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

How, when, where, why

How, when, where, why

Brown University

Broadsheet. Christian poem. At end of text: F.G. Brown. At end of p. [1]: Church of the Transfiguration. Within single line border. In lower left corner: (23) First line: You ask me how I gave my heart to Christ?

How, when, where, why

How, when, where, why

Brown University

Broadsheet. Christian poem. At end of text: F.G. Brown. At end of p. [1]: Church of the Transfiguration. Within single line border. In lower left corner: (23) First line: You ask me how I gave my heart to Christ?

How, when, where, why

How, when, where, why

Brown University

Broadsheet. Christian poem. At end of text: F.G. Brown. At end of p. [1]: Church of the Transfiguration. Within single line border. In lower left corner: (23) First line: You ask me how I gave my heart to Christ?

How to help

How to help

Brown University

Double printing. At end of text: A.H.D.

How to free a state from draft: Coast Defence, No. 2

Song tells how men enlisting for coast defense were promised they would avoid fighting but were shipped to Washington as the 4th Regiment; attacks Massachusetts Governor Andrew and other politicians. Song tells how men enlisting for coast defense were promised they would avoid fighting but were shipped to Washington as the 4th Regiment; attacks Massachusetts Governor Andrew and other politicians. Within border of type ornament sections with ornamental upper corners. To be sung to the tune: Wait for the wagon. Text of song in five eight-line stanzas with two-line chorus beginning: John said to Waldo and Waldo said to Stodd, with four-line More-ale at end beginning: Now all young men who enlist for Worcester County. Suggested place and date of publication from internal evidence.

How to close the war

How to close the war

Brown University

By Mrs G.P. Hardwick, Washington, D.C. Printed in black, red and blue in two columns on page [1]; pages [2]-[4] blue-lined writing paper. At upper left at head of title wood-engraving in red, blue and superimposed red and blue of sentinel and American flag on flagstaff beside tents. Caption title. To be sung to the tune: Jordan is a hard road to travel. Text of song in seven six-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Then ho, ho, ho, ha, ha, ha.

How to be good: dialogue for three children

Broadsheet. Caption title. Verse dialogue by Walter, Eugene and Jennie. At end of text on verso: Fourth Series, No. 7. Four cents. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

How the veterans broke up Jeff Davis' ball!

By Mrs. G.P. Hardwick. Printed in red and blue on page [1]; pages [2]-[4] blue-lined writing paper. At left of text on page [1] wood-engravings in red of drummer boy and Columbia and wood-engraving in blue of soldier carrying American flag. Caption title. To be sung to the tune: Lanagan's ball. Text of song in six eight-line stanzas.

How small they are

How small they are

Brown University

Printed in blue. With triple line border. At end of text: The Toronto World, June 12, 1917.

How sleep the brave

How sleep the brave

Brown University

"To the memory of the illustrious patriot Abraham Lincoln"--At head of title Words by William Collins; music by Carlo Bardetti For voice and piano

How Sheridan came

How Sheridan came

Brown University

Poetry. Printed on pink card stock. On page [1] cut of General Sheridan on horseback with facsimile signatures: J.H.E. Whitney sc. and G.Y. Coffin del. Below, beneath single lne: Presented by & Phillips, Washington, D.C. On page [4] advertising for & Phillips, solicitors of claims for military pensions. Date from internal evidence.

How Sheridan came

How Sheridan came

Brown University

Poetry. Printed on pink card stock. On page [1] cut of General Sheridan on horseback with facsimile signatures: J.H.E. Whitney sc. and G.Y. Coffin del. Below, beneath single lne: Presented by & Phillips, Washington, D.C. On page [4] advertising for & Phillips, solicitors of claims for military pensions. Date from internal evidence.

How say

How say

Brown University

Tom Beckett. Broadsheet printed on pale gray paper folded to create 8 pages. Cover title. Back page contains colophon, biographical and series information and variation of Aldine printer's mark. One of edition of 750 copies.

How sad and lonely was the time

Title from first line. Pages [2,4] blank. At end of text: Composed by Mrs. Nancy Mattice on the death of her son, Henry.

How rough is the journey of life

Title from first line. Tune: Old Union. Within ornamental border. At head of text: The following lines were sentimentally written by John Cate, on the sudden and unexpected death of his beloved wife, --who departed this life, March 25, 1839.

How rough is the journey of life

Title from first line. Tune: Old Union. Within ornamental border. At head of text: The following lines were sentimentally written by John Cate, on the sudden and unexpected death of his beloved wife, --who departed this life, March 25, 1839.

How Meade whipped Lee at Gettysburg

Published and sold by Mrs. G.P. Hardwick, Buffalo, N.Y. Within double line border with ornamental corners. To be sung to the tune: While everything is lovely, and the goose hangs high. At end of text: Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1863, by Mrs. G.P. Hardwick. Poem in ten four-line stanzas.

How Margaret earned a beautiful solid oak, Chautauqua desk

Story describes system of earning furniture premiums for selling Larkin soap. Story describes system of earning furniture premiums for selling Larkin soap. Soap advertisement printed in colors on heavy paper with irregular edges in shape of desk pictured on page [1] On page [1] colored illustration of open secretary desk captioned: The Chautauqua desk; on page [4] colored illustration of three girls washing three turbaned black men. Caption title. Prose and poetry. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence; Larkin Soap Company was called Larkin Soap Manufacturing Company during 1890s.

How high the moon and how low the tide

Poetry. Page [2] blank; title from first line on page [3] Lithograph by Honore Daumier of Nadar taking pictures from balloon in upper left on page [1] Colophon on page [4]: "Nadar elevates photography to the hights of art" Lithograph ... The Metropolitan Museum of Art.