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 country

My country

Brown University

by Dr. Dan Harris, Raleigh, N.C. Printed in dark blue on glossy white paper. Text of song in two four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Stand up, stand up, all nations of the earth. Publication date from Library of Congress stamp on Brown University copy.

My Christmas wreath

My Christmas wreath

Brown University

Pages [2, 4] blank. On cover: red and green holly wreath. Date from Library of Congress copyright stamp.

My Christmas wish to you

by Francis J. Duddy. Poetry. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and acquisition date of Brown University copy.

My Christmas wish

My Christmas wish

Brown University

Unfolded shape: parallelogram; folded into thirds; as folded: title in gold with hand-painted holly spray on front. At end of text: Charles Keene Hammitt, Trenton N.J. Copyright, 1917.

My Christmas greeting

My Christmas greeting

Brown University

Shirley Wynne. Broadsheet printed in colors on heavy white paper. On recto colored illustration of King Charles spaniel with front legs on windowsill; caption on sill: A happy Christmas to you. Title from verso. On verso within ornamental border six-line poem. At end of text: Copyright Shirley Wynne. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

My choc'late soldier Sammy boy: song

words and music by Egbert Van Alstyne. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "You'll be welcome as flowers in the Maytime" and other music: p. [4] Cover illustration: soldiers parading along river quay / Starmer.

My choc'late soldier Sammy boy: song

words and music by Egbert Van Alstyne. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "You'll be welcome as flowers in the Maytime" and other music: p. [4] Cover illustration: soldiers parading along river quay / Starmer.

My choc'late soldier Sammy boy: song

words and music by Egbert Van Alstyne. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "You'll be welcome as flowers in the Maytime" and other music: p. [4] Cover illustration: soldiers parading along river quay / Starmer.

My boy

My boy

Brown University

words by Frances Tileston Breese ; music by Bruno Huhn. March for high voice and piano in D major. Cover title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [6] Also published for: high voice in C major (original key), medium voice in B♭ major, and medium high voice in C major.

My boy

My boy

Brown University

words by Frances Tileston Breese ; music by Bruno Huhn. March for medium voice and piano in B♭ major. Cover title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [6] Also published for: high voice in C major (original key), high voice in D major, and medium high voice in C major.

My boots

My boots

Brown University

Printed in blue. Not later than 1972 (acquired December 1972).

My Black Lou

My Black Lou

Brown University

arr. by George Lowell Tracy; words and music by C.E. Billings For voice and piano Caption title "To Horace C. Pratt"--Cover Cover illustration: drawing of an Afro-American woman

My bit-of-a-girl: (all day long I think of you)

words by Leslie Stewart ; music by Malcolm Mackenzie. For voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [6] Also published for: orchestra parts. Parts available for orchestra.

My big little soldier boy

lyric by Wilbur D. Nesbit ; music by Mabelle Carolyn Church. For high voice and piano. Caption title. Dedicated to: Miss Carolina White. Cover illustration: boy playing with toy soldiers / Dorothy Dulin. Also published for: medium voice and low voice.

My big little soldier boy

lyric by Wilbur D. Nesbit ; music by Mabelle Carolyn Church. For medium voice and piano. Caption title. Dedicated to: Miss Carolina White. Advertisement for another song: p. [8] Cover illustration: by playing with toy soldiers / Dorothy Dulin. Also published for: low voice and high voice. First line of text: Dear little boy, with your soldiers at play.

My Bible and I

My Bible and I

Brown University

Poem in four eight-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: D.W. Whittle. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

My Bible and I

My Bible and I

Brown University

Poem in four eight-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: D.W. Whittle. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

My Bible and I

My Bible and I

Brown University

Poem in four eight-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: D.W. Whittle. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

My Bible and I

My Bible and I

Brown University

1 broadsheet. On verso: "This is to certify that the holder has contributed twenty-five cents to the Amanda Smith Industrual Home for Colored Orphan Children. North Harvey, Ill."