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.
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Items in this collection

All on account of Eliza

All on account of Eliza

Brown University

Printed on yellow paper. Within border of type ornament sections. At head of text: As sung in the comic opera of "Billee Taylor." Text of song in four eight-line stanzas with three-line chorus beginning: All on account, all on account, all on account of Eliza. Colophon at end below curvilinear line within lower border: H.J. Wehman, Song Publisher, 50 Chatham St., N.Y. By H.P. Stephens but entered under title rather than author. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

All is well

All is well

Brown University

Poetry. Poem in five stanzas with refrain: All is well. All is well. Farewell of dying person confident of salvation. First published in 1844 edition of Sacred harp; has been attributed to J. T. White--George Pullen Jackson, Spiritual folk-songs of early America, New York, 1937, no. 58. Date suggested by appearance of item. First line: What's this that steals, that steals upon my frame.

All het up

All het up

Brown University

At end of text: Mailed to you for twenty-five cents a dozen.

All hail! To Foch!: song = Salut! A Foch!

words and music by Frnacis C. Chantereau. March for voice and piano. English and French words. Cover title. Dedicated to: Marshal Foch. Advertisement for "Come back to me": p. [6] Cover illustration: drawing of Marshal Foch. Parts available for orchestra and band.

All hail: Dedicated to Ethan Council 37

By Lud. Poetry. Within ornamental border in form of a ribbon with bouquets of flowers at the corners. At head of title: An Ode. Poem in four stanzas. Date suggested by appearance of border and type. First line: All hail to the land of the free and the brave.

All attributes of all that is

J. Howard Flower. Initial block. Title from first line. Poem in four four-line stanzas. Publisher information from dealer.

All attributes of all that is

J. Howard Flower. Initial block. Title from first line. Poem in four four-line stanzas. Publisher information from dealer.

All attributes of all that is

J. Howard Flower. Initial block. Title from first line. Poem in four four-line stanzas. Publisher information from dealer.

All alone in a city full of girls

lyrics by Rida Johnson Young ; music by Sigmund Romberg. For voice and piano. Caption title. From musical comedy: Her soldier boy. Advertisements for other songs: cover and p. [12] Cover illustration: drawing of soldiers marching.

All about the 24th Ind., Betty Decker, and Things

Printed in two columns divided by single line. Poem in 20 four-line stanzas. At end of text: Ephrim Swackhammer, son of old woman Swackhammer. Publication date suggested because of mention of battles of Shiloh and Prairie Grove, which took place in 1862. Author's name may be pseudonym.

All aboard for home sweet home

lyric by Addison Burkhart ; music by Al Piantadosi and Jack Glogau. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "It's a long ways back to school days" and three other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of soldiers boarding ship / [Starmer]; photograph of Mel Klee.

All aboard for home sweet home

lyric by Addison Burkhart ; music by Al Piantadosi and Jack Glogau. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Oh moon of the summer night": p. [4] War slogan: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of soldiers boarding ship, printed in black and brown ink / [Starmer] ; photograph of Elsie White.

Alive for evermore

Alive for evermore

Brown University

Title same as first line. Facsimile of author's signature at foot of text. Tipped into cover decorated with white silk ribbon and wax seal.

Alice Miller Rice: July 22, 1840.--March 27, 1900

Page [4] blank. Cover title. Text of two untitled hymns or poems, the first in three eight-line stanzas, the second in five four-line stanzas. Place of publication from ms. notation on Brown University copy.

Alice in wonderland: Copley Hall February ... 1897

Program of play for the benefit of the Boston Art Students' Association and poem. "The performance will be under the personal direction of Mr. James Gilbert. The music of the 'Jabberwock' song is by Mr. Robert Atkinson and the music of the 'Soup of the evening' song is by an unknown author."--P. [3] Title from p. [3]

Alfredian odes

Alfredian odes

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Printed in blue. Contains 5 odes.