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

Farewell to wife and children

Place of publication suggested because second poem praises Union soldiers from New Hampshire; suggested date because both poems deal with the Civil War.

Farewell to the old pipe organ

Poem bids farewell to old church organ and welcomes new one; name and location of church not given. Poem bids farewell to old church organ and welcomes new one; name and location of church not given. by B.F.M. Sours. Page [4] blank. Border at top and bottom. At head of text on page [1]: History. Made by Standbridge Bros., Philadelphia .... Dedicated with the Church on May 7, 1871. Poem in eleven seven-line stanzas. Publication date suggested because poem mentions "forty-years-and-three" as age of organ, dedicated in 1871 according to prefatory material.

Farewell to our home

Farewell to our home

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments. At end of text: Sturbridge, April, 1850. Tune ... Sweet home.

Farewell to Georgia

Farewell to Georgia

Brown University

words] written by S.S. Steele ; sung by A.F. Winnemore. For voice and piano. Caption title. Series titles 1-6 listed on cover. Cover illustration: lithograph of 2 Afro-American boys playing music.

Farewell ode: '81 to '79

Printed on blue paper within double-line border crossed at corners. To be sung to the tune: Araby's daughter. Text of song in three eight-line stanzas.

Farewell ode

Farewell ode

Brown University

Within ornamental border. Air: "Auld lang syne." The firm was active under above name in the 1850's and 1860's.

Farewell hymn

Farewell hymn

Brown University

At head of text: Sung on the occasion of parting with their Pastor, Rev. A.F. Bailey ..

Farewell hymn

Farewell hymn

Brown University

At head of text: Sung on the occasion of parting with their Pastor, Rev. Charles K. True ..

Farewell

Farewell

Brown University

Pages [2,4] blank. Tied, in cover. Page [1]: In memory of William Bacon Scofield ..

Farewell

Farewell

Brown University

Pages [2,4] blank. Tied, in cover. Page [1]: In memory of William Bacon Scofield ..

Farewell

Farewell

Brown University

Pages [2,4] blank. Tied, in cover. Page [1]: In memory of William Bacon Scofield ..

Farewell

Farewell

Brown University

At end of text: M.S.R. First line: Dearest Pastor, by appointment.

Farewell

Farewell

Brown University

Poem in four four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: Mrs. Sarah Wilcox Tanner. West Greenwich, R.I., March 28, 1868.

Farewel hymn, On the death of Miss Polly Goold

Poem in 16 six-line stanzas printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line. Imprint information supplied by Evans. The poem is a combination of two poems. The eight last stanzas are Wells Currier's: Elegy on the death of Miss Gould.

Farewel hymn, On the death of Miss Polly Goold

Poem in 16 six-line stanzas printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line. Imprint information supplied by Evans. The poem is a combination of two poems. The eight last stanzas are Wells Currier's: Elegy on the death of Miss Gould.