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.

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Funeral march to the memory of Abraham Lincoln, the martyr president

Funeral march to the memory of Abraham Lincoln, the martyr president

Brown University

Composed and arranged for four voices by Alfred Delaney; words by J.G. Percival For piano "To the memory of Abraham Lincoln, the Martyr President of the United States of America, who died April 15th, 1865, in the 57th year of his age"--Caption. Advertisement: Select catalogue of new music, no. 1, 1865 on p. [6]. Title page illustration: lithographed port. of Lincoln. "Lith. of Major & Knapp, 449 Broadway, N.Y."

Funeral march to the memory of Abraham Lincoln, the martyr president

Funeral march to the memory of Abraham Lincoln, the martyr president

Brown University

Music by Mrs. E.A. Parkhurst For piano. At head of title: The nation mourns. "To the memory of Abraham Lincoln, the Martyr President of the United States of America, who died April 15th, 1865, in the 57th year of his age"--Caption. Advertisement: Select catalogue of new music, no. 1, 1865 on p. [6] Title page illustration: lithographed port. of Lincoln. "Lith. of Major & Knapp, 449 Broadway, N.Y."

Funeral hymn

Funeral hymn

Brown University

At end of text: 57 W. Brookline Street, (Blackstone Sq.) Boston, Mass.

Funeral dirge

Funeral dirge

Brown University

Poetry. Within border of type ornaments. At head of text: Composed by Daniel Flagg, water cure physician. At the time when Church Members were contributing to purchase a sword for Gen.Pierce to carry to Mexico. Place suggested because Gen. Pierce was from New Hampshire and another Flagg item was published in Concord; date because of reference to the war with Mexico. First line: Hark from the tombs a doleful sound.

Full moon over Soledad

Full moon over Soledad

Brown University

Pages [2,4] blank. Text printed in black and blue-grey. Illustration of caged angel in blue with orange moon on page [1]. Poem in four stanzas of differing length. Acquired in 1972.

Full moon over Soledad

Full moon over Soledad

Brown University

Pages [2,4] blank. Text printed in black and blue-grey. Illustration of caged angel in blue with orange moon on page [1]. Poem in four stanzas of differing length. Acquired in 1972.

From-- Henry Russel's History of Marquette

From-- Henry Russel's History of Marquette

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Printed in reddish brown on cream paper. Cover title. At head of text on page [2]: The following is taken from the Detroit Free Press of September 27, 1897. Type-signed at end of poem: A.E.W. Detroit, September, 1897.

From-- Henry Russel's History of Marquette

From-- Henry Russel's History of Marquette

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Printed in reddish brown on cream paper. Cover title. At head of text on page [2]: The following is taken from the Detroit Free Press of September 27, 1897. Type-signed at end of poem: A.E.W. Detroit, September, 1897.

From-- Henry Russel's History of Marquette

From-- Henry Russel's History of Marquette

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Printed in reddish brown on cream paper. Cover title. At head of text on page [2]: The following is taken from the Detroit Free Press of September 27, 1897. Type-signed at end of poem: A.E.W. Detroit, September, 1897.

From Without music

From Without music

Brown University

Michael Palmer. At end of text: Boston 1 May 1975. A Fire Exit Broadside Printed at the Barn Dream Press.

From where Maine's farthest northern brook

From where Maine's farthest northern brook

Brown University

Elizabeth Akers. Printed on glossy white paper in postcard format in six columns. On recto reproductions of black-and-white landscape photographs captioned: Lock draw bridge, Scene on the Songo, and Songo lock, and two photographs of boats captioned: Sir Hawthorne and Sir Longfellow. Title from first line of poem. Poem in seven stanzas of varying length. "From 'Sunset song and other verses,' copyright 1902 by Lee and Shepard, Boston."

From Varese & "river up 28 feet"

From Varese & "river up 28 feet"

Brown University

Caption title. Printed on beige paper. Poem printed on recto over length of piece. Cover title, printed horizontally on outside fold: From Varese by Ronald Caplan. Colophon at end of poem: Desert Review Press, 917 Idlewilde Lane, SE, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

From Two penny lane: a new novel

From Two penny lane: a new novel

Brown University

by Fielding Dawson. Light gray-brown paper printed in black. At left of text reproduction of photograph of back view of girl holding books and looking at bookshelves. Title from verso. Imprint information from dealer.