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

Acrostic: Mary Porter Chase

Poem in three stanzas, with initials spelling out: Mary Porter Chase. Author's name and date from ms. notation on Brown University copy.

Acrostic on Henry B. Bascom, D.D

by Roswell Rice. Poem in 11 four-line stanzas, with first letters of first three stanzas spelling Henry B.Bascom. Suggested publication date from date of Bascom's death.

Acrostic dedicated to Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Broadsheet. To be sung to the tune: Fair Harvard. Poem in three stanzas, with initial letters of all but last three lines spelling Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Type-signed at end: James L. Smiley, Annapolis, Md. On verso advertising matter for books by Smiley, beginning: By the same author.

Acrostic

Acrostic

Brown University

Acrostic on Linwood Cemetery, Haverhill, Mass.

Acrostic

Acrostic

Brown University

Printed on green paper. Acrostic reads: B.F. Butler. At end of text: Baltimore, March 16, 1863.

Acrostic

Acrostic

Brown University

Acrostic for Gilbert Avery Tracy.

Across the valley, Buchenwald

by Eso Anton Benjamins. Broadsheet printed on cream paper in three columns; first and second columns divided on each side divided by rules. Poem in 15 numbered sections. Place and date of publication from another edition of section 9 (Brown University copy HB31441)

Across the valley, Buchenwald

Printed in black and colors on white paper. Colored ornamental border at left and below; map of Poland and Prussia at lower right. Poem in one stanza of ten lines and two of five. In lower margin: cEso 1978.

Across the sea

Across the sea

Brown University

words by Mark G. Bunce ; music by Anna Denkhaus. For voice and piano. Caption title. Cover illustration: photographs of Mark G. Bunce, Anna Denkhaus, and M.J. Bunce.

Achan's sin

Achan's sin

Brown University

by F.E.W. Harper. Poem. Variant text of her poem, The sin of Achan, as published in her Poems (Philadelphia: Merrihew & Son, Printers, 1871), p. 41-42. Text within double line border. First line: Night closed o'er the battling army.

Ach, Wilheim!: song

Ach, Wilheim!: song

Brown University

by Michael Sweeney. Pages [2] and [4] blank. Ornamental border on page [1] Cover title. Text of song in three eight-line stanzas with eight-line chorus beginning: War time, gay war time, come again, come again.

Accepted odes

Accepted odes

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Within red single line border with corner ornaments.

Academy of Music! Positively two nights only! The beautiful and talented equestrienne, pantomimist & melo-dramatic ac...

Playbill for Sept. 20 performance of Mazeppa! or, The wild horse of Tartary and farce The Irish tutor. Cast of characters matches that of Milner's Mazeppa. Day of performance on item and existence of the Academy of Music in Providence point to 1867 as imprint date. Includes 17 lines from Byron's Mazeppa. At end of text: Providence Press Company, Printers, 16 Weybosset Street.

Absence brings you nearer to my heart: ballad

lyric by Paul Benedek ; music by Alfred Solman. For voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for "After a thousand years": p. 2. Advertisement for "The road for you and me": p. 3. Advertisement for "The magic of your eyes": p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of woman beside window.

Absence brings you nearer to my heart: ballad

lyric by Paul Benedek ; music by Alfred Solman. For voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for "After a thousand years": p. 2. Advertisement for "The road for you and me": p. 3. Advertisement for "The magic of your eyes": p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of woman beside window.

Abriss dess Kaÿsserlichen Fewerwercks Schlosses: vnd Barraquen,: worinen dass Fried vnd Freudenmahl gehalten worde, v...

The print depicts fireworks displays held on the night of 14 July 1650 on the St. Johannis Schiesplatz in Nuremberg to celebrate the restoration of peace within the Holy Roman Empire after the conclusion of the Thirty Years War (cf. Lotz). According to Nagler the print was engraved by Peter Troschel after a drawing by Michael Herr, and consists of two leaves. Unsigned with engraved legend below the image

Abraham's daughter

Abraham's daughter

Brown University

T.p. illustration: lithograph of Ben Cotton by Nahl Bro's., L. Nagel, print., from a photo. by Bryan & Johnston T.p. illustration: lithograph of Ben Cotton by Nahl Bro's., L. Nagel, print., from a photo. by Bryan & Johnston As sung by Ben Cotton; arranged by F.H.H. Oldfield For voice with piano Additional verses printed as text on p. 3

Abraham my Abraham: song & chorus

For voice and piano with 2-part men's chorus. Verses 3-5 printed as text on p. 5 Words by Wm. K. O'Donoughue, Esq.; arranged for the pianoforte by Chas. G. Degenhard

Abraham May

Abraham May

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments. At head of text: Mr. May lost his eyes and right hand while blasting on the Utica and Black River Railroad, at Redwood, August 10, 1871.