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

Liberty Tree

Liberty Tree

Brown University

To be sung to the tune: Gods of the Greeks. Text of song in four eight-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and date of death of John Fellows.

Liberty statue is looking right at you

words by Arthur Guy Empey ; music by Chas. R. McCarron and Carey Morgan. For voice and piano. Caption title. Featured in Gus Hill's Minstrels by J. Francis Brennan. Advertisements for other songs: p. [2-4] Cover illustration: photograph of J. Francis Brennan; drawing of Statue of Liberty / Starmer.

Liberty statue is looking right at you

words by Arthur Guy Empey ; music by Chas. R. McCarron and Carey Morgan. For voice and piano. Caption title. Featured in Gus Hill's Minstrels by J. Francis Brennan. Advertisements for other songs: p. [2-4] Cover illustration: photograph of J. Francis Brennan; drawing of Statue of Liberty / Starmer.

Liberty statue is looking right at you

words by Arthur Guy Empey ; music by Chas. R. McCarron and Carey Morgan. For voice and piano. Caption title. Featured in Gus Hill's Minstrels by J. Francis Brennan. Advertisements for other songs: p. [2-4] Cover illustration: photograph of J. Francis Brennan; drawing of Statue of Liberty / Starmer.

Liberty songs

Liberty songs

Brown University

Broadsheet folded to create [6] pages. Contains text of ten patriotic American and European songs, beginning with The star spangled banner and including Rule, Britannia!, and translations of the Marseillaise and the War hymn of Garibaldi. At head of text: Published for the Liberty Choruses of Connecticut by the Connecticut State Council of Defense. Publication date suggested because of inclusion of songs of World War I allies.

Liberty or death

Liberty or death

Brown University

Within double line border. Poem in seven numbered four-line stanzas.

Liberty forever: marching-song = (Per sempre libertà!)

by Enrico Caruso and Vincenzo Bellezza ; English version by Frederick H. Martens. March for voice and piano. English and Italian words. Cover title. Advertisement for another song: p. [10] Cover illustration: a soldier and sailor saluting the Statue of Liberty. Also published for: solo piano.

Liberty bonds song

Liberty bonds song

Brown University

by James M. Lathrope. For voice and piano. Caption title. Author's name appears as James W. Lathrope on cover. Advertisement for "Wandering Melodies": p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of eagle.

Liberty Bond Magee

Liberty Bond Magee

Brown University

by Charles McNaughton and John Barclay. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Van & Schenck; drawing of baby with Liberty Bond / De Takacs.

Liberty Bell in California

Page [2-3] blank. At end of title: photograph of Liberty Bell mounted on flower-covered float. Printed in two columns. At head of text: Dedicated to Liberty Bell (Mary Adair Aubury) At end of text: Liberty Bell, America's most sacred relic ... San Francisco, July 17, 1915, enroute to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

Liberty anthem

Liberty anthem

Brown University

words by Charles W. Gordon ; music by Katherine Gordon French ; arrangement for chorus by T. Tertius Noble. For 4-part chorus and piano. Cover title. Dedicated to: the Liberty Loan. Advertisement for liberty bonds: p. [4] Drawing of soldier being helped out of trench: p. [4]

Liberty and equality

Liberty and equality

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. At end of text: Composed and written by Joseph the dreamer. April, 1812.

Liberty

Liberty

Brown University

At head of title: To the Air of Tipperary.

Liberation

Liberation

Brown University

On silvered paper. At end of text: Michael McClure. Frank Reynolds calls himself "Freewheelin Frank" in a book of that title published in 1967 by Grove Press.

Libby Prison hymn

Libby Prison hymn

Brown University

Poetry in 4 four-line stanzas with chorus printed within double line border. Possible range of dates suggested by internal evidence. "Original state of hymn published in Ohio in 1858, before there was a Libby Prison" (Information from Dr. Richard H. Hulan)

Libby Prison hymn

Libby Prison hymn

Brown University

Poetry in 4 four-line stanzas with chorus printed within double line border. Possible range of dates suggested by internal evidence. "Original state of hymn published in Ohio in 1858, before there was a Libby Prison" (Information from Dr. Richard H. Hulan)

Libby Prison hymn

Libby Prison hymn

Brown University

Poetry in 4 four-line stanzas with chorus printed within double line border. Possible range of dates suggested by internal evidence. "Original state of hymn published in Ohio in 1858, before there was a Libby Prison" (Information from Dr. Richard H. Hulan)

Libby Prison hymn

Libby Prison hymn

Brown University

Poetry in 4 four-line stanzas with chorus printed within double line border. Possible range of dates suggested by internal evidence. "Original state of hymn published in Ohio in 1858, before there was a Libby Prison" (Information from Dr. Richard H. Hulan)

Li'l rosebud Joe

Li'l rosebud Joe

Brown University

[words by] E.C.H.; [music by] Eber C. Hamilton For high voice and piano, in the key of B♭ Caption title Advertisement for other songs: p. [6] Cover illustration: drawing of Black mother holding baby Also published for medium voice and piano, in A♭(original key)