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

Filigree

Filigree

Brown University

by Rose Freeman-Ishill. Issued in green colored folio with an orange print of a filigree typed ornament on cover. Imprint from internal evidence. Broadside mounted on p. [3] of cover.

Fighting Joe Hooker!

Fighting Joe Hooker!

Brown University

by Wm. J. Shelton. Within double line border printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line. At head of text woodcut of mounted soldier with caption: "Fighting Joe" sets out. To be sung to the tune: Ole Dan Tucker. Place of publication suggested because a poem by this author on the Battle of Fredericksburg was printed here.

Fighting for the red white and blue

At head of title cut of American flag; at left center reproduction of photograph of author. Text of song in four numbered six-line stanzas with varied chorus. At end of text: By Mrs. L.A. Cornett, Willow Springs, Mo. Mother of three soldier boys. Price, 10 cents. Copyright date from Library of Congress stamp on Brown University copy.

Fight, boys, fight!

Fight, boys, fight!

Brown University

[words by] George L. Cutler ; [music by] Elliott W. Hayes. March for solo voice or unison voices and piano. Caption title. Advertisements for other songs: p. 6-[8] Also published for: male quartet or chorus in G major, octavo-size; voice and piano in F major, quarto-size; unison voices, 3x5 in. card.

Fight it out

Fight it out

Brown University

Poetry printed on brown card stock. Colophon at end on page 4: G.J. Alexander, 2208 Wallace Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Copyrighted, 1915.

Fight for the flag we love

by Clarence Zollinger and Billy Smythe. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Billy Smythe [?]; drawing of sailor and soldier with sailing ship.

Fight for the flag we love

by Clarence Zollinger and Billy Smythe. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Billy Smythe [?]; drawing of sailor and soldier with sailing ship.

Fight for freedom

Fight for freedom

Brown University

Printed in red on right and left panels of three partite broadside. TLS to Theodore Francis Green from author in middle panel.

Fifty years ago

Fifty years ago

Brown University

At head of title: It was the year 1906 that Waverly celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of her high school .. At end of text: Copyright 1908 by Edward Maximilian Betowski, 10 Johnson Street, Waverly, N.Y.

Fifty years ago

Fifty years ago

Brown University

by W.F. Cook, Co. E, San Francisco, Cal. Within double-line border with ornamental corners. Poem in 14 four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: W.F. Cook. At end of text below rule: These lines were written by Warren F. Cook who enlisted in April 1861 from the town of Bellingham, Mass., and joined Co. E organized at Medway, and became a part of the 2d Regiment, Mass. Vol. Inf. Suggested publication date from date fifty years after author's enlistment in 1861.

Fiftieth anniversary program: December 10, 1939

Processed copy on brown paper. Program for service at unnamed church includes week's schedule and poem. Author of anniversary poem Fifty years given on page [1] as Mrs. S.K.M. Robertson and on page [3] as Zella M. Robertson.

Fiftieth anniversary program: December 10, 1939

Processed copy on brown paper. Program for service at unnamed church includes week's schedule and poem. Author of anniversary poem Fifty years given on page [1] as Mrs. S.K.M. Robertson and on page [3] as Zella M. Robertson.

Fiftieth anniversary program: December 10, 1939

Processed copy on brown paper. Program for service at unnamed church includes week's schedule and poem. Author of anniversary poem Fifty years given on page [1] as Mrs. S.K.M. Robertson and on page [3] as Zella M. Robertson.