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

Victory

Victory

Brown University

Cover title. Page [4] blank. Printed in blue on white cardstock. Illustration of statue "Winged Victory of Samothrace" below title on page [1]

Victory

Victory

Brown University

Cover title. Page [4] blank. Printed in blue on white cardstock. Illustration of statue "Winged Victory of Samothrace" below title on page [1]

Victory

Victory

Brown University

words & music by Nicholas Colangelo. March for voice and piano. Caption title. "Dedicated to the Heroes of the Allies." Cover illustration: soldiers marching behind color guard / E.H. Pfeiffer.

Victory

Victory

Brown University

words by Jack Wilson & Ben Bard ; music by M.K. Jerome. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Dedicated to: Miss Ray C. Sawyer. Advertisement for "Mammy's chocolate soldier": p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of a U.S. marine holding a rifle and a U.S. marine flag / Alvan C. Hadley.

Victory

Victory

Brown University

Cover title. Page [4] blank. Printed in blue on white cardstock. Illustration of statue "Winged Victory of Samothrace" below title on page [1]

Victory

Victory

Brown University

Printed in two columns. At end of text: M.E. Codman, September 26, 1914, Klein Laufenkery.

Veterans of the Great World War

[words by] Tom Twohig ; arranged by Joe Solmon. For voice and piano. Caption title. Music by Sam Habelow; words by Tom Twohig. Cover illustration: a soldier, a sailor, and silhouette of soldiers charging.

Vestigia

Vestigia

Brown University

Page [2] blank. Title on page [3] On page [1] at head of text reproduction of photograph by M. Gibbon of man on hilltop looking out over landscape. Text on page [1] begins: The place of vision used by the Indians in the old days and ends: Lake Windermere in the distance. Bliss Carman. Photograph by Murray Gibbon. On page [3] poem in five five-line stanzas, type-signed: Bliss Carman. On page [4]: From Mitchell Kennerley, Christmas, 1922.

Very well I thank you

Very well I thank you

Brown University

At end of text: Gertrude Stein, Belignin, 1939. An announcement of the engagement of Louise Antoinette Krause and Robert Bartlett Haas, whose names are printed on the verso. Poem mentions Louise and Bobolink as engaged couple. Printed on blue paper.

Verses, on Commodore Preble's engagement with the Tripolitans

By Capt. Daniel Eldridge. Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments; border of type ornaments at top and bottom. Printed area measures: 28.1 x 14.2 cm. Poem in twenty numbered four-line stanzas. Not in Shaw and Shoemaker.

Verses, appropriate on the occasion of the dedication of the Ladd and Whitney Monument: at Lowell, on Saturday, June ...

Celebrates monument to Massachusetts soldiers killed in the Baltimore riot Apr. 19, 1861. Celebrates monument to Massachusetts soldiers killed in the Baltimore riot Apr. 19, 1861. Text within ornamental border, printed in two columns divided by double line. Cut of monument at head of first column. At head of text: Composer, George G.B. DeWolfe, W.P. To be sung to the tune: Sword of Bunker Hill. Poem in eight eight-line stanzas.

Verses on the wreck of the Titanic

Within mourning border. Poem in ten four-line stanzas. At end of text within border: Composed and sold by Arthur E. Belyea. Suggested publication date from date of shipwreck.

Verses on the uncertainty of life and certainty of death

by David Spaulding--late of Chelmsford, deceased. Printed in two columns. Original dimensions unknown. Printed area measures: 23.4 x 14.7 cm. Not in Ford, Bristol or Checklist of Amer. imprints to 1829. Suggested publication date from internal evidence; type face suggests a late 18th or early 19th century date. Another edition of poem (Brown University copy HB14478) is attributed to "an old gentleman who died very suddenly in Cornish."

Verses of the campaign

Verses of the campaign

Brown University

Poem in two stanzas. Type-signed at end: Tony Hagemann, Composer. No. 1 Washington Place, Chicago, October 30, 1908.

Verses dedicated to a generous public

Composed by Mr. Austin J. Kyte. Printed in three and four columns divided by double lines. At center portrait in ornamental frame captioned: Austin J. Kyte. Above portrait prose account of Kyte's accident headed: Read and reflect. Author statement in full at end of text below double rule: Composed by Mr. Austin J. Kyte, the handless vender of poems, Girardville, Schuylkill Co., Pa., late of Philadelphia, Pa. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence; Kyte's accident occurred in 1878.