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.

This collection has the following subsets:

Items in this collection

Mother is the bravest hero of them all

Mother is the bravest hero of them all

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words by Schuyler Greene ; music by Alfred Solman. For voice and piano. Caption title. "To the mothers of the world." Advertisement for "If I could live to love you": p. [6] Cover illustration: drawing of mother, with vignette scenes of domestic life and war scene forming border / De Takacs.

Mother

Mother

Brown University

Decorative border along right and left margins. Printed in brown.

Mother

Mother

Brown University

Printed in black and red. Reproduction of "Whistler's Mother" at head of text.

Mother

Mother

Brown University

Within ornamental border.

Mother

Mother

Brown University

Within double line border with corner ornaments. Printed in two columns divided by single line.

Mother

Mother

Brown University

Decorative border along right and left margins. Printed in brown.

Mother

Mother

Brown University

Printed in black and red. Reproduction of "Whistler's Mother" at head of text.

Mother

Mother

Brown University

lyrics by Rida Johnson Young ; music by Sigmund Romberg. For voice and piano. Caption title. From musical comedy: Her soldier boy. Advertisements for other songs: cover and p. [6] Cover illustration: drawing of soldiers marching.

Mother

Mother

Brown University

lyrics by Rida Johnson Young ; music by Sigmund Romberg. For voice and piano. Caption title. From musical comedy: Her soldier boy. Advertisements for other songs: cover and p. [8] Cover illustration: drawing of soldiers marching.

Mother

Mother

Brown University

Decorative border along right and left margins. Printed in brown.

Mother

Mother

Brown University

At end of text: Homespun poet.

Mother

Mother

Brown University

Hand-colored illustration.

Mother

Mother

Brown University

Facsimile autograph.

Mother

Mother

Brown University

Helen. Printed at the end of the poem: "Mother's Day, May 9, 1926"

Mother

Mother

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments. At end of text: Vancouver, B.C.

Mother

Mother

Brown University

Decorative border along right and left margins. Printed in brown.

Mother

Mother

Brown University

At head: Hinson Memorial Baptist Church ... Portland, Oregon.

Mother

Mother

Brown University

Printed in brown on tan paper in postcard format. Ivy plant in brown across upper corners and top, and at bottom left. At end of text: Copyright 1911 Emma E. Koehler, Chicago 65. No. 65 of untitled series.

Mother

Mother

Brown University

At end of text: Homespun poet.

Mother

Mother

Brown University

Within decorative ornaments.