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.

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Lines written impromptu, and affectionately: inscribed to M.M. Moore, of Lancaster, Penn., (who lost his sight in California, in 1857)

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by his old friend, Rev. C. Hartley, Ashland, O. Within ornamental border.

Lines written for the United States telegraph, on the death of Mrs. Jackson

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Elegy in nine stanzas; first lines: She is gone! and the Seraphs of endless life/ Have sung her welcome to the shore. At end of text: B. Rachel Jackson died at the Hermitage on Dec. 22, 1828. The United States telegraph, published at Washington, D.C. by Duff Green, first reported the news of her death in the issue of Jan. 7, 1829. Printed on silk. Printed area, including mourning border of type ornaments, measures 27.2 x 14.5 cm. Not in Shoemaker.

Lines written for the silver wedding of Col. & Mrs. A.D. Hatch: May 1, 1863

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Page [4] blank. Printed in purple within single-line border with ornamental corners on pages [1]-[3] Poem in six four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of poem: B.P.S. Boston, May 1, 1863.

Lines written for the farewell testimonial to Rev. Olympia Brown, September 28, 1869

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Pages [1,4] blank. Within single line border with corner ornaments.

Lines written for the Dorchester Second Parish Sabbath School: and sung at their celebration, Fast-day evening, April 7, 1831

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Within ornamental border.

Lines written for and read at the funeral services of Frederic Fessenden Thayer, January 15th, 1881

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by Rev. M.J. Savage. Page [4] blank.

Lines written expressly for the occasion of the burning of the Mortgage Deed by the Odd Fellows Building Association, Inc. ... in the city of Providence, R.I. ... Nov. 11, 1909

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Tune: America.

Lines written by Perry Davis, for his Sabbath school scholars

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Page [4] blank.

Lines written by Mrs. L. Maria Child, and sung at the Music Hall, on the 26th National Anti-Slavery Subscription Anniversary, Jan. 25, 1860

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Tune: Hebron.

Lines written by Mrs. Henry Lee on the death of Baldwin Hart: who for many years was superintendent of the Sunday School connected with the First Congregational Church of Madison and recited by Master Timothy J. Lee at the Sunday School concert held April 30th, 1865

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At end of text: A.D. Lee.

Lines written by Dexter Smith: and read by Miss Margaret Anglin, of Charles Frohman's Empire Theatre Company of New York, on the occasion of the last performance ever given in the Boston Museum, on Monday, June 1, 1903, prior to the demolition of the building

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A tribute to managers, actresses and actors associated with the Boston Museum playhouse, founded by Moses Kimball. At end of text: Alfred Mudge & Son, Printers, Boston. First line: Ring down the final curtain. Stay! A word.

Lines written by Dexter Smith: and read by Miss Margaret Anglin, of Charles Frohman's Empire Theatre Company of New York, on the occasion of the last performance ever given in the Boston Museum, on Monday, June 1, 1903, prior to the demolition of the building

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Lines written by Charles Upham, of Putney Vt., on the death of his wife, Hannah Upham: who died December 26th, 1846, aged 28 years, 7 months, and 26 days

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Within border of type ornaments. First line: My companion has gained the blest haven at last.

Lines written by an abused man

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Page [1]: Poetry written by a man after being kept nearly eight years in the Worcester Insane Asylum.

Lines written by a young lady after the death of a particular friend

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Printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line. Poem in 15 four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: Mary E. Morehouse. June, 1850.

Lines written at thirty, at forty, and at fifty

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by Mary S. Patterson, dedicated to her friends.

Lines written at the Niagara Falls, on the Canada side, from Table Rock: at 4 1/2 o'clock P.M., 26th July, 1839

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Within border of type ornaments. Poem in three stanzas of varying length. At end of text: J.E. of Sandwich, U.C.

Lines written

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by Mrs. Ellen E. Jack ... widow of Capt. Charles E. Jack, of the Farragut Fleet, U.S. Navy, in honor of General William J. Palmer's gift of the High Drive to the city of Colorado Springs. At end of text: [Author of "The Fate of the Fairy ... "

Lines writen upon the death of two sisters: Ida J. Chapman, aged 13 years, who died Aug. 10th, 1881, and Fanny C. Chapman, aged 10 years, who died Aug. 7th, 1881, at Pequonnoc Bridge, Conn.

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Printed in two columns divided by a single line Poem in 13 four-line stanzas Place of publication suggested because Pequonnoc River flows into Bridgeport Harbour

Lines upon the death of Charles L. Collins: who died suddenly, of diphtheria, on board the U.S.S. Eastport, on the Mississippi, November 7th, 1863, aged 17 years

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Printed in two columns divided by single line within border of type ornament sections. Poem in 17 six-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: Wm. A. Boss.

Lines to the New Year

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Poem in four six-line stanzas within border of type ornaments. Printed area measures: 16.4 x 8.5 cm. At end of text, within lower border: Sheffield, 1869. By Isaac Bacon.

Lines to the memory of Mrs. Lucia Anne Farrand Kent: wife of George Kent, Esq., and president of the Concord Female Anti-slavery Society, who departed this life, February 12, 1838, aged 39 years

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At head of text: "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord." At end of text: M.S.N.

Lines to the memory of Benjamin Vaughan, L.L.D., who recently died in Hallowell, Maine

Lines to Elijah B. & Elizabeth Hedding on the death of their infant daughter, Alice E. Hedding, aged 2 months and 27 days

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Within border of type ornaments. At end of text: Plattsburgh, Nov. 3d, 1858.

Lines to be sung at the meeting of the Yale College Association of Alumni: August 17th, 1842

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Words by Doctor Percival. Printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line. To be sung to the tune: Lenox. Text of song in seven eight-line stanzas.

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