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.
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Items in this collection

O lovers fond, O foolish play!

Pages [2] and [4] blank. Printed in purple on white paper. At head of title on page [1] illustration of harp and lute. Title from first line of four-line poem on page [1] On page [3]: Miss Wheeler invites you the a play within a play, Aucassin and Nicolette as spoken by the court of King Rene March [blank] at eight o'clock. Miss Wheeler was probably Mary Colman Wheeler, the founder and head of Miss Wheeler's School in Providence.

O Lord, our God, whose all-embracing love

Text of hymn in five four-line stanzas. Title from first line. Author's name and place and date of publication from ms. notation on Brown University copy.

O Lord, I done done: Negro spiritual

arranged by Edward Boatner. For voice and piano in key of A♭ major. Caption title. "Negro spiritual from the singing of Rev. J. McNeal, Kansas City, Mo."--P. 2. Advertising copy. As sung by: Roland Hayes. Advertisement for songbooks: p. [6] Cover illustration: floral border design / AI. Also published in key of F (original key) First line of text: O Lord, I done done.

O land of mine: patriotic song

words and music by Chas. L.H. Wagner. For medium voice and piano. Caption title. Imprint covered by label: Boston, Mass. : Paramount Music Co. Verse 3 printed as text.

O land of hope and freedom: patriotic song

lyric by Wm H. Gardner ; music by George Lowell Tracy. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisements for other songs: p. [2, 5, 6] Also published for: quartet, male, female and mixed voices, trio and two part (unchanged voices) First line of text: O land of hope and freedom.

O innocent child

O innocent child

Brown University

Title from first line. French fold; printed on double leaves. Received as gift in 1968; publication date supplied by donor.

O give me a home by the sea

Within ornamental border. At end of text: Copies of this song, with piano accompaniment may be procured of Mr. Blanchard. Title same as first line.

O fair dove, O fond dove

Printed in colors on heavy paper; text on verso in black. On recto colored illustration of young woman holding dove, captioned: O fair dove. Poem in two twelve-line stanzas on verso. Caption title. Author's name not on item. Cigarette card advertising tobacco made by W. Duke, Sons & Co., branch of the American Tobacco Co., New York. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

O Charlie said the loving maid

Title from first line. Advertising card. Cut of man and woman on moonlit beach at head of text; when held to the light, image of sewing machine from verso appears in moon.

O Captain! My Captain!

O Captain! My Captain!

Brown University

Page [4] blank. On cover: First draft manuscript of O Captain! My Captain! Written by Walt Whitman on the death of Abraham Lincoln and now printed in memory of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1917-1963. Variant of broadsides (HB23655 and HB22592) in the John Hay Library.

O Captain! my Captain!

O Captain! my Captain!

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Printed in red and black. On cover: A keepsake to celebrate the small exhibition of Walt Whitman materials from the collection of Mr. Charles E. Feinberg held at the Grolier Club February 5 - March 30, 1964. First draft manuscript [facsimile] of O Captain! My Captain!

O Canada

O Canada

Brown University

"F.G.S. 1st Canadians. France 1915."

O Abie sails over the ocean

Song and prose passage oppose immigration of Jews into the United States. Song and prose passage oppose immigration of Jews into the United States. Title from first line of poem on recto. Broadsheet; poetry on recto, prose on verso beginning: Excerpt from the Journal of Charles Pinckney of South Carolina. Text of song in five four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Go back! Go back! Prose passage on recto purports to be passage from Pinckney's journal quoting anti-Jewish speech by Benjamin Franklin. Suggested place of publication and date from ms. notation on Brown University copy; mention of Jewish "refugees" being admitted to Great Britain, France and the United States indicates the late 1930's as date of composition of song.

Nur alleine Jesus

Nur alleine Jesus

Brown University

At end of text: Ephrata: gedruckt bey Jacob Ruch. Printed in two columns; line of type ornaments below each poem. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.