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.
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Items in this collection

Inspirational verse

Inspirational verse

Brown University

Printed in red and green within green and yellowborder of type ornaments. In upper left corner colored illustration of American flag. At head of text: Mobs, Segregation, Disfranchisement. Type-signed at end: Roscoe C. Jamison. At lower left: Copyright, 1915, by Wm. F. Neil, St. Joseph, Missouri.

Inspirational verse

Inspirational verse

Brown University

Printed in red and green within green and yellowborder of type ornaments. In upper left corner colored illustration of American flag. At head of text: Mobs, Segregation, Disfranchisement. Type-signed at end: Roscoe C. Jamison. At lower left: Copyright, 1915, by Wm. F. Neil, St. Joseph, Missouri.

Inspirational verse

Inspirational verse

Brown University

Printed in red and green within green and yellowborder of type ornaments. In upper left corner colored illustration of American flag. At head of text: Mobs, Segregation, Disfranchisement. Type-signed at end: Roscoe C. Jamison. At lower left: Copyright, 1915, by Wm. F. Neil, St. Joseph, Missouri.

Inspirational songs and poems

Frenchfold, printed on double leaves. Printed in blue. At head of text: Suggested by the window recently placed ..

Inspection

Inspection

Brown University

Poetry and prose. Page [4] blank.

Inside Kansas

Inside Kansas

Brown University

Poem. Received as gift from author in 1976.

Inkstand extra: The wife at home to her husband in the Legislature

Bracketed at head of text: A parody on "Father, come home" to be sung every day at the close of the session, till the Legislature adjourns. Poem in five eight-line stanzas with two-line refrain beginning: Come home! come home! come home! At end of text: Betsey Jane. Berkshire, May 11, 1867. Betsey Jane probably a pseudonym.

Initiation songs

Initiation songs

Brown University

Text of songs for Psi Upsilon fraternity. Text of songs for Psi Upsilon fraternity. Printed on heavy paper within single-line border with drosses at corners. Place of publication from dealer who said the item was used by Yale students. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Initiation songs

Initiation songs

Brown University

Text of songs for Psi Upsilon fraternity. Text of songs for Psi Upsilon fraternity. Printed on heavy paper within single-line border with drosses at corners. Place of publication from dealer who said the item was used by Yale students. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Informal portrait of George Bass taken during Brer Rabbit, Rites and Reason Theatre

George H. Bass consulting the script. George H. Bass consulting the script. Informal portrait of George Bass taken during Brer Rabbit, Rites and Reason Theatre, University Archives Subject Photographs, 1-Q, Brown University Library Digital object made available by: Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)

Indianola: song

Indianola: song

Brown University

words by Frank H. Warren ; music by S.R. Henry & D. Onivas. Fox trot for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: North-American Indian chief / Starmer Also published for: piano solo, small orchestra, full orchestra, military band, voice with orchestration.

Indianola: song

Indianola: song

Brown University

words by Frank H Warren ; music by S.R. Henry & D. Onivas. Fox trot for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other music: p. [4] Cover illustration: North-American Indian chief / Starmer Photographs of S.R. Henry and D. Onivas (Savino): p. [4] Also published for: piano solo, small orchestra, full orchestra, military band, voice with orchestration.

Indianola: song

Indianola: song

Brown University

English lyric by Frank H. Warren ; French lyric by C. Hélène Barker ; music by S.R. Henry & D. Onivas. Fox trot for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "I'm glad I can make you cry": p. [4] Cover illustration: North-American Indian chief / Starmer Also published for: piano solo, small orchestra, full orchestra, military band, voice with orchestration.

Indian philosopher: and Auld lang syne.--(second part.)

Two poems printed in two columns divided by line of advertising with type ornaments at each end: Sold Wholesale and Retail, Corner of Merchant's-Row and Market-Square (up stairs) Boston. Leonard Deming is listed at this address in Boston directories for 1829-1831. Printed area measures 20.6 x 12.9 cm. Not in Shoemaker, Ford, or Wegelin. Not in Checklist Amer. imprints.

Indian names

Indian names

Brown University

by D.F. Banks, Cherokee. Poetry and prose. Within border of type ornaments. At end of text: My dear readers: You will observe ... Composed and written by Daniel F. Banks, Cherokee or Chippewa, at Rock Castle on Shawny Creek, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Dec. 5th, 1845.

Independent Order of Good Templars

Broadsheet printed on heavy paper in two columns divided by single line within double-linw border with ornaments at corners. Text of 19 temperance songs grouped as opening odes, initiatory odes, closing odes and installation odes. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and because the order had this name from 1852 to 1903.

Independence!

Independence!

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line within border of type ornament sections. Below title wood-engraving of eagle with wings spread holding olive branch, arrows, and scroll inscribed: E pluribus unum. To be sung to the tune: Yankee Doodle. Text of song in nine numbered four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: No monarch sits upon his throne. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.