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:

Items in this collection

Ambition

Ambition

Brown University

Within ornamental border.

Alumnae song

Alumnae song

Brown University

Music score, composed by Ella Richmond (Matteson) Phillips at head of text.

Alumnae Day

Alumnae Day

Brown University

Broadsheet folded to create 6 pages. Page [1] within ornamental border; leaf ornament below title.

Alternative

Alternative

Brown University

Pages [2,3] blank. Printed on green paper. Page [4]: Reprinted with permission of Sara King Carleton from her book, "To all Wayfers" ..

Alphabet of intemperance

Alphabet of intemperance

Brown University

by Ebenezer Bowman. Poem. Version in 28 stanzas; last verse begins: And you, my dear girls, of liquor beware. Probable imprint from another issue at Brown University. First line: A is for Alcohol, the curse of mankind.

Aloha, soldier boy

Aloha, soldier boy

Brown University

words by Sidney Carter ; music by Walter Smith. For voice and piano. Caption title. Pages 1-2 are unnumbered. Advertisement for "Dreamy moon": p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of soldier and Hawaiian woman / W.R. Cameron.

Aloha, soldier boy

Aloha, soldier boy

Brown University

words by Sidney Carter ; music by Walter Smith. For voice and piano. Caption title. Pages 1-2 are unnumbered. Advertisement for "Dreamy moon": p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of soldier and Hawaiian woman / W.R. Cameron.

Alma Mater

Alma Mater

Brown University

Text of song in three eight-line stanzas. Author's name not on item. Suggested place of publication from location of Brown University for which this song was composed; suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Alma Mater

Alma Mater

Brown University

Broadsheet printed in orange on heavy cream paper. At head of title drawing of books and sports equipment and open scroll inscribed "C.L.I." with view of buildings in background. Text of three college songs. Initials on illustration and mention of "Old Suffield" in Alma Mater indicate the Connecticut Literary Institution in Suffield, Conn. as place of reunion; suggested publication date because the 25th reunion of the Class of 1874 would be held in 1899.