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

If

If

Brown University

Printed in red and black within red ornamental border on heavy paper; rubricated initial. Poem imitating Kipling's If in seven four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of poem: Maurine Hathaway.

If

If

Brown University

Printed in red and black within red ornamental border on heavy paper; rubricated initial. Poem imitating Kipling's If in seven four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of poem: Maurine Hathaway.

Idolatry established: 1 Kings 12:25-33

Printed in colors on recto, black on verso. Illustrations, on recto, include the golden calf and the town of Shechem. Sunday school lesson. Text of hymn on recto; on verso, lesson and quiz. In upper right corner on recto: July 12. 2. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Idealism

Idealism

Brown University

Pages [3] and [4] blank. At end of text: S.F.B.

Ida

Ida

Brown University

Within ornamental border.

I've worked eight hours this day

In each stanza someone lays down hod, razor, etc. after precisely eight hours. In each stanza someone lays down hod, razor, etc. after precisely eight hours. Text of song in five eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: For I've worked eight hours this day. At head of text, between type ornament sections: Written and composed by Felix McGlennon. At end of text below rule: [A.] W. Auner, Song Publisher, Philad'a, Pa. Entered under title rather than author. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence. Not in Wolf, Amer. song sheets.

I've got the army blues

I've got the army blues

Brown University

by L. Wolfe Gilbert and Carey Morgan. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Bugle call rag": p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of two soldiers facing each other / Starmer.

I've got the army blues

I've got the army blues

Brown University

by L. Wolfe Gilbert and Carey Morgan. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Bugle call rag": p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of two soldiers facing each other / Starmer.

I've asked a great many people

Poetry. Printed in calligraphy on yellow paper. In borders drawings of pirates hand-colored in red and green. Title from first line. At end of poem: With a Merry Christmas from Bob and Dot Nesmith.