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.

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Items in this collection

Mount, boys, mount

Mount, boys, mount

Brown University

written & composed by Charles T. Hammond. Cover title. At head of title: To Col. N.B. Lord. For voice and piano.

Mount Daimonji, Amen

Mount Daimonji, Amen

Brown University

Poetry. Printed on cream paper; Japanese character between first two words of title. At end of text: Terence Nemeth. Kyoto 6.70.

Mottoes for victory and peace, 1865

Mottoes for victory and peace, 1865

Brown University

At head of title: News dealers please post one copy in window. Contains 19 mottoes (arranged in 4 groups, each surrounded by ornamental border)

Mothers with little sons

Mothers with little sons

Brown University

by Angela Morgan. Poetry. Printed in blue. Date suggested because of similar blue-lettered broadsides with poems from her poetry books published in 1936. First line: O mothers with little sons.

Mothers of men

Mothers of men

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments. At head of text: Dedicated to the mothers of all nations.

Mothers of France

Mothers of France

Brown University

by Leo Wood. For voice and piano. Caption title. Author's name appears as Leo Woods on cover. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of statue of woman / reproduced by permission of Morris G.J. Poznanski, Paris - New York; cover design with fleurs de lys / E.H. Pfeiffer.

Mothers of America: (you have done your share)

Mothers of America: (you have done your share)

Brown University

words by Harry Ellis ; music by Lew Porter. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Pages 1-2 are unnumbered. "Successfully Sung in Gus. Hill's Minstrels"--Cover. Advertisement for six war songs: p. [2]-3. Advertisement for "Those draftin' blues" and 3 other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of faces of women; photograph of Eva Tanguay / Baker Art Gallery; photograph of Chas. Kent.