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

Hymn

Hymn

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments. Text of hymn in five four-line stanzas and four-line chorus beginning: Arise! arise, leave all for glory. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Hymn

Hymn

Brown University

At head of text: Is. lx, 13. 2 Ch. xxiv, 13. 1 Cor. iii, 16. Eze. viii, 12. Ps. xcvi, 9. Text of hymn in five four-line stanzas. Imprint information from ms. notation on Brown University copy.

Hymn

Hymn

Brown University

Within ornamental border.

Hymn

Hymn

Brown University

by Rev. William B. Tappan. To be sung after the farewell sermon of Rev. Austin Phelps to his flock of Pine Street Church, Boston, May 14, 1848 .. Tune: Hamburg. Printed on blue paper; within ornamental border. First line: That thou wast loved, and still hast part.

Hymn

Hymn

Brown University

To be sung to the tune: Auld lang syne. Within border of type ornaments. Text of hymn in six nembered four-line stanzas blessing a pastor's home. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Hymn

Hymn

Brown University

Text of hymn in four seven-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of hymn: Margaret Bradford Morton. At end of text: Sung in First Parish Church, December 22, 1893, Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Hymn

Hymn

Brown University

By Timothy Perry. To be sung to the tune: Auld lang syne. Text of song in four four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Ho, Appleton Academy! At end of text: Sung at the Appleton Academy Reunion, Sept. 18, 1861.

Hymn

Hymn

Brown University

By Mrs. L. H. Sigourney. Within double-line border. To be sung to the tune: Old Hundred. Text of hymn in five four-line stanzas.

Huzza, for the railroad!: Dedicated to the "Pacific Railroad Club."

Pages [2]-[3] blank. Facsimile of broadside on page [1] Printed on cream paper within border of type ornament sections on page [1] Between title and subtitle cut of 19th-century railroad train. Caption title. To be sung to the tune: Wait for the wagon. Text of song in four four-line stanzas with two-line chorus beginning: Huzza! for the railroad! Huzza! for the railroad! Colophon on page [4]: "First printed in 1856 to promote the Pacific railroad and the candidacy of John C. Frémont ... On its hundredth anniversary, 300 copies have been reprinted at Christmas 1969 for friends of the Yale Collection of Western Americana."

Hustle children:: plantation song

words by George Cooper; music by Jennie E. Lissenden For voice and piano Caption title Advertisement for another song: p. [8] Cover illustration: lithograph of Afro-American woman and children outside a cabin

Hush! Pickaninnies!

Hush! Pickaninnies!

Brown University

words by Wm. H. Gardner; music by Roger Shaye For voice and piano Caption title Sung by: Manola and Jack Mason Dedicated to: Mr. and Mrs. John Mason Advertisement for another song: p. [6] Cover illustration: drawing of a rose / ES Fisher; photograph of Manola and Jack Mason

Hush! My little coon

Hush! My little coon

Brown University

music and words by J.W. Wheeler For voice and piano Cover title At head of title: Maud Huth's latest success Advertisement for "I aint 'bliged to stan' no nigger foolin'" and other songs: p. [6] Cover illustration: photograph of Maude Huth; floral border design / J.P. Daly Library's copy 1 inscribed: G.W. Evans. 8/12/02

Hush!

Hush!

Brown University

Facsimile of author's signature at foot of text.

Hush yo' business, oh, go on!:: a coon warning

words by Sager Midgley; music by Maurice Levi For voice and piano Cover title Introduced by Merri Osborne in the musical production "Jack and the beanstalk" Advertisement for other songs: p. [6] Cover illustration: photograph of Merri Osborne; floral border design / GE Library's copy inscribed: A.M. Houghton, Mar. 1897

Hush my little coon

Hush my little coon

Brown University

by Jas. W. Wheeler For voice and piano Cover title Advertisement for other songs: p. [4]

Hush a by baby

Hush a by baby

Brown University

sung by Christy's Minstrels at Christy's Opera House, Broadway New York For voice, chorus (SATB) and piano Cover title Cover illustration: floral design "Wakelam N.Y." Verses 2-5 printed on p. 5

Hurrah! We're free forever

Song refers to Yale and to the "noble class" of Fifty-Nine whose college life is now over. Song refers to Yale and to the "noble class" of Fifty-Nine whose college life is now over. Title from first line. To be sung to the tune: Strike home. Text of song in five stanzas.

Hurrah! We're free forever

Song refers to Yale and to the "noble class" of Fifty-Nine whose college life is now over. Song refers to Yale and to the "noble class" of Fifty-Nine whose college life is now over. Title from first line. To be sung to the tune: Strike home. Text of song in five stanzas.

Hurrah! We're free forever

Song refers to Yale and to the "noble class" of Fifty-Nine whose college life is now over. Song refers to Yale and to the "noble class" of Fifty-Nine whose college life is now over. Title from first line. To be sung to the tune: Strike home. Text of song in five stanzas.

Hurrah! Hurrah! America: Hurrah for Uncle Sam

by Julius Carl. Pages [2] and [4] blank. Printed in blue within border of type ornaments. Below title on page [1] vignette of eagle holding flag. Cover title. First lines same as title. Poem in four six-line stanzas with four-line refrain.

Hurrah! Hurrah! America

Hurrah! Hurrah! America

Brown University

Title same as first line. Pages [2,4] blank. Within border of type ornaments printed in black.

Hurrah! Hurrah! America

Hurrah! Hurrah! America

Brown University

Title same as first line. Pages [2,4] blank. Within border of type ornaments printed in black.

Hurrah! Hurrah! America

Hurrah! Hurrah! America

Brown University

Title same as first line. Pages [2,4] blank. Within border of type ornaments printed in black.

Hurrah for the Yankees

Hurrah for the Yankees

Brown University

words by Elma Elsworth Braun ; music by Cora Wyse-Fournier. For voice and piano. Caption title. Cover illustration: border design with American eagles.