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

Celebration for the karamajong

by Cavan McCarthy. Processed copy. At head of title chart with red wavy line drawn across it ending in black "X." Each box on chart contains a syllable.

Celebration for the karamajong

by Cavan McCarthy. Processed copy. At head of title chart with red wavy line drawn across it ending in black "X." Each box on chart contains a syllable.

Celebration for the karamajong

by Cavan McCarthy. Processed copy. At head of title chart with red wavy line drawn across it ending in black "X." Each box on chart contains a syllable.

Celebration

Celebration

Brown University

Within triple-line border with ornamental corners. Text of song in four eight-line stanzas. At end of text below curvilinear line: Oasis Office, Nashua, N.H.--S.H. Noyes, Printer. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Celebration

Celebration

Brown University

Within triple-line border with ornamental corners. Text of song in four eight-line stanzas. At end of text below curvilinear line: Oasis Office, Nashua, N.H.--S.H. Noyes, Printer. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Cave of the winds: respectfully dedicated to F.H. Johnson

by Mary S. Pond. Within double-line border. At each side of poem wood-engraving of different view of Niagara Falls. Poem in four four-line stanzas. Below poem certificate beginning: This is to certify that [blank] has passed through the Cave of the Winds and behind the Central Fall on the American side, at the foot of Goat Island. Certificate has type signature: F.H. Johnson & Son, Proprietors. Suggested publication date from ms. date on Brown University copy.

Catalogue of songs: published and sold at wholesale by Horace Partridge, 51 Hanover Street, Boston

Printed in six columns divided by single lines; separate piece (34 x 14 cm.) tipped on at upper right below title. Title continues: Importer and dealer in Yankee notions, watches, gold and gold-plated jewelry, silver-plated hollow ware .... Numbered list of 1060 songs beginning with All around my hat and ending with Kiss me, Mother! Kiss your darling! grouped in eleven "assortments" on original sheet; added piece contains songs from no. 1061, I'm not a widow to no. 1228, Wandering refugee. At end of text below rule: Directions for ordering ballads signed: Horace Partridge, and on separate slip pasted on, Price of ballads, dated at Boston, Feb. 1, 1874.

Catalogue of songs: published and sold at wholesale by Horace Partridge, 27 Hanover Street, Boston

Broadsheet printed in six columns divided by single lines. Title continues: Importer and dealer in Yankee notions, watches, gold and gold-plated jewelry, silver-plated hollow ware .... List of 2062 numbered songs, beginning with All around my hat and ending with Far far away; songs on recto grouped into eleven "assortments" and songs on verso listed separately. At end of text on recto below rule Directions for ordering ballads and Price of ballads, type-signed: Horace Partridge, Boston, June, 1868.

Cat digging walls

Cat digging walls

Brown University

Printed on cream paper. Poem in 11 lines. Type-signed at end: Ray Bremser. Rmoved from portfolio Semina, no. 4.

Castrato to audience

Castrato to audience

Brown University

D.J. Hughes. Poem. "Reprinted from The Massachusetts review, Volume 3, No. 3, Spring, 1962."

Castles in the air

Castles in the air

Brown University

At end of text: Thomas J. Woolford: Co. H. Soldiers' Home, Va.

Castelfidardo

Castelfidardo

Brown University

Within single line border with corner ornaments Text within line borders with corner ornamentations At end of text: Octave Crémazie Quebec, 27 décembre, 1860