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

Be an optimist

Be an optimist

Brown University

Caption title. Decorated with red and green stylized flowers. Below decoration at end of text: Designed by C.W. Crosby 1922.

Bazascope mother

Bazascope mother

Brown University

by David Meltzer; photage, I. E. Alexander; backispiece, Zack Walsh. Poetry. Cover title. White paper printed in black, violet-blue and olive green; photograph of mustached nun on front cover, man and child on back cover.

Battleship rag

Battleship rag

Brown University

words and music by Thos. S. Allen. For voice and piano. Caption title. Dedicated to: Col. Benter, bandmaster (R.I.) Advertisement for another song: p. [6] Cover illustration: drawing of a battleship / WMF.

Battle of Fort Sumter

Battle of Fort Sumter

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line within ornamental border. Poem in ten numbered four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: William Rice. Rice City, Coventry, April 12, 1861.

Battle of Cedar Creek, October 19th, 1864

Printed in two columns divided by single line. Text of song in 13 four-line stanzas with two line varies chorus usually beginning: Get out of the way says Gen. Early. Author's name not on item.

Battle hymn of the Republic

By Mrs. Julia Ward Howe. At head of title vignette of seated draped female (Liberty or Columbia) holding liberty cap on pole and striped shield; eagle with wings spread stands in front of her. Text of song in five four-line stanzas with chorus beginning: Glory, glory, hallelujah!

Battle cry of liberty

Battle cry of liberty

Brown University

At end of text: Respectfully dedicated to the fighting boys of the U.S.A. and "Allies"

Bates co-ed

Bates co-ed

Brown University

Processed copy. Contains seven songs about Bates College.

Bates co-ed

Bates co-ed

Brown University

Processed copy. Contains seven songs about Bates College.

Basin Harbor Lodge, Vermont August twenty-fifth: 1849 - "My birthday" - 1934

Poem talks of the author's eighty-fifth birthday, the Basin Harbor Lodge on Lake Champlain, and driving an Air Flow Chrysler. Poem talks of the author's eighty-fifth birthday, the Basin Harbor Lodge on Lake Champlain, and driving an Air Flow Chrysler. Poetry in eighteen lines printed within single-line border in brown on beige hand made paper. At end of text: William Franklin Cushman, 110 Coolidge Street, Brookline, Mass.

Baseball songs, 1905

Baseball songs, 1905

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Caption title. Text of seven Yale athletic songs, beginning with: Boola.

Barney leave the girls alone, and The woodman's hut

Poetry and prose. Printed in two columns divided by ruled line of advertising: Sold wholesale and retail, by J.G. & H. Hunt, at N.E. corner of Faneuil Hall Market, Boston. At head of title: woodcut of dining scene. Variant of Ford 2965. First song interspersed with spoken monologue. Second poem ascribed to Charles Ward by Thomas L. Philbrick in "British authorship of ballads in the Isaiah Thomas collection," Studies in bibliography, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, v. 9, 1957, p. 255-258.

Barney Brallaghan, and Mistress Callaghan

Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. Between first and second lines of title, wood-engraving of flying bird holding Irish harp in beak. At end of text, below double rule: Printed and sold wholesale and retail by Christian Brown, No. 211 Water-st. five doors from Fulton-street New-York. Brown used this address from 1825 to 1829 and from 1832 to 1833. Comic Irish song.

Barking at shadows

Barking at shadows

Brown University

At end of text: Christmas 1969. White paper printed and illustrated in gray, black, and red; printed as a Christmas greeting.

Barbara Fritchie

Barbara Fritchie

Brown University

by John Greenleaf Whittier. Printed on heavy paper in postcard format. Text at left on recto, in two columns; at right, four colored illustrations captioned: Her flag, Her relics, Barbara Fritchie, and Her home.

Barbara Frietchie

Barbara Frietchie

Brown University

Photographed by Brady & Co., 352 Penna. Ave., Washington, for the Great National Fair. Card, printed on both sides. Recto: Mounted photograph (80 x 56 mm.) of "Barbara Frietchie" followed by 4 lines of the poem, separated by a single rule from the photographer's statement. Verso: Continuation of the poem, with text set solid.