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

Hark the call of liberty

words by George Thornton Edwards ; music by H.C. Work. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Cover illustration: drawing of American flag.

Hari Shakta and other sounds from the mind: poetry

Three folded broadsheets issued laid into lettered illustrated orange paper wrapper (14 x 22 cm.) Title from wrapper. Suggested publication date from dealer. "Michaele Lundberg is a student at Willard Junior High School in Berkeley, California."--Inside wrapper.

Hari Shakta and other sounds from the mind: poetry

Three folded broadsheets issued laid into lettered illustrated orange paper wrapper (14 x 22 cm.) Title from wrapper. Suggested publication date from dealer. "Michaele Lundberg is a student at Willard Junior High School in Berkeley, California."--Inside wrapper.

Hari Shakta and other sounds from the mind: poetry

Three folded broadsheets issued laid into lettered illustrated orange paper wrapper (14 x 22 cm.) Title from wrapper. Suggested publication date from dealer. "Michaele Lundberg is a student at Willard Junior High School in Berkeley, California."--Inside wrapper.

Hard times in Dixie

Hard times in Dixie

Brown University

Song; for voice and piano; refrain set for chorus (SATB) and piano Verses 3-5 printed as text at bottom of p. 5. "'Respectfully' inscribed to Jeff Davis"--Cover Title set within ornamental frame

Hard times

Hard times

Brown University

Poetry. Printed area measures 24.8 x 18.5 cm. Printed in two columns divided by single line within border of type ornaments. Poem in 26 four-line stanzas with refrain. Poem satirizes different occupations and professions; other different versions exist. Date from internal evidence.

Hard times

Hard times

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments; printed in two columns divided by single line. Date suggested because of internal evidence of typeface and border. Poem in 26 4-line stanzas with refrain gives one stanza for each occupation.

Hard times

Hard times

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line. Imprint information suggested by inscription.

Hard times

Hard times

Brown University

Poetry. Printed area measures 24.8 x 18.5 cm. Printed in two columns divided by single line within border of type ornaments. Poem in 26 four-line stanzas with refrain. Poem satirizes different occupations and professions; other different versions exist. Date from internal evidence.

Hard Scrabble, or, Miss Philises bobalition

Poem about an anti-Negro riot at Hard Scrabble or Hardscrabble, a suburb of Providence, R.I., in 1824. Poem about an anti-Negro riot at Hard Scrabble or Hardscrabble, a suburb of Providence, R.I., in 1824. In form, a parody of the nursery rhyme, "O! dear, what can the matter be". The two characters, Pomp[ey] and Phillis, are mentioned on p. 15-16 of Hard-Scrabble calendar (Providence, 1824), which refers to the "shuffling" dances performed in that neighborhood as "the zig zag movements of Pomp and Phillis, when engaged in treading the 'minuet de la court'" (Joseph L. Tillinghast, for the defense in the ensuing trial) Printed in two columns divided by line of advertising with type ornaments at each end: Sold wholesale and retail at No. 152, Ann-Street--Boston. The printer may have been William Rutter. Printed area measures: 18.9 x 16.7 cm. Not in Shoemaker.

Happy New Year to you!

Happy New Year to you!

Brown University

Poetry. Processed copy. Mimeographed on yellow-green paper. Type-signed at end: Lulu E. Finney. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.

happy day

happy day

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments.

Happy colored man

Happy colored man

Brown University

words and music by Harry Talbert For voice and piano Caption title Sung by: Barry Maxwell Advertisement for another song: p. [6] Cover illustration: engraved border design; engraved portrait of Barry Maxwell[?] Library's copy 1 has stamp on cover: C.C. Cunningham & Co., no. 379 Broadway, Chelsea, Mass. Advertisements for merchandise: cop. 2, p. [1 and 6]

Hannah! (I want my Hannah):: a blackville craving

words & music by E.H. Pendleton For voice and piano Cover title Advertisements for other songs: p. [2-6] Cover illustration: caricature of Afro-American woman Also published for: band, orchestra, banjo, mandolin, and guitar

Hannah binding shoes

Hannah binding shoes

Brown University

by Lucy Larcom. Broadsheet. Date of publication taken from BAL. A lithographed trade card, issued as an advertisement. Colored illustration has text: Ask your grocer for "Deep Sea" mess mackerel. Fat, juicy, fine flavored.

Hanging by a thread

Hanging by a thread

Brown University

Printed in blue and black on white paper within blue border. Includes reproduction of photograph of book and of Joan Kahn. Prospectus for anthology of suspense stories edited by Joan Kahn. Date from publication date of book.

Handy rules for whist: Presented with the compliments of the Employers' Liability Assurance Corporation, Limited, of ...

Printed in blue on glossy white card stock within single-line border. At center of title cut of woman holding sword and shield inscribed: In omnia paratus. Advertising material printed outside border at top, bottom, and vertically at sides. Includes advertising material and poem in 14 stanzas of varying length. "B.F. Pabodie, General Agent of Rhode Island, Providence"--p. 4. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Handsome Harry, or, The deceitful young man

Printed in two columns. At head of title wood-engraving of grotesque man writing at table. At end of text: Providence--Printed and sold by J.S. Hayward, six rods east of the Market. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Handsome Harry, or, The deceitful young man

Printed in two columns. At head of title wood-engraving of grotesque man writing at table. At end of text: Providence--Printed and sold by J.S. Hayward, six rods east of the Market. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Handsome Harry

Handsome Harry

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments, printed in three columns divided by curvilinear lines. At head of text, cut of sailing ship at sea, with caption: This same Harry, as he was sailing .. At end of text: Sold wholesale and retail by J.G. Hunt, at Song Depot and Book Stand, South Side City Wharf.

Handsome Harry

Handsome Harry

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments, printed in three columns divided by curvilinear lines. At head of text, cut of sailing ship at sea, with caption: This same Harry, as he was sailing .. At end of text: Sold wholesale and retail by J.G. Hunt, at Song Depot and Book Stand, South Side City Wharf.

Hands together

Hands together

Brown University

Tamara Hand [and] Marie Hand. Printed in colors on ivory paper; text in reproduced typescript. At head of title colored illustration of snow-covered pine tree in landscape. Cover title. Includes four poems by Marie, beginning with The oldest shepherd, and one by Tamara. Suggested publication date taken from copyright date of the illustration.