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.
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Items in this collection

Down by the ferry

Down by the ferry

Brown University

Printed on heavy, glossy white paper in postcard format. At head of title reproduction of photograph of seated couple. Text of song in eight lines. "Life model series"--Verso. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Dove

Dove

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments. At head of title: Price ... two cents. Carrier Dove's Return. At head of text: "Fly back o'er the billowy main, sweet dove." Repeats as first line. At end of text: I.H. Welton, Publisher, No. 4 Walnut St., Lowell, Mass. Poem is reply to The carrier dove by Daniel Johnson, 1836.

Dove

Dove

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments. At head of title: Price ... two cents. Carrier Dove's Return. At head of text: "Fly back o'er the billowy main, sweet dove." Repeats as first line. At end of text: I.H. Welton, Publisher, No. 4 Walnut St., Lowell, Mass. Poem is reply to The carrier dove by Daniel Johnson, 1836.

Dove

Dove

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments. At head of title: Price ... two cents. Carrier Dove's Return. At head of text: "Fly back o'er the billowy main, sweet dove." Repeats as first line. At end of text: I.H. Welton, Publisher, No. 4 Walnut St., Lowell, Mass. Poem is reply to The carrier dove by Daniel Johnson, 1836.

Dove

Dove

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments. At head of title: Price ... two cents. Carrier Dove's Return. At head of text: "Fly back o'er the billowy main, sweet dove." Repeats as first line. At end of text: I.H. Welton, Publisher, No. 4 Walnut St., Lowell, Mass. Poem is reply to The carrier dove by Daniel Johnson, 1836.

Doutrick & McVey's Cricket Songster. Extra no. 7

1 broadsheet. Broadsheet; printed on salmon paper; in three columns divided by single lines within border of type ornaments. Contains text of 7 songs beginning with: Did he get there? [First line: A nice young man was a friend of mine]; call for agents on each page; recto numbered 27, verso 28. Publication date from copyright date on sheet.

Douglass grand march

Douglass grand march

Brown University

For piano Includes full length lithographed portrait of Lincoln by L.N. Rosenthal, Philadelphia. "Composed and respectfully dedicated to Hon. Stephen A. Douglas"--Cover.

Doughboy Jack and Doughnut Jill

words by Marcus C. Connelly ; music by Gitz Rice. For voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for another song: p. [8] Cover illustration: drawing of soldier and woman with Salvation Army uniform eating doughnuts / E.E. Waton.

Doughboy Jack and Doughnut Jill

words by Marcus C. Connelly ; music by Gitz Rice. For voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for another song: p. [6], [8] Cover illustration: drawing of soldier and woman with Salvation Army uniform eating doughnuts / E.E. Waton.

Doubletalk

Doubletalk

Brown University

He she because how / Anselm Hollo -- Poem / Ted Berrigan. Folded broadside sewn into lettered illustrated folded cover sheet and lettered green paper wrapper.. Poems. "240 copies have been printed." This copy is signed by the authors.

Double-faced woman

Double-faced woman

Brown University

Hand-colored illustration of double faced woman at head of text in upper two thirds of broadside. In lower margin at left, A.J. Fisher, N.

Dos Conferencias: Asesinato de Lorca por la Geometría (1947). Ubicación del surrealismo en las escuelas de vanguardia...

Immediate Source of Acquisition note: E1.1 Digital object made available by : Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts , Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)

Donation visit

Donation visit

Brown University

Printed on pale gray paper in two columns divided by curvilinear line. At head of text: Lines written for a donation visit, to the pastor of the South Church, at North Bridgewater, on the seventh anniversary of his installation, January 1, 1847.

Donation visit

Donation visit

Brown University

Printed on pale gray paper in two columns divided by curvilinear line. At head of text: Lines written for a donation visit, to the pastor of the South Church, at North Bridgewater, on the seventh anniversary of his installation, January 1, 1847.

Donation poem

Donation poem

Brown University

Poem, in 11 stanzas. An appeal for charity. At head of title: To the public. : Verses / composed by Mrs. Nancy J. Smith, a poor blind woman. Attribution questionable: one of several broadsides on a wide variety of subjects purporting to have been written by "Nancy J. Smith" variously described. Printed area: 21.1 x 13.6 cm. Printed in two columns. First line: The wants of life which do appear.

Don't you think you'd like to fondle me

words and music by Hughie Cannon For voice and piano Caption title Sung by: Dora Dean of Johnson & Dean Advertisements for other songs: p. [2, 7 and 8] Cover illustration: photograph of Dora Dean; drawing of Afro-American man and woman sitting on a train / Bert Cob

Don't you think it's time to marry?

Printed in red, green and brown on heavy white paper in postcard format. At head of text illustration of seated woman and kneeling man saying "Come to this manly bosum." First line same as title. Text and music of song chorus; music by Gus Edwards. "By permission of Copyright MCMVI by Gus Edwards Music Pub. Co. 1512 Broadway, N.Y."--Colophon. "No. 4600 Music Series"--Verso. Name of author of lyrics not on item.

Don't you go and worry, Mary

words by Ballard Macdonald ; music by Halsey K. Mohr. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisements for other songs: p. 3-[4] War slogans: p. [4] Cover illustration: soldiers and women / Barbelle.