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

Naylor's air furnaces, or house-warmer

Pages [2]-[3] blank. Includes poem advertising furnaces and another advertising kitchen ranges. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Nations' peace

Nations' peace

Brown University

Within double line border. At end of text: Patriotic National Poem--approved by the President of the United States.

National statistics

National statistics

Brown University

Arranged by M. J. Greene. Broadsheet printed on heavy paper in one and two columns divided by single line on recto within double-line border; on verso statistical tables within double-line border. At end of text below lower border on recto: McFarland & Thomson, Job Printers, 311 Walnut St., Philada.

National memorial hymn

National memorial hymn

Brown University

J. Edmund Estes. To be sung to the tune: America. Printed in blue against a colored background of ragged American flag; music between title and words. Song in five numbered seven-line stanzas.

National memorial hymn

National memorial hymn

Brown University

J. Edmund Estes. To be sung to the tune: America. Printed in blue against a colored background of ragged American flag; music between title and words. Song in five numbered seven-line stanzas.

National memorial hymn

National memorial hymn

Brown University

J. Edmund Estes. To be sung to the tune: America. Printed in blue against a colored background of ragged American flag; music between title and words. Song in five numbered seven-line stanzas.

National Memorial Church of "The Prince of Peace."

1 broadsheet. At head of title engraving of proposed church to be erected on Gettysburg battlefield, inscribed in lower left corner: Crosscup & West, Phila. On verso poem entitled The nation's dead. 1861 to 1865, printed in two columns divided by single line. At head of text of poem: The following beautiful poem appeared originally in the Round table. On recto and verso appeals by A.E. Tortat and R.H. Sayre for contributions toward inscribing soldiers' names on proposed building.

National hymns of America and France

Poetry. Colored illustrations of crossed French and American flags on page [1], shields on pages [2] and [3], printer's mark on page [4] Text in French; editorial matter in English. In lower margin page [2]: Copyright 1921, by Philippe de La Rochelle. At end of first song: P. de La Rochelle. New-York, le 1er janvier 1921.

National hymns of America and France

Poetry. Colored illustrations of crossed French and American flags on page [1], shields on pages [2] and [3], printer's mark on page [4] Text in French; editorial matter in English. In lower margin page [2]: Copyright 1921, by Philippe de La Rochelle. At end of first song: P. de La Rochelle. New-York, le 1er janvier 1921.

National hymns of America and France

Poetry. Colored illustrations of crossed French and American flags on page [1], shields on pages [2] and [3], printer's mark on page [4] Text in French; editorial matter in English. In lower margin page [2]: Copyright 1921, by Philippe de La Rochelle. At end of first song: P. de La Rochelle. New-York, le 1er janvier 1921.

National hymn: Our fathers' God, to Thee

Poetry. Pages [2] through 4 blank. Embossed in upper right corner of pages [1] and [3]: Carson's Congress. To be sung to the tune: America. At end of text Wm. M. Rodman. Providence, R.I., January 15, 1861.

National hymn: Our fathers' God, to Thee

Poetry. Pages [2] through 4 blank. Embossed in upper right corner of pages [1] and [3]: Carson's Congress. To be sung to the tune: America. At end of text Wm. M. Rodman. Providence, R.I., January 15, 1861.

National hymn

National hymn

Brown University

by Geo. Osborne Jenness. To be sung to the tune: Old coronation. Text of song in eight four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

National hymn

National hymn

Brown University

by Geo. Osborne Jenness. To be sung to the tune: Old coronation. Text of song in eight four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

National holiday! April 30, 1889

Within double-line borders on all pages, with ornamental corners on page [1] only. Below title illustration of building inscribed: 1886 Memorial Hall, signed: H.W. Burns Eng. Includes program of celebration at Memorial Hall including the reading of the muster roll of the soldiers of the Revolution and declamations by schoolchildren, with the text of two songs; advertisements on page [4]

National Federation of State Poetry Societies, Inc

Broadsheet printed in brown on mustard-colored paper folded to create [6] pages. At head of title on page [1] reproduction of photograph of ancient Athenian coin depicting an owl with an olove twig. Lists past and present officers and gives rules and prizes for 1967-1968 poetry contest.