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

Independence of the United States

Poetry. Printed in two columns. At end of text between double rules: Price, Three Cents. Poem in 16 numbered stanzas praises Senate vote in 1811 not to renew charter of the Bank of the United States. First line: Sweet Liberty may well inspire.

Incident for a winter's evening: a poem

by John Robert Colombo. Broadsheet folded to create [6] pages; one page blank; text of poem extends across two pages. Printed in red and black. Illustration of red flames at left of poem; printer's mark of hawk's head on last page. Cover title. At end of poem: Set in Bembo & printed at the Hawkshead Press 78A Dale Avenue Toronto 5 Canada MCMLC.

Inauguration grand march

"Dedicated to the President of the United States, Hon. Abrm. Lincoln"--Cover Portrait of Lincoln on cover; J.H. Bufford's Lith. Boston For piano

In time of peace prepare for war

lyrics by Robert B. Smith ; music by Harold Orlob. March for voice and piano. Caption title. From musical: Ned Wayburn's Town Topics. Advertisement for other songs from "Town topics": p. [6] Cover illustration: a chorus line / H.R.S.

In time of peace prepare for war

words by Jeff Branen ; music by Arthur Lange. For voice and piano. Caption title. As featured by Neil O'brien's Minstrels in the revue, Neil O'Brien's Minstrels 1916-1917. Advertisement for another song: p. [6] Cover illustration: drawing of a ship.

In this world-hour: lines to Edwin Markham - now

At head of text: Read by MacKaye at the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the writing of "The man with the hoe" .. At end of text: These great lines written by Percy MacKaye, noted poet, in honor of the 50th anniversary.

In this world-hour: lines to Edwin Markham - now

At head of text: Read by MacKaye at the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the writing of "The man with the hoe" .. At end of text: These great lines written by Percy MacKaye, noted poet, in honor of the 50th anniversary.

In this world-hour: lines to Edwin Markham - now

At head of text: Read by MacKaye at the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the writing of "The man with the hoe" .. At end of text: These great lines written by Percy MacKaye, noted poet, in honor of the 50th anniversary.

In this world-hour: lines to Edwin Markham - now

At head of text: Read by MacKaye at the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the writing of "The man with the hoe" .. At end of text: These great lines written by Percy MacKaye, noted poet, in honor of the 50th anniversary.

In the woods again

In the woods again

Brown University

Poetry in fourteen lines; also published entitled "June" At end of text: Thomas William Parsons.

In the time of change

In the time of change

Brown University

Pages [2, 4] blank. Printed in blue. At end of text: for a Happy New Year.

In the streets

In the streets

Brown University

Words of song, without music, in four stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Germanae Band, be faithful, true. At end of text: November, 1857. Some phrases, such as "We'll conquer Science, Art, and seek their mysteries to unfold," seem to refer to schoolwork; "Germanae" is a Latin word meaning "Sisters" and apparently refers here to female students.

In the silence

In the silence

Brown University

Broadsheet printed in green on cream pasper. Border of leaves and flowers in green on recto on left and right and across top. Poem in six eight-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: May Riley Smith. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

In the silence

In the silence

Brown University

Broadsheet printed in green on cream pasper. Border of leaves and flowers in green on recto on left and right and across top. Poem in six eight-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: May Riley Smith. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.