parsons, Esq. Within double line border.