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

Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored breast

Broadsheet advertising card printed in colors; text on verso in black. On recto colored lithograph of Uncle Sam shaking hands with Indian man while other Indians watch, beside covered wagon containing boxes labeled: Higgins Soap; caption at lower right: The only way to secure lasting peace. On verso poem promising to wash and civilize Indians by giving them Higgins' German Laundry Soap. Title from first line of poem on verso. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Liza, I'se your man

Liza, I'se your man

Brown University

words and music by Jas. R. Homer For voice and piano Caption title Sung by: M. Edith White Dedicated to: John Hancock Wills Advertisements for other songs: p. [2-6] Cover illustration: drawing of Afro-American man and woman

Liza loves you

Liza loves you

Brown University

words and music by Chas. H. Sheffer of Lester & Allen's Big Minstrels, as sung in all the principal theatres of the country in their latest production entitled "The wrong girl" For voice and piano Cover title At head of title: Sheffer & Blakely's latest success Advertisements for other music: cover and p. [6]

Lives of great men all remind us

Postcard printed in purple within red border of type ornaments. At head of title reproduction of photograph of statue of seated man captioned: Longfellow Monument, Portland, Me. Title from first line of two four-line stanzas from Longfellow's A psalm of life. Type-signed at end of poem: Longfellow. Suggested publication date from postmark on Brown University copy.

Little Willie

Little Willie

Brown University

Text of song in three four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Little Willie was a darling. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Little Willie

Little Willie

Brown University

Poem. At end of text: Eugene Field Oct. 19, 1895. Version with spelling "curly" in verse 5, line 6. Below text: Field said his wife took the boy away .. Printed area: 16 x 5.5 cm. Printed on newsprint. First line: When Willie was a little boy.

Little Will

Little Will

Brown University

Within ornamental border. At end of text: M.L.V.W. - Price five cents. Sold by the children's friend, A.W. Scott, Augusta, Me.

Little Will

Little Will

Brown University

At end of text: M.L.V.W. - Published by the American Tract Society ..

Little Topsy's song

Little Topsy's song

Brown University

words by Eliza Cook; music by Asa B. Hutchinson For voice, piano, and men's chorus Caption title Sung by: the Hutchinson Family Dedicated to: Mother Text refers to characters in "Uncle Tom's cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe Cover illustration: floral border design "Greene Eng."--Cover

Little Tommy Tucker

Little Tommy Tucker

Brown University

Broadsheet printed in colors on white paper; text in red and black. On recto colored illustrations of woman serving rolls to a baby and of container of Ko-Nut; on verso colored illustrations of fisherman looking through window at woman holding fish on platter and of Ko-Nut container. Advertising card for Ko-Nut, a "pure cocoanut product for shortening and frying," uses adaptations of nursery rhymes. Publisher from label on illustrated containers. Suggested range of publication dates because similar Ko-Nut advertisement (Brown University copy HB35420) is entitled "Twentieth century Mother Goose" and from internal evidence.

Little Toby's grave

Little Toby's grave

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments. At head of text: The following lines were written by the Hermit of Erving Castle, in memory of a favorite cat, Toby ..

Little Tad: ballad

Little Tad: ballad

Brown University

Words and music by J.W. Turner. Cover title. Ballad, for medium voice and piano.

Little sunless poems from Canada

Two strips of paper (33 x 11 cm.) pasted to form cross; folded into square. Colophon with edition statement in back. Printed in purple on charcoal paper. Title on inside left flap: Coulors of blackness.

Little sunless poems from Canada

Two strips of paper (33 x 11 cm.) pasted to form cross; folded into square. Colophon with edition statement in back. Printed in purple on charcoal paper. Title on inside left flap: Coulors of blackness.

Little sunless poems from Canada

Two strips of paper (33 x 11 cm.) pasted to form cross; folded into square. Colophon with edition statement in back. Printed in purple on charcoal paper. Title on inside left flap: Coulors of blackness.

Little ship Sunbeam

Little ship Sunbeam

Brown University

Hand colored sea-scape at head of text; landscape at end of text. Manuscript text with illuminated initial.

Little Sammy

Little Sammy

Brown University

Printed on pink paper within border of type ornament sections. Poem in ten four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of text within border: M. A. Y. Suggested publication date from dealer.

Little Sam:: a new and popular Negro song and chorus

written and composed by Will. S. Hays For voice, 4-part chorus, and piano Cover title "As sung by all the best minstrel troupes"--Cover Dedicated "To my friend"--Cover Advertisement for other music: p. [6] Cover illustration: lithograph of Black boy marching. Cover printed by Ehrgott, Forbrier & Co., lith., Cincinnati

Little Sam

Little Sam

Brown University

words and music by Will S. Hays For voice, 4-part chorus, and piano Caption title Advertisements for other music: p. [1-2], [42]