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

Just a man

Just a man

Brown University

1 broadsheet. At head of text: ... Dedicated to her son, James J. Carr, 148th Ambulance Co., U.S. Army.

Just a little Christmas wish

Christmas card. pp. [2, 4] blank. Within ornamental border printed in green and red with rubricated initial.

Just a little Christmas wish

Christmas card. pp. [2, 4] blank. Within ornamental border printed in green and red with rubricated initial.

Just a little Christmas wish

Christmas card. pp. [2, 4] blank. Within ornamental border printed in green and red with rubricated initial.

Just a little after taps

words by Richard Fechheimer ; music by W.B. Kernell. For voice and piano. Caption title. From musical: Goodbye Bill, a play with music. Advertiment for "Knitting": p. [6] Cover illustration: caricature of Kaiser Wilhelm II.

Just a babys letter found in no man's land

words by Bernie Grossmann ; music by Ray Lawrence. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Before the world began": p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of soldier reading letter / Starmer.

Just a baby's prayer at twilight: (for her daddy over there)

words by Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young ; music by M.K. Jerome. For voice and piano. Cover title. Variant advertisements. Cover illustration: drawing of a child saying her bedtime prayers / Barbelle. First line of chorus: Just a baby's pray'r at twilight.

Julius' bride

Julius' bride

Brown University

Cover title. "1848-1852, Vanderbeek, William, 479 Broadway [New York]"--Early Amer. sheet music / Dichter & Shapiro, p. 240. Cover illustration: lithograph of table with instruments, a scallop shell, and minstrels. "Lith. of Geo. E. Leefe N.Y."

Judgment to come

Judgment to come

Brown University

At head of text: [From The Weekly Springfield Republican, November 17, 1899]

Jubilee increase campaign hymn

To be sung to the tune: Cyprus. Text of hymn in four four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: Amelia DeF. Lockwood. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Joy is the mother of all virtue

Poetry. Printed on cream paper. At head of text: Goethe. At end of poem: George Stanley. Place of publication and date suggested because piece was offered in 1985 dealer's list of Canadian broadsides, mostly published in 1970's and 1980's. First line: Woke up this morn, felt like a horse.