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

Keemo Kimo:: Geo Christy and Wood's celebrated banjo song

arranged by [A.] Sedgwick For voice and banjo Cover title "As sung by P.H. Keenan"--Caption "Hays N.Y." The number 2-1/2 appears in a star in lower right corner of cover Cover illustration: woodland foliage design Library's copy has notebook holes punched through pages

Keemo Kimo:: Geo Christy and Wood's celebrated banjo song

arranged by [A.] Sedgwick For voice and banjo Cover title Page 3 is unnumbered "As sung by P.H. Keenan"--Caption "Hays N.Y." "25 C Nett" appears in lower right corner of cover Cover illustration: woodland foliage design Page 3 of copy 2 is numbered "Copyright, 25 C Nett" appears in lower right corner of cover on copy 2 Library's copy 2 has numbers 13-18 written in ink in upper corners of pages

Kathleen Mavourneen

Kathleen Mavourneen

Brown University

Within border of type ornament sections. At head of title: 30. At head of title of second song: 31. Text of two love songs. At end of text below lower border: E. Nason & Co. Song Publishers, 120 Fulton Street, New Yor[k] Entered under title rather than author of first song. Not in Wolf, Amer. song sheets. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Katherine of the plains

Katherine of the plains

Brown University

Poem in two four-line stanzas and one six-line stanza. Type-signed at end of poem: William Kimberley Palmer. Chicopee, Massachusetts U.S.A. June 1929 A.D.

Katharine Ogie: together with Billy and Nancy, and Sweet Poll of Plymouth

Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by single broken line. At left of title wood-engraving of woman wearing dress and three-cornered hat, holding powder horn and musket; variant of Reilly 1554, identified as representing the female soldier Hannah Snell. Printed area: 31 x 18 cm. Typeface, wood-engraving and design suggest E. Russell as printer. "Sweet Poll of Plymouth" is ascribed to John O'Keeffe by Thomas L. Philbrick in "Studies in bibliography: papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virgina", v. 9, 1957, p. 255-258. Not in Shipton & Mooney or Shaw & Shoemaker. Ezekiel Russell is known to have moved to Boston in 1781 where he died in 1796; his wife continued his business.

Kate and her horns!

Kate and her horns!

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Poetry in 20 four-line stanzas printed in two columns divided line of type ornaments. Two cuts (on left woman and landscape, on right male and female caricature of dogs) flanking centered title. Same as broadside with Coverly's imprint.

Kate and her horns!

Kate and her horns!

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Poetry in 20 four-line stanzas printed in two columns divided line of type ornaments. Two cuts (on left woman and landscape, on right male and female caricature of dogs) flanking centered title. Same as broadside with Coverly's imprint.

Kate and her horns!

Kate and her horns!

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Poetry in 20 four-line stanzas printed in two columns divided line of type ornaments. Two cuts (on left woman and landscape, on right male and female caricature of dogs) flanking centered title. Same as broadside with Coverly's imprint.

Kate and her horns!

Kate and her horns!

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Poetry in 20 four-line stanzas printed in two columns divided line of type ornaments. Two cuts (on left woman and landscape, on right male and female caricature of dogs) flanking centered title. Same as broadside with Coverly's imprint.

Kate and her horns!

Kate and her horns!

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Poetry in 20 four-line stanzas printed in two columns divided line of type ornaments. Two cuts (on left woman and landscape, on right male and female caricature of dogs) flanking centered title. Same as broadside with Coverly's imprint.

Kate and her horns!

Kate and her horns!

Brown University

Poetry printed in two columns divided by line of advertising between rules of type ornaments: Printed and sold wholesale and retail at No. 25, High Street, Providence, R. Island. Above address was listed in the Providence Directory for Henry Trumbull from 1826 through 1836. This edition not in Ford or Shaw and Shoemaker.

Kate and her horns

Kate and her horns

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments Poem in 20 four-line stanzas Hay Broadsds Harris copy: Fold damage; lower corners missing; upper edge trimmed in jagged outline.

Kate and her horns

Kate and her horns

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. Poem in 20 four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Kate and her horns

Kate and her horns

Brown University

Poetry printed in two columns divided by line of garland type ornaments. Wood-engraving of horrified man facing goat centered in title. At end of text in lower margin: Printed and sold by Nathaniel Coverly, Jun. Corner of Theatre-Alley, Milk-Street--Boston. Coverly was listed at above address from 1810 to 1824. This edition not in Ford or Shaw/Shoemaker.

Karma repair kit: items 1-4

by Richard Brautigan. Mimeographed copy. Text superimposed in faint smudged outlines. At end of text: The Communication Company U.P.S. First line: Get enough food to eat.

Kansas

Kansas

Brown University

Within ornamental border.

Kaiser Bill: (you've got a lot to answer for)

words by Wm. Hallen ; music by Al. Beatty. For voice and piano. Caption title. Introduced by William Hallen and Ethel Hunter. Advertisments for other music: p. 3-[4] War slogans: p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of William Hallen and Ethel Hunter; border design / Barbelle.