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

Ode, sung on the 4th of July, 1817

To be sung to the tune: The Hermit. For name verification of presentee and college see Dartmouth College General Catalogue (Hanover, N.H., 1900)

Ode, sung on the 4th of July, 1817

To be sung to the tune: The Hermit. For name verification of presentee and college see Dartmouth College General Catalogue (Hanover, N.H., 1900)

Ode, for the anniversary of American independence: July 4th, 1817

Poetry in four stanzas. Sung to the tune: Hail Columbia, happy land! Printed area measures 17.2 x 15.0 cm. According to the inscription in a contemporary hand on the copy held by the American Antiquarian Society, "performed at Worcester, Mass. 1817." Attributed to Edward D. Bangs in the July 9, 1817, issue of the Massachusetts spy, Worcester. Text in two columns divided by single line. Not in Shaw & Shoemaker.

Ode to the celestial spirits

Poem. Caption title. At end of text: July 14, 1907. Isaac P. Noyes. Page [4] blank. First line: In creation's dawn the earth was without form and void--its form was rude.

Ode to the celestial spirits

Poem. Caption title. At end of text: July 14, 1907. Isaac P. Noyes. Page [4] blank. First line: In creation's dawn the earth was without form and void--its form was rude.

Ode to the celestial spirits

Poem. Caption title. At end of text: July 14, 1907. Isaac P. Noyes. Page [4] blank. First line: In creation's dawn the earth was without form and void--its form was rude.

Ode to Sans Souci

Ode to Sans Souci

Brown University

Page [4] blank. At head of text: Read at Union Thanksgiving Dinner in the Pratt Cottage Friday, October 16, 1896.