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

My flag

My flag

Brown University

Broadsheet printed in red and blue on recto, black on verso. At left of text on recto illustration of United States flag; red border of type ornament on other three sides. Poem on recto, prose text on verso explaining author's economic plan. At end of poem: Claudius R. Dodge, Salt Lake City. Suggested publication date from date stamp on Brown University copy.

My first gray hair

My first gray hair

Brown University

At end of text: Rev. Charles H. Plummer. No. 108 John Street, Providence, R.I.

My Father

My Father

Brown University

Printed in gold on heavy cream paper. Title repeated at head of text. Poem in five four-line stanzas, each headed by "My Father" or variant of that phrase. At end of text: Copyright applied for by Raymond B. Dunlap. Date from Library of Congress date stamp on Brown University copy.

My enemy

My enemy

Brown University

Pages [1,4] within single line border. At end of text: Unity/Universality..

My enemy

My enemy

Brown University

Pages [1,4] within single line border. At end of text: Unity/Universality..

My enemy

My enemy

Brown University

Pages [1,4] within single line border. At end of text: Unity/Universality..

My domain: sonnet

My domain: sonnet

Brown University

At end of text: B.A.J. Printed on grey; verso is pink blotter. With illustrated initial block.

My Dixie land daisy

My Dixie land daisy

Brown University

words & music by Max Hoffmann For voice and piano "The song success of Ned. Wayburn's Minstrel Misses" "As featured nightly ... at the New York Theatre Roof Garden" Title page illustration: daisies; photo. of Ned. Wayburn's Minstrel Misses in blackface Advertisements for: "Star dance folio" on p. [2]; 11 popular folios on p. [6]

My dear

My dear

Brown University

Pages [3] and [4] blank.

My daddy's star

My daddy's star

Brown University

lyric by Ivan Reid ; music by Peter De Rose. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of a child looking at a star and thinking of her daddy / EE Walton.

My daddy's coming home

My daddy's coming home

Brown University

words and music by David W. Cooper. For voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for "There's a picture in my memory": p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of baby in crib / White Photo, Boston.

My daddy's coming home

My daddy's coming home

Brown University

words and music by David W. Cooper. For voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for another song: p. [4]

My creed of love

My creed of love

Brown University

Printed in red and black on heavy tan paper within red single-line border crossed at corners. Type-signed at end: M.L.S. Butterworth. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

My creed of love

My creed of love

Brown University

Printed in red and black on heavy tan paper within red single-line border crossed at corners. Type-signed at end: M.L.S. Butterworth. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

My creed

My creed

Brown University

Printed in green and pink. At end of text: Published by The Cullen Foundation For The Betterment of Humanity.