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

Buzzers unit

Buzzers unit

Brown University

John M. Bennett. Printed on white paper within wide black border. "Wild buzzers attacking" printed vertically at right. Place of publication and publisher information from donor.

Buy your hats of Callahan

1 broadsheet. Within double line border. Air: Climbing up the golden stairs. Advertisement for Callahan, the Hatter.

Buy our bonds

Buy our bonds

Brown University

words and music by John H. Densmore. March for voice and piano. Caption title.

Buy a Red Cross Rosie: song

lyric by Alfred Bryan ; music by Harry Tierney. March for voice and piano. Caption title. "Dedicated to Mrs. Edwin Collins of Los Angeles Chapter American Red Cross"--P. 3. Advertisement for other music: p. [6] Cover illustration: Red Cross Rosie contribution pins / Starmer.

Buy a liberty bond now!

Buy a liberty bond now!

Brown University

words & music by Statia O'Don[n]ell. For voice and piano. Caption title. "Dedicated to the U.S. Army and Navy." Cover illustration: U.S. shield and eagle design.

Buy a bond boys!: buy a bond girls!

lyric & music by I.M. Cassel. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for another song: p. [6] Cover illustration: a tank, the Statue of Liberty, and U.S. liberty bonds.

But one picture on the wall

Text of song in four eight-line stanzas with four-line refrain beginning: I know a humble cottage small. At end of text: Copyright, 1907, by W.F. Parmelee.

Busted

Busted

Brown University

Bedford St. George. Processed copy on white paper. Poem. Place and date of publication from pencil notation on Brown University copy.

Burns and Beecher

Burns and Beecher

Brown University

At end of text: This poem was written by a Scotch woman .. First line: I hear the task has fa'n to you.

Burning driftwood

Burning driftwood

Brown University

Poem. Title highlighted by line ornamentation. At end of text: John Greenleaf Whittier. First line: Before my driftwood fire I sit.

Burning driftwood

Burning driftwood

Brown University

Poem. Title highlighted by line ornamentation. At end of text: John Greenleaf Whittier. First line: Before my driftwood fire I sit.

Burning driftwood

Burning driftwood

Brown University

Poem. Title highlighted by line ornamentation. At end of text: John Greenleaf Whittier. First line: Before my driftwood fire I sit.

Burial of Lieut. Henry Eld, Jr

Printed on gray paper within ornamental border. At head of text prose account of writing of poem by a member of the crew of the U.S. Ship-of-the-Line Ohio on which Lieut. Eld died, type-signed: P. Stow, Seamen's Chaplain, Boston. May 1st, 1850. Poem in six numbered four-line stanzas. At end of poem: A.T.P.

Burial of Lieut. Henry Eld, Jr

Printed on gray paper within ornamental border. At head of text prose account of writing of poem by a member of the crew of the U.S. Ship-of-the-Line Ohio on which Lieut. Eld died, type-signed: P. Stow, Seamen's Chaplain, Boston. May 1st, 1850. Poem in six numbered four-line stanzas. At end of poem: A.T.P.

Burial of Lieut. Henry Eld, Jr

Printed on gray paper within ornamental border. At head of text prose account of writing of poem by a member of the crew of the U.S. Ship-of-the-Line Ohio on which Lieut. Eld died, type-signed: P. Stow, Seamen's Chaplain, Boston. May 1st, 1850. Poem in six numbered four-line stanzas. At end of poem: A.T.P.

Burial of Euclid, of the class of '63

Program contains songs in English and Latin. Text within mourning border. At head of title in Greek letters: Odon heurēsō ē poiēsō. At end of text on page [1]: Union Hall, 10 P.M. Yale: November 16, 1860.

Burial of Euclid by the Class of '58

Text on page [1] within double line border with ornaments; on other pages within border of type ornament sections. In English and Latin. Suggested publication date from internal evidence.

Burial of calculus: By the Class of "'59."

Within mourning border. At end of text on page [1]: Hamilton College: Friday, Dec. 4, 1857. Program of mock exercises. Includes words of songs in Latin, English, and mixed Latin and English.

Burial of calculus: By the Class of "'59."

Within mourning border. At end of text on page [1]: Hamilton College: Friday, Dec. 4, 1857. Program of mock exercises. Includes words of songs in Latin, English, and mixed Latin and English.

Burial of calculus: By the Class of "'59."

Within mourning border. At end of text on page [1]: Hamilton College: Friday, Dec. 4, 1857. Program of mock exercises. Includes words of songs in Latin, English, and mixed Latin and English.

Burial hymn

Burial hymn

Brown University

by Rev. Henry C. Graves. Text of hymn in three eight-line stanzas.