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

A song, (to the tune of Yankee Doodle): for General Washington's birth-day, February 22d, 1795

By J. E. W. Printed in two columns divided by double line. At head of text: And sung by the company at the celebration of that anniversary. To be sung to the tune: Yankee Doodle. On verso: A song. Washington's birth-day. Printed area measures: 25.9 x 14 cm. Text of song in eleven four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Yankee doodle, keep it up. Not in Evans or Bristol.

A song supposed to be sung by 'onest Robert

At head of text: To the tune of Billy Barlow. Printed in two columns divided by double lines. Text of song in eight six-line stanzas. Suggested place and date of publication from pencil notation on Brown University copy.

A song of trust

A song of trust

Brown University

Printed in green; with floral border framing upper third of text.

A song of the shirt

A song of the shirt

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by rule; within double line border. Poetry on sewing by hand and by machine.

A song of the sea

A song of the sea

Brown University

Page [1]: Border of type ornaments at top. Contains advertising for Joseph Chabott Lake House, Rouses Point, N.Y. Date from internal evidence. Authors name not on item.

A song of Lincoln

A song of Lincoln

Brown University

Published in Normal instructor and primary plans, February 1929

A song of liberty: with piano accompaniment

[music] by J. Bertram Fox ; [words by Robert Maitland] For voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for another song: p. [10] Cover illustration: Roman military design / H.

A song of heaven

A song of heaven

Brown University

At head of text: Dedicated to America's soldiers and sailors.

A song of distances

A song of distances

Brown University

Within decorative border, hand-colored for Annie E. Fraser by W. MacDonald, Christmas, 1927.

A song of days

A song of days

Brown University

At head of text: Ninety-four days, from May seventh to August ninth 1918. I spent in jail ..

A song from Frederick Douglass

On recto, account of evening visit of Jubilee Singers to Frederick Douglass with text of spiritual he sang for them; on verso, text of letter of Mark Twain, dated Mar. 8, 1875, praising their performance. On recto, account of evening visit of Jubilee Singers to Frederick Douglass with text of spiritual he sang for them; on verso, text of letter of Mark Twain, dated Mar. 8, 1875, praising their performance. Broadsheet. Advertises concerts by the Jubilee Singers in Tremont Temple Mar. 18 and 20, 1875.

A song for the merry-making on Water Day

By a member of the Franklin Typographical Society. Within ornamental border. At end of text: Boston, October 25, 1848. First line: Away, away with care to-day!

A song for the class of '80

Words by Charles W. Bradley ; music by Joseph D. Redding. Printed in red. Poem in four eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: To thee, O Eighty, then we sing. Suggested place of publication and date from mention of Harvard in last stanza.

A song

A song

Brown University

First eight stanzas deal with draft evaders and Draft Riot in New York city; last three verses recommend William H. Kalbfleisch's tobacco store. First eight stanzas deal with draft evaders and Draft Riot in New York city; last three verses recommend William H. Kalbfleisch's tobacco store. composed by Joseph R. Winter, "Indian Dick," at the time of the draft for the Civil War. Poem in eleven four-line stanzas and four-line refrain. Suggested range of dates from internal evidence and because of reference to the time of composition; poem must have been printed after the war.

A soldier's rosary

A soldier's rosary

Brown University

lyric by J.E. Dempsey ; music by Joseph A. Burke. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Rose Dreams" p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of a soldier writing a letter, thinking of his mother / EE Walton.

A soldier's rosary

A soldier's rosary

Brown University

lyric by J.E. Dempsey ; music by Joseph A. Burke. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Rose Dreams" p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of a soldier writing a letter, thinking of his mother / EE Walton.

A soldier's rosary

A soldier's rosary

Brown University

lyric by J.E. Dempsey ; music by Joseph A. Burke. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Rose Dreams" p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of a soldier writing a letter, thinking of his mother / EE Walton.