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

Alleluja! Alleluja!

Alleluja! Alleluja!

Brown University

Pages [2-4] blank, pages [2,3] ruled. Gilt decorative border frames upper half of text.

Alleluia!

Alleluia!

Brown University

Frenchfolded; printed on double leaves. Calligraphied holographic Christmas card in red and black ink. Signed by author with his monastic name: Brother Antoninus, O.P. At end of text: At Christmas 1952 St. Albert's College, Oakland.

Allegiance: patriotic song

For voice and piano. At head of title: Boston Sunday Advertiser: War Songs, Boston, Sunday, September, 15, 1918 At head of cover title: "Dedicated to that spirit of Americanism as typified by the immortal Lincoln"

Allegiance: patriotic song

For voice and piano. At head of cover title: "Dedicated to that spirit of Americanism as typified by the immortal Lincoln"

Allegiance: patriotic song

by Julia Smith. For voice and piano. Cover title. "Dedicated to That Spirit of Americanism As Typified By the Immortal Lincoln." Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of soldier, sailor, and Americna flag / E.S. Fisher.

Allegiance: (patriotic song)

lyrics and music by Julia Smith. For voice and piano. Caption title. "Dedicated To That Spirit of Americanism As Typified by the Immortal Lincoln"--Cover. Optional chorus for men's voices (TTBB): p. 5.

All you continentals of Asia, Africa, Europe

Pages [2] and [4] blank. French fold; printed on double leaves. Title from first line. Printed in green and blue with initial on blue paper. Text on cover within decorative border. Decorative bands at head and end of p. [3] Type-signed at end: Walt whitman.

All things work together

One broadsheet Printed on pink paper On verso: same poem repeated Hay Broadsides Harris copy: Mss. notation on verso Dorsie lives with Ruth Hamilton

All things work together

One broadsheet Printed on pink paper On verso: same poem repeated Hay Broadsides Harris copy: Mss. notation on verso Dorsie lives with Ruth Hamilton

All things work together

One broadsheet Printed on pink paper On verso: same poem repeated Hay Broadsides Harris copy: Mss. notation on verso Dorsie lives with Ruth Hamilton

All the week we spend

All the week we spend

Brown University

Printed on yellow paper within chain-link border. First line same as title. Text of children's hymn in three numbered six-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

All the corn in one barn

by Robinson Jeffers. Alberts, S.S. A bibliography of the works of Robinson Jeffers, no. 31.

All the blue bonnets over the border, and Old Grimes

Printed in two columns divided by line of advertising between rules. At head of text wood-engraving of grotesque man between two soldiers. Printed area measures: 22.1 x 14.6 cm. Between columns: Sold by L. Deming, wholesale and retail, No. 62, Hanover Street, 2d door from Friend Street, Boston. Deming used this address from 1832 to 1837.

All spice; or spice for all

Caption title within its own line border within overall border. Poetry in three fifteen-line stanzas printed in black within double line border. Type-signed end of text: Cola. Baltimore, March 7, 1862. According to Ellinger, p. 28, Cola is one of the pseudonymns used by N.G. Ridgely. Apparently first edition of this poem (dated March 7, 1862). Later versions (dated April 1, 1862 and type-signed "Le Diable Baiteux", another of N.G. Ridgely's pseudonyms) expanded the text to one ten-line and six fifteen-line stanzas (cf. Brown University's Hay Broadsides copy 1-SIZE HB 6922 MD and 1-SIZE HB17064 MD) and uses for one of the editions a different title: "Our opinion; a hit a these times."

All sorts of girls

All sorts of girls

Brown University

Broadsheet printed on card stock. On recto poem in seven six-line stanzas; in last stanza girl advises young men to "smoke and chew Mechanics' Delight." On verso within double-line border advertisement beginning: Lorillard's Mechanics' Delight tobacco is the best chew and smoke. Suggested range of dates from internal evidence.