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

Washington Hose

Washington Hose

Brown University

Volunteer firemen's song refers to the "Albany lads." Volunteer firemen's song refers to the "Albany lads." Composed by J. N. Foster. Within border of type ornaments. Text of song in nine four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Then seize the rope my gallant lads. Suggested range of dates from internal evidence.

Washington Hose

Washington Hose

Brown University

Volunteer firemen's song refers to the "Albany lads." Volunteer firemen's song refers to the "Albany lads." Composed by J. N. Foster. Within border of type ornaments. Text of song in nine four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Then seize the rope my gallant lads. Suggested range of dates from internal evidence.

Washington Hose

Washington Hose

Brown University

Volunteer firemen's song refers to the "Albany lads." Volunteer firemen's song refers to the "Albany lads." Composed by J. N. Foster. Within border of type ornaments. Text of song in nine four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Then seize the rope my gallant lads. Suggested range of dates from internal evidence.

Washington Hose

Washington Hose

Brown University

Volunteer firemen's song refers to the "Albany lads." Volunteer firemen's song refers to the "Albany lads." Composed by J. N. Foster. Within border of type ornaments. Text of song in nine four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Then seize the rope my gallant lads. Suggested range of dates from internal evidence.

Washington

Washington

Brown University

Sonnet. At end of text: Dedicated to Captain Amos Skeele, my great-grand-sire, a soldier of the American Revolution by William Kimberley Palmer. Chicopee, Massachusetts U.S.A. November 1929 A.D.

Was fehlt mir noch?

Was fehlt mir noch?

Brown University

At head of title: 26. At head of text: Matth. 19, 20. At end of text: J.H. St.

Wartime photograph

Wartime photograph

Brown University

by Hans Ebner, Jr. Broadsheet printed in green and black on white paper folded to create [6] pages. Pages [1] and [5] within border of type ornament stars; below title vignette of eagle's head. Removed from Konglomerati vol. 4, no. 3.

Warren Gamaliel Harding

Warren Gamaliel Harding

Brown University

Poem. At end of text: Alfred Antoine Furman. From The Passaic daily news, August 7, 1923. Broadsheet. On verso: Mr. Furman's works : [list of 4 items] / agent: Philip Howard Furman, Rare and Standard Books, 363 West 51st Street, New York. First line: Friends, look your last on him! No more that voice.

Warm water

Warm water

Brown University

One of 40 hand-set copies. Printed on yellow paper. Centameters No. 1. August 11, 1962.

Warm water

Warm water

Brown University

One of 40 hand-set copies. Printed on yellow paper. Centameters No. 1. August 11, 1962.

Warm water

Warm water

Brown University

One of 40 hand-set copies. Printed on yellow paper. Centameters No. 1. August 11, 1962.

War!--War!: "Song for the times."

To be sung to the tune: Saw my right leg off. Text of song in five five-line stanzas. At end of text: Brandon Sem., Vt. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

War souvenirs

War souvenirs

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Printed in blue; text on title page within ornamental border. At head of text: Respectfully dedicated to the men who served in the shipyards of the Emergeny fleet.

War song: written for the 49th Reg't Mass. Volunteers

Within curvilinear border. To be sung to the tune: Columbia, the gem of the ocean. Text of song in six numbered eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: And her own Forty-Ninth, brave and bold. Colophon at end outside lower border: John F. Baldwin's Steam Printing Establishment, 114 Fulton Street, N.Y. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

War song

War song

Brown University

Tune: Marching through Georgia.

War song

War song

Brown University

Tune: Marching through Georgia.

War poems. Number three. Stanzas

Respectfully dedicated to Dr. R.C. Wood, Surgeon, U.S.A. by Serg't E. Milton, 2d U.S. Dragoons. Within border of type ornaments. At end of text below printed signature: Rio Grand - written one morning ... The above poems have been dedicated ... for the kind and skillful treatment received ... when lying in the hospital at Point Isabel. The author having been severely wounded ... on the 9th of May, at Resaca de la Palma.

War poems: No. 5. Landing of the regulars in Florida

by Sergeant Edward Milton, U.S.A. Within ornamental border. At head of text: Most respectfully dedicated to the Hon. Col. Aspinwall Consul General of the United States of America to Great Britain. Poem in eleven four-line stanzas. At end of poem: Tampa Bay, Florida, 1838; below beneath rule: The above poem is dedicated ... as an humble tribute of gratitude to the Honorable American Consul ....

War hymn

War hymn

Brown University

Printed in blue. At head of title colored illustration of American flag.

War garden: duet

War garden: duet

Brown University

lyric by Harry B. Smith ; music by A. Baldwin Sloane. For voice and piano. Caption title. From musical play: Look who's here. War slogan: p. 2. Advertisement for other songs: p. [6] Cover illustration: photograph of Nora Bayes.