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

Glory

Glory

Brown University

To be sung to the tune: John Brown's Body. Text of song in eight four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Glory, glory, Hallelujah. At end of last stanza above chorus: Copyright, 1918, by Wm. W.K. Nixon.

Glen echo

Glen echo

Brown University

Within single line border. At head of text: Washington, D.C. August 15, 1912.

Giving

Giving

Brown University

Title within ornamental bars.

Give with a smile

Give with a smile

Brown University

lyric by E.W. Newton ; music by E.W. Newton and H.S. Leavitt. For voice and piano. Caption title. Additional chorus for use in campaigns for liberty bonds and war saving stamps: p. 5. Advertisement for this and one other song: p. [6] Cover illustration: U.S. and service star flags.

Give thanks, all ye people

Metrical version of Lincoln's Proclamation for Thanksgiving on October 3, 1863. For bibliographical information and reprint of Broadside see Stewart McClelland's article: "Lincoln's Thanksgiving hymn"

Give me a kiss by the numbers: (in cadence "one-two-three")

by Jos. F. Trounstine. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: 3 drawings of soldier kissing woman / [rose symbol] Illustrator's name represented by rose symbol on cover. Also published for: band, orchestra, male quartette.