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

Dear Laura, accept this lock I send

Printed on watermarked white paper within black border at edges. Title from first line. Poem in eight lines. Type-signed at end: Albany, N.Y., Sept., 1846. L. A. F. Shailer.

Dear lad o' mine: song with piano accompaniment

words by Katherine Hale ; music by Gena Branscombe. March for soprano or tenor and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Also published for alto or baritone and piano.

Dear friends and brother-sailors all

Poem, in six stanzas; an appeal for charity. At head of text: Tune, I would offer thee this hand of mine. Below text: Having known Anthony K. Simonds for a number of years ... [Printed signature:] Rev. Moses How. July 12, 1859. The needy sailor is sometimes identified as "Anthony K. Simmons." Cf. eds. of the similar broadside appeal with title: Pity the blind. Printed area: 23.1 x 8 cm. Printed within elaborate border of type ornaments on white paper; short rule separates tune title from text, long rule separates text from endorsement.

Dear Friend, The custom of sending memorial cards to friends upon the death of a relative

Broadsheet printed in one column on recto and three columns on verso. On recto letter offering memorial cards, with price list. On verso, headed: Be careful to send the number of the verses selected when ordering, 24 numbered sample verses, beginning with There is no death! an angel form (First line) Title from first lines of letter. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Dear Ferlinghetti: Dear Jack : the Spicer/Ferlinghetti correspondence

Folded vertically. Printed on tan paper. Stamplike cut of sitting rabbit captioned: White Rabbit in upper right corner of page [1] possible printer's mark. Includes letter from Spicer to Ferlinghetti concerning placing of Spicer's book in bookshop and Ferlinghetti's reply headed: City Lights Bookshop, dated 12 March, 1964, and with typed signature: Open Face; also includes advertisement for Spicer's The holy grail, and 13-line poem.

Dear Alfred Charles Kinsey

Poetry. Peach-colored paper printed and illustrated in brown, light green, and red-brown. Below and at left of text illustration of insect on leaf. Type-signed at end: Richard Tagett 9/70.

Dean Stanley

Dean Stanley

Brown University

Sonnet. At end of text: Wm. Pitt Palmer. New York, Dec. 1878.

Deacon Jones' experience

Bret Harte. Broadsheet. Cf. BAL 7276. At head of text: Arkansas Conference. 1874. Card with reproduction of A. M. Willard painting on recto, Harte's poem printed on verso.

Deacon Jones' experience

Bret Harte. Broadsheet. Cf. BAL 7276. At head of text: Arkansas Conference. 1874. Card with reproduction of A. M. Willard painting on recto, Harte's poem printed on verso.

Deacon Giles' distillery

At head of text four engravings with captions by Miles St. John; text printed in 5 columns beneath. At head of text: From the Salem Landmark. "Inquire at Amos Giles' Distillery" At end of text: Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1835, by Miles St. John .. Title of above is also: The dream. Cf. [Cheever, G.B.]: The dream: or the true history of Deacon Giles' distillery, and Deacon Jones' brewery. (76/C5155d/1848) The piece appeared originally in the Landmark, vol. 1, no. 46, Salem, Mass., 1835.

De skeeters do bite

De skeeters do bite

Brown University

words by Marshall S. Pike ; arranged by L.V.H. Crosby. For voice and piano. Caption title. Cover illustration: lithograph of the Harmoneons, with portraits of Js. Power as Toney, M.S. Pike as Fanny, L.V.H. Crosby as Pomp, F. Lynch as Gumbo, and Jno. [sic] Power as Sambo / W. Sharp. "W. Sharp & Co. litho."--Cover.

De nativitate Domini

De nativitate Domini

Brown University

Notkerus Balbulus. Page [4] blank. On page [1] reproduction of photograph of house. Latin poem and English translation on opposite pages.

De history ob de world

De history ob de world

Brown University

arranged for the piano forte by T. Contreso. For voice and piano. Caption title. Sung by William Parker in the popular extravaganza of the Buffalo Gals at the Adelphi. Additional verses: p. 3.

De Day of No Mo, Rites and Reason Theatre

The opening scene where the souls dance around in gauzy shrouds. The opening scene where the souls dance around in gauzy shrouds. De Day of No Mo, Rites and Reason Theatre, University Archives Subject Photographs, 1-Q, Brown University Library 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/)

De darkie's rally: song & chorus

Cover illustration: lithograph of African American men with sign "Colored recruts wanted" For voice and piano Caption title "T. Sinclair's lith, Phila"--Cover

De color'd fancy ball

De color'd fancy ball

Brown University

For men's voices (TTB) and piano. Caption title. "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1847 by Firth & Hall..."--Cover. Additional verse printed on p. 6. Series titles 1-18 listed on cover. Cover illustration: lithograph of the Ethiopian Serenaders in concert, labelled with names, Pell, Harrington, White, Stanwood, and Germon.

David B. Hill and the A.P.A

Campaign song attacks Hill, Tammany Hall and Roman Catholics; Hill was a Democratic candidate for the presidential nomination. Campaign song attacks Hill, Tammany Hall and Roman Catholics; Hill was a Democratic candidate for the presidential nomination. By E.A.W. Printed in two columns. Text of song in eight six-line stanzas.