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.
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Items in this collection

Little one

Little one

Brown University

Poem in seven numbered four-line stanzas.

Little neutral dog: (O'Day and peasants)

words by Rida Johnson Young ; music by Emmerich Kalman. For solo voice, chorus and piano. Caption title. Sung by the characters 0'Day and peasants in the operetta "Her soldier boy" Advertisement for other music: p. [11]

Little Morris

Little Morris

Brown University

Pages [3,4] blank. Within mourning border. At end of text: J.J.B. New Haven, May 5, 1862. First line: Lovely little Morris.

Little more cider:: a favorite song

written by Austin Hart For voice and piano, with 4-part chorus Cover title "Arranged for the pianoforte."--Caption, p. 3 Cover engraved by Greene Also published for voice and guitar Library's cop. 1 has price, "25 cents net" in lower right corner of cover

Little more cider:: a favorite song

written by Austin Hart;[arranged for the guitar by Converse.] For voice and guitar Cover title Cover engraved by Greene Also published for voice and piano Library's copy has retailer's stamp on cover: Amsden & Cangill, Music & Fancy Bezaar, 137 Jefferson Ave., Detroit

Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet

Broadsheet; advertising card printed on heavy card stock. On recto text superimposed on upper part of colored illustration of baby sitting beside large can of Nestlé's Milk Food; spider and web at upper right. On verso prose information about product headed: What is Nestlé's Milk Food? Poem on recto is adaptation of nursery rhyme. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Little Miss Muffet

Little Miss Muffet

Brown University

Broadsheet printed in colors on white paper; text in red and black. On recto colored illustrations of little girl eating crullers and of container of Ko-Nut; on verso colored illustrations of little boy eating birthday cake 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 Jack Horner looked very wise

Title from first line. Postcard. Color illustration of boy and clowns. Poem printed in blue is adaptation of nursey rhyme as advertisement for Humpty-Dumpty stockings. Date from internal evidence.

Little grains of Soapine

Broadsheet printed on heavy paper. On recto uncaptioned colored illustration of flowers on green ground. On verso illustration of box of Soapine soap powder and poem in eight lines. Title from first line on verso.

Little grains of Soapine

Broadsheet printed on heavy paper. On recto uncaptioned colored illustration of flowers on green ground. On verso illustration of box of Soapine soap powder and poem in eight lines. Title from first line on verso.

Little gold star: song

Little gold star: song

Brown University

words by Will M. Maupin ; music by J.A. Parks. For medium voice and piano. Cover title. Dedicated to: John McCormack. Cover illustration: gold service star.

Little girl in Belgian blue: song

words by Florence M. Benjamin ; music by Jules Brazil. For voice and piano. Cover title. Cover illustration: soldier waving to a girl.

Little French mother, goodbye!

by "Jack" Caddigan and "Chick" Story. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for this song on sound disc and player piano roll: p. 2-3. Advertisement for two other songs, in black ink: p. [4] Cover illustration: soldier embracing French woman / Norman Rockwell, copr. Life Pub. Co. Also published for: male or mixed voices, band or orchestra.

Little French baby: song

the words and music by Douglas Grant. For voice and piano in F major. Cover title. Advertisements for other songs: p. [6-8] Also published in the key of D major.

Little French baby: song

the words and music by Douglas Grant. For voice and piano in F major. Cover title. Advertisements for other songs: p. [6-8] Also published in the key of D major.

Little fraud

Little fraud

Brown University

Broadsheet. On recto poem within border of type ornament sections; advertising material in margins. Poem in three stanzas with chorus beginning: Leetle Fraud, (she) chews terbaccer. On verso wood-engraving of black man ringing handbell. Text on verso begins: Star Metal and Paper Stock Co. 50 Ann Street. Cash paid for rags, paper and old metal in large or small qualities. Colophon on verso below rule: William F. Kost, Steam Job Printer, 12 and 14 Spruce Street, New York. Suggested publication date from dealer.

Little fishermaiden

Little fishermaiden

Brown University

Describes how Neptune saves girl from drowning, though her boat is wrecked. Describes how Neptune saves girl from drowning, though her boat is wrecked. Title on page [1] within single-line border superimposed on illustration of costumed girl on shore holding basket; signed Spedon[?] On pages [2]-[3] printed vertically to be read unfolded words of song in three 6-line stanzas with 5-line refrain beginning: The sea-nymphs sang, the sea-nymphs' voices rang. Advertisement for "Lorillard's Mechanics' Delight tobacco" on page [4] within double-line border; it begins: Lorillard's Mechanics' Delight tobacco is the best chew and smoke. Cover title. Within lower border on page [1]: P. Lorillard & Cos song album. At head of text on page [2]: Copyright, 1888, by Wm. A. Pond & Co. Suggested range of dates from internal evidence and from copyright date of song. Translation of words of song entitled Das kleine Fischermädchen from operetta Incognito by Ludolf Waldmann.

Little Eva's vision

Little Eva's vision

Brown University

words by Sidney Dyer; arranged by H. Vasouver For voice and piano Caption title Arranger's name appears as Henri Vasouver on cover Also published for: voice and guitar

Little drops of water

Little drops of water

Brown University

Printed in black on heavy paper within border of type ornament sections in green. At head of text cut of little girl and dog on shore. Title from first line. Poem in four four-line stanzas. Sometimes entitled Little things and attributed to Mrs. T.J. Cobham and also to Ebenezer C. Brewer.

Little Daisy

Little Daisy

Brown University

Pages [2]-[4] blank. Within mourning border. Poem in four four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Little Clay Roses

Little Clay Roses

Brown University

Pen drawings and lettering. At end of text: I love wherefore I am.

Little Charley

Little Charley

Brown University

Pages [2]-[4] blank. Within ornamental border with heavy black lines at top and bottom. At head of text: Born 6-28-1886. Died 2-14-1887. At end of text: Mrs. Fannie B. Gale. By her sister, Carra L. McKnight.

Little Breeches

Little Breeches

Brown University

John Hay. Page [4] blank. Poetry. Sewn into wrapper with reproduction of portrait of Hay; title beneath: John Hay Little Breeches. Cover title. Suggested publication date because of pencil inscription on Brown Univ. copy. At end of text on page [3]: John Hay. A Pike County view of special Providence. Not in BAL.