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

Come back to Boston

Come back to Boston

Brown University

Text within ornamental border with reproduction of photograph of Boston Public Library and drawing of ship at end of text. To be sung to the tune: Come back to Erin. Text of song in two eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Then, come back to Boston, where'er ye are dwelling. Type-signed at end: C. Selwyn Worrell.

Come back Daddy

Come back Daddy

Brown University

words and music by Marguerite Jean Beasley. For voice and piano. Data on composer and composition on t.p. Cover illustration: photograph of composer.

Come back again, my honey

Printed in gold and colors on heavy glossy paper in postcard format. At head of title full-color reproduction of photograph of city street scene with tall buildings and elevated railroad. Title from first line. Three lines of verse urging return to "dear old Manhattan Isle." Printed vertically in red in left margin: Photo only copyrighted 1907. De Witt C. Wheeler. On verso: Illustrated Song Serie No. 1812. By permission of the publishers, Francis, Day & Hunter, New York. Publ. by Theodor Eismann, New York. Printed in Germany.

Come all ye Revelers! - Dance the night

Advertisement for the sixteenth annual Greenwich Village Ball. Advertisement for the sixteenth annual Greenwich Village Ball. Title from first line. Printed in black on green paper. Illustration of dancing couple in costum at head of title on page [1]; of black trio at top of page [4]

Come across

Come across

Brown University

words by Grace C. Foote ; verse melody by John Hermann Loud ; chorus by Myra E. Fiske. Waltz for voice and piano. Caption title. "Dedicated to Our Defenders in khaki and blue"--Cover. Cover illustration: drawing of soldier and sailor.

Come

Come

Brown University

Poetry in 6 six-line stanzas. Within double ruled border.

Columbia's centennial greeting: a cantata

Poem by Samuel C. Upham. Music omitted. Text within double line border; printed in red and blue. On page [1] between words of title illustration of Columbia holding American flag. Cover title. Poem on pages [2]-[3]; advertising material on page [4]

Columbia's centennial greeting: a cantata

Poem by E. Pluribus Unum. Music omitted. Text on pages [1] through [3] within double line border; printed in red and blue. Page [4] without border with cut of Liberty Bell captioned: "Proclaim liberty throughout the land, to all the inhabitants thereof." and colophon: Gulbertson & Bache, Prs. 8th & Jayne Sts. Phila.

Columbia's call: march

Columbia's call: march

Brown University

singing chorus by George L. Cobb ; [music] by Bob Wyman. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Dedicated to: Miss Isabelle Linford Smith, Brookline, Mass. Advertisement for a magazine: p. [4 Cover illustration: drawing of figure of Columbia with soldier and sailor and four inset scenes of workers / Starmer.

Columbia, the home of the free

At head of text: By George Coronway (author of "The Battle of Manila") who died at his home on September 28, 1902.

Columbia, the home of the free

At head of text: By George Coronway (author of "The Battle of Manila") who died at his home on September 28, 1902.

Columbia, a national song

Pages [1,4] blank. Printed on yellow paper. At head of text: Most respectfully dedicated to Jules Benedict, Esq. by his humble servant, The Author.

Columbia is calling for thee

by Dr. Dan Harris. Printed in dark blue on glossy white paper. Text of song in four four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: They are calling, calling to us. Publication date from Library of Congress stamp on Brown University copy.

Columbia

Columbia

Brown University

by William Kimberley Palmer. Printed in sepia on cream paper. Cover title. Poem in eight four-line stanzas.

Columbia

Columbia

Brown University

by William Kimberley Palmer. Printed in sepia on cream paper. Cover title. Poem in eight four-line stanzas.