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

In memorium Lincoln

In memorium Lincoln

Brown University

The words written ... by Wm. P. Fox. Music by Francis Woolcott. Cover title. For solo voice and chorus (SATB) with piano acc.

In memoriam. Rev. F.A. Whitney, H.C. 1833

By C.D. Bradlee, pastor of the church at Harrison Square, Boston, Mass., H.C. 1852. In verse. Caption title: Rev. F.A. Whitney, ob. Dec. 21st, 1880. Page [4] blank. First line: He's passed away from earth to heaven.

In memoriam. Jan. 1857. April 1870

Poem in eight eight-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: Lizzie Louise. Providence, March, 1870. Author's full name not on item. Suggested author from ms. notation on Brown University copies.