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

Jenny Lane: Sung by Wm. A. Wray, the celebrated banjoist with great applause

Poetry. Within decorative border. Text of song without music, with chorus beginning "Strike the cords, sound the horn," in twenty lines. At end of text below curvilinear line, within border: Andrews', No. 38 Chatham St., N.Y. Printer of songs, games, toy books, motto verses, &c. J. Andrews printed at this address between 1853 and 1859. This edition not in Edwin Wolf's Amer. song sheets. The song is attributed to R. Bishop Buckley; entered under title rather than author.

Jennifer

Jennifer

Brown University

Poetry. Reproduced from rainbow colored typescript, with type generated mazes on left and right of poem. At head of title: th uinta gargoyl #8 juli 75. At bottom on left: publisht bi rainbow resin, 815 18th st., #4, sacramento, ca95814; on right: printd bi moongraphics, 1219 20th st., sacramento.

Jem and Velvet

Jem and Velvet

Brown University

By Mrs. J.P. Ballard. At head of title cut of boy with cat. Caption title. In upper right corner on page [1]: No. 2.

Jehu's false zeal: 2 Kings 10:15-31

Printed in colors on recto, black on verso. Illustrations, on recto, include Baal's head and the golden calf. Sunday school lesson. Text of hymn on recto; on verso, lesson and quiz. In upper corners on recto: October 18. Lesson 3. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Jehu's false zeal: 2 Kings 10:15-31

Printed in colors on recto, black on verso. Illustrations, on recto, include Baal's head and the golden calf. Sunday school lesson. Text of hymn on recto; on verso, lesson and quiz. In upper corners on recto: October 18. Lesson 3. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Jehu's false zeal: 2 Kings 10:15-31

Printed in colors on recto, black on verso. Illustrations, on recto, include Baal's head and the golden calf. Sunday school lesson. Text of hymn on recto; on verso, lesson and quiz. In upper corners on recto: October 18. Lesson 3. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Jeffie D., or, The petticoated president

Within border of type ornament sections. In upper margin: 961. To be sung to the tune: Yankee Doodle. Text of song in eight four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: O Jeffie D.! of F.F.V. Slightly larger than Wolf, Amer. song sheets, 1102. Publication date suggested because song deals with attempted escape of Jefferson Davis, allegedly in female attire, in 1865.

Jeff's last proclamation

For voice and piano Eng'd. by H.F. Greene, Boston Words & music by Union Engraved picture of Jeff Davis hanging from a tree with sign in front: "Jeff's last proclamation" Words to verses 3-5 printed as text: p. 4

Je suis perdu: sur l'air du Haut-en-bas

Printed on light gray paper in two columns divided by curvilinear line. First line same as title. To be sung to the tune: Haut-en-bas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

January, 7 A.M

January, 7 A.M

Brown University

Linda Pastan. Pages [2]-[3] blank. Printed on heavy paper that is gray on one side, white on the other. Poem in 17 lines. "From A perfect circle of sun, to be published by The Swallow Press, 1971."

January 1, 1901

January 1, 1901

Brown University

Poem in four eight-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: James Cowan. Holyoke, Mass.

Jane O'Malley

Jane O'Malley

Brown University

Girl falls from cliff. Girl falls from cliff. Within border of type ornament sections. At left of title within border cut of head and shoulders of young woman. Text of song in four four-line stanzas with two-line chorus beginning: She now sleeps. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence. This edition not in Wolf.

Jane O'Malley

Jane O'Malley

Brown University

Girl falls from cliff. Girl falls from cliff. Within border of type ornament sections. At left of title within border cut of head and shoulders of young woman. Text of song in four four-line stanzas with two-line chorus beginning: She now sleeps. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence. This edition not in Wolf.

Jane O'Malley

Jane O'Malley

Brown University

Girl falls from cliff. Girl falls from cliff. Within border of type ornament sections. At left of title within border cut of head and shoulders of young woman. Text of song in four four-line stanzas with two-line chorus beginning: She now sleeps. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence. This edition not in Wolf.