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:
- Blondie Robinson collection of African-American Minstrel and Vaudeville photographs
- Ciné-Tracts
- Dupee Fireworks Collection
- Fernando Birri Archive of Multimedia Arts - Escritos
- H. Adrian Smith Magic Objects Collection
- Harris Broadsides
- Julie Adams Strandberg Collection: 50 Years of Dance at Brown University
- Lincoln Sheet Music
- Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830s-1920s)
- Rites and Reason Theatre
- Songsters and Hymnals from the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
- World War I Sheet Music
- Yiddish Sheet Music
Items in this collection
Long Island farmer on the Mount of Olives
Brown University
Within border of type ornaments. Facsimile autograph.
Long Island farmer on the last hours of the year 1860
Brown University
Long Island farmer on the fox oaks
Brown University
Dated "Nov. 26, 1861."
Long Island Farmer on the fall of Richmond
Brown University
Long Island Farmer on the fall of Charleston
Brown University
Signed, in print, at end: Bloodgood H. Cutter, Little Neck, L.I., Feb. 1865.
Long Island Farmer on the death of L. Loder, Esq
Brown University
At head of title: Long Island Farmer Poet. Facsimile autograph.
Long Island Farmer on the death of his beloved wife, March 24, 1881
Brown University
At head of title: In memoriam.
Long Island Farmer on the death of Benjamin P. Allen
Brown University
Long Island Farmer on the burning of his mill: on the morning of December, and its history
Brown University
Printed in two columns divided by single line. Contains section within poem with title "To the Painter" Internal evidence suggests an 1880's imprint date; day given at end fell on Saturday in 1889. Type-signed at end of text: Bloodgood H. Cutter. Little Neck, L.I., Dec. 28th.
Long Island Farmer on the boys' body guard
Brown University
At head of title: Long Island Farmer Poet. Facsimile autograph.
Long Island Farmer on Sim's poem "Ostler Jo."
Brown University
Facsimile autograph. Signed, in print, at end: Little Neck, Long Island, 1886 Boodgood [sic] H. Cutter. Vignette portrait of author at head of title, with caption: Bloodgood H. Cutter, The Long Island Farmer Poet.
Long Island Farmer on King Cotton
Brown University
Long Island Farmer on John Bull alias British lion
Brown University
Long Island Farmer on congressmen
Brown University
Signed, in print, at end: Bloodgood H. Cutter, Little Neck L.I.
Long Island Farmer on "People will talk."
Brown University
Facsimile autograph below portrait.
Long boy
Brown University
words by William Herschell ; music by Barclay Walker ; scenery by Gaar Williams. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Cover illustration: U.S. soldier leaving farm and family / Gaar Williams.
Long boy
Brown University
words by William Herschell ; music by Barclay Walker ; scenery by Gaar Williams. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for other music: p. 3. Advertisement for "Indiana" and other songs: p. [4] printed in green ink. Cover illustration: U.S. soldier leaving farm and family / Gaar Williams.
Long boy
Brown University
words by William Herschell ; music by Barclay Walker ; scenery by Gaar Williams. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for other music: p. 3. Advertisement for "Indiana" and other songs: p. [4] printed in green ink. Cover illustration: U.S. soldier leaving farm and family / Gaar Williams.
Long ago and now
Brown University
Printed in green on white paper. Poem in four four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: N.B. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Long ago
Brown University
Within ornamental border.
Lonesome lake
Brown University
Lomir sich iberbeten
Brown University
Lomir sich iberbeten
Brown University
Lola Hatcher (Brown Class of 1976), Rites and Reason Theatre
Brown University
Lola Hatcher rehearses her one-woman show "Who's Got Her Own". Lola Hatcher rehearses her one-woman show "Who's Got Her Own". Lola Hatcher (Brown Class of 1976), Rites and Reason Theatre, University Archives Subject Photographs, 1-Q, Brown University Library Digital object made available by: Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)
Lola Hatcher (Brown Class of 1976), Rites and Reason Theatre
Brown University
A shot of a stage hand while Lola Hatcher rehearses her one-woman show "Who's Got Her Own". A shot of a stage hand while Lola Hatcher rehearses her one-woman show "Who's Got Her Own". Lola Hatcher (Brown Class of 1976), Rites and Reason Theatre, University Archives Subject Photographs, 1-Q, Brown University Library Digital object made available by: Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)
Local color
Brown University
Lob= und Dank=Lied, zum Neuen-jahr 1794: für die Schuljugend, abzusingen in Warwick Taunschip Lancäster Caunty
Brown University
Printed in two columns. At head of text: Aufgesetzt von einem Freund der Schuljugend. Text of hymn in nine numbered four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning (except in last stanza): Zion, Zion rufe hier.