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

Lorraine: (my beautiful Alsace Lorraine)

words by Alfred Bryan ; music by Fred Fisher. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "In the land o' yamo yamo": p. [4] War slogans: p. 2-3. Cover illustration: drawing of allegorical figure of French liberty, a woman, and a soldier / André C. de Takacs.

Lord, Lord, Lord

Lord, Lord, Lord

Brown University

One of 200 copies. Bell, Books at Brown, May 1963, p. 10. Published for the friends of the Jargon press, December, 1959. Handset and printed by Igal Roodenko. 200 copies printed.

Lord, if thou thy grace impart

Printed in red on heavy glossy white paper. At head of title illustration of three adults and little girl around table; in lower margin illustration of globe and books. Title from first line. Poem in two four-line stanzas. Suggested publication date from ms. notation on Brown University copy.

Lord Lovell: and, Nothing at all

Printed in two columns divided by line of advertising with type ornaments on each end: Sold wholesale and retail, corner of Cross and Fulton Streets - Boston. Rutter was listed at above address from 1829 to 1834.

Lord Bakeman: who was taken by the Turks, and put in prison, and was afterwards released by the Jailor's daughter, wh...

Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by line of advertising between type ornaments and single line at each end, within border of type ornaments. Printed vertically between columns: Sold wholesale and retail corner of Cross & Fulton sts. Boston. William Rutter had a shop on Cross St. between 1829 and 1834. First line: In India liv'd a noble Lord.

Lord Bakeman: who was taken by the Turks and put in prison, and was afterwards released by the jailor's daughter, who...

Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments within border of type ornaments. At head of first column wood-engraving of ship captioned: He sailed East, and he sailed West, Until he came to the Turkish shore. In lower margin: Sold wholesale and retail by J. G. Hunt, at Song Depot and Book stand, South side City Wharf. Hunt used this address in 1836. First line: In India lived a noble Lord.

Lord Alfred: an elegy

Lord Alfred: an elegy

Brown University

Pages [2,4] blank. Poetry in twelve four-line stanzas; first published in 1887. At head of text Ovid quotation: "Sic ubi fata vocant ... " At end of text: - T.W. Parson.

Lord Alfred: an elegy

Lord Alfred: an elegy

Brown University

Pages [2,4] blank. Poetry in twelve four-line stanzas; first published in 1887. At head of text Ovid quotation: "Sic ubi fata vocant ... " At end of text: - T.W. Parson.

Lookout Mountain

Lookout Mountain

Brown University

by Lon A. Warner. Broadsheet printed in colors on heavy white paper in postcard format; text on recto in black, on verso in blue. At head of title reproduction of color landscape photograph; at right of text reproduction of color photograph of waterfall. Poem in four eight-line stanzas on recto. On verso information about Civil War battles entitled: Military history of Chattanooga. "Lookout series no. 13"--Verso. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Looking up at leaves

Looking up at leaves

Brown University

Pages [2] and [4] blank. Printed in black and green. "Christmas 1963."

Looking backward--1895: a parody

Parody of Woosworth's The old oaken bucket attacks McKinley and praises Cleveland. Parody of Woosworth's The old oaken bucket attacks McKinley and praises Cleveland. Printed on heavy tan paper. At head of title: No. 2. Poem in three eight-line stanzas with two-line chorus beginning: The old shoddy tariff, the iron-ore tariff. At end of text: Issued by the Young Men's Democratic Club of Massachusetts, 127A Tremont St., Boston, September, 1892.

Look what my boy got in France

words by Will Dillon ; music by Con Conrad. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: woman with war medal on wrist.

Look what my boy got in France

words by Will Dillon ; music by Con Conrad. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: woman with war medal on wrist.