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

Here's to the heart of friendship

Printed in gold and colors on heavy white embossed paper in postcard format; rubricated initials; text on verso in brown. At head of title framed illustration of landscape with house; below, a butterfly. Title from first lines. Type-signed at end: Mc Kown. Suggested publication date from postmark on Brown University copy.

Here's a happy New-Year to our father-land

Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments within border of type ornaments at sides and bottom. Original size not known. Title from first line. At end of text: January 1, 1830. A carrier's address which does not identify the name of the newspaper but does indicate that it is from "the city of Penn" (i.e. Philadelphia)

Here we meet once more again

by Gen. W. H. Hayward, of Baltimore. To be sung to the tune: Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled. Within border of type ornaments. Title from first line of poem. In lower margin: Rose & Co. Prs. 5 So. Calvert St. Poem in 12 stanzas for meeting at Gettysburg beside Union graves. Date suggested because internal evidence shows poem written after end of Civil War and because author died in 1876.

Here we come, America!

Here we come, America!

Brown University

words and music by Charles F. Manney. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [6] Parts available for band and orchestra.

Here we are Lafayette

Here we are Lafayette

Brown University

words and music by [sic] C. Arthur Pfeiffer. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: U.S. soldiers marching through Paris. Also published for band and orchestra.

Here is the test of wisdom

Printed in reddish-brown and black on heavy paper. Title from first line. With rubricated initial. Type-signed at end of poem: Walt Whitman. At end of text: A Christmas greeting from Alice and Rollo Silver 1952.

Here I am Uncle Sammy, take me: everybody's song

words by Dean T. Wilton ; music by James McHugh. March for voice and piano. Cover title. "Most Respectfully Dedicated To Our Gallant Boys of the Army and Navy and to The Allies with whom we are United making us One For All and All for One!" Cover illustration: drawing of Uncle Sam holding American flag and American eagle / E.S. Fisher.

Here comes the flag

Here comes the flag

Brown University

words by Arthur Macy ; music by G.W. Chadwick. March for mixed voices (SATB) and piano. Caption title. "Dedicated to all American children who love their flag." Advertisement for an opera: p. [14]

Her visit during sleep

Her visit during sleep

Brown University

Ibn Hazm. Poem. At head of title: Ibn Hazm. At end of text: Translated by Robert Bly. From 'The sea and the honeycomb' edited by Robert Bly, Beacon Press. Institute for the Study of Nonviolence Arab-Israeli study kit. Printed on blue paper. First line: The spirit came to the bed of the earnest lover.

Her jewels

Her jewels

Brown University

At end of text: F. Lincoln Dane, Nyack-on-Hudson, U.S.A., August, 1931 Ms. note at end of text: Mrs. Emily A. Nuttall "City House" City Rd. Chester.

Her choice this year

Her choice this year

Brown University

Illustrated by John T. McCutcheon. At end of text: Published by The French Relief Fund. The Indianapolis Branch of The American Fund for French Wounded.

Her answer

Her answer

Brown University

Poem in four eight-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Henry W. Miller

Henry W. Miller

Brown University

Cover title. At head and foot of title: June 2, 1891.; Sept. 9, 1800--May 31, 1891.

Henry F. ... (a.k.a. Monte Cristo)

Headshot of Henry F. (a.k.a. Monter Cristo, African American vaudeville performer (male): In formal attire (three-piece suit, bow tie); [place of photo unknown]; undated Headshot of Henry F. (a.k.a. Monter Cristo, African American vaudeville performer (male): In formal attire (three-piece suit, bow tie); [place of photo unknown]; undated Digital object made available by : Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)