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.
This collection has the following subsets:
- Blondie Robinson collection of African-American Minstrel and Vaudeville photographs
- Ciné-Tracts
- Dupee Fireworks Collection
- Fernando Birri Archive of Multimedia Arts - Escritos
- H. Adrian Smith Magic Objects Collection
- Harris Broadsides
- Julie Adams Strandberg Collection: 50 Years of Dance at Brown University
- Lincoln Sheet Music
- Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830s-1920s)
- Rites and Reason Theatre
- Songsters and Hymnals from the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
- World War I Sheet Music
- Yiddish Sheet Music
Items in this collection
Twelfth anniversary Cincinnati Union Bethel: Sunday, April 8, 1877, 2 1/2 o'clock p.m
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Within ornamental border.
Twelfth anniversary Cincinnati Union Bethel: Sunday, April 8, 1877, 2 1/2 o'clock p.m
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Within ornamental border.
Twelfth anniversary Cincinnati Union Bethel: Sunday, April 8, 1877, 2 1/2 o'clock p.m
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Within ornamental border.
Twas the day before Christmas and all was agog
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Title from first line. French fold; printed on double leaves. Printed in red and green.
Twas the day before Christmas and all was agog
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Title from first line. French fold; printed on double leaves. Printed in red and green.
Tuskegee Normal and Industrial School, for training colored teachers, at Tuskegee, Alabama: Its story and its songs
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Edited by Helen W. Ludlow .. Songs arranged by R.H. Hamilton. Contains negro spirituals and songs.
Turn the rascals out and let them loaf and grow stout
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Title same as first line.
Turn on the lights
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Tune in -- old world!
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At end of text: Jean Palmer Nye. Brookfellow 1713.
Tumbling tumbleweeds
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Processed copy.
Tuesday
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Poetry. Printed on card stock. Illustration in color on gold ground of Afro-American woman ironing sheet; dialect poem at upper right. One of set of seven cards advertising Higgins' German Laundry Soap, one for each day of the week. Date from internal evidence.
Tubes made of rolled paper, painted black
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Tube: "The Game of Alley Oop"
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Tshiti mili
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Tryste noel
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Pages [2]-[4] blank. Christmas card. At end of text: Christmas greetings MCMIII. Olive and Frederick Whiting.
Try, try again
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Left margin contains ornamental border. At head of text: A revised version for certain kinds of Sunday-school workers.
Truxton's victory: and Female drummer
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Poetry printed in two columns divided by single line. Type ornaments at head of text.
Truxton's victory
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1 broadsheet. Broadsheet with poetry printed in two columns divided by curvilinear lines. Centered beneath title on verso wood-engraving of sailing ships approaching land; title on recto flanked by two small designs. At end of second column on recto: Printed by N. Coverly, Jun. Milk-St. Boston. This edition not the same as Shaw/Shoemaker 32972. Lacks sub-title "or brave Yankee boys", but has additional text with title on verso, which could have been added at a later time.
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Truxto[n]'s victory: And Female drummer
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Poetry printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. At end of text in second column: A great and large assortment ... may be found, at the corner of Marshall and Hanover Streets, Boston .. Internal evidence suggests date approximation.
Truths in false lights - false lights as true
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Truths in false lights - false lights as true
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Truths in false lights - false lights as true
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Truth never lies
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Within ornamental border.
Truth never lies
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Within ornamental border.
Truth never lies
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Within ornamental border.
Truth and justice
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Poem says truth and justice are fighting to pass "this bill--ten hours a day." Poem says truth and justice are fighting to pass "this bill--ten hours a day." Within chain border of type ornaments. Poem in ten four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: Richard Driver. Valley Falls, R.I. Suggested range of publication dates because a ten-hour bill was being discussed in the Rhode Island General Assembly in 1885 and afterwards.
Truth
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Within single line border.
Truth
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Within single line border.
Truth
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Within single line border.