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 hymn: Come, children, hail the Prince of Peace

Title includes first line. Within border of type ornaments. Text of hymn in eight four-line stanzas. At end of poem: Philad. April 10, 1811. At end of text below lower border: W. M'Culloch, Printer.

A hymn: Come, children, hail the Prince of Peace

Title includes first line. Within border of type ornaments. Text of hymn in eight four-line stanzas. At end of poem: Philad. April 10, 1811. At end of text below lower border: W. M'Culloch, Printer.

A hymn: Come, children, hail the Prince of Peace

Title includes first line. Within border of type ornaments. Text of hymn in eight four-line stanzas. At end of poem: Philad. April 10, 1811. At end of text below lower border: W. M'Culloch, Printer.

A hymn on the death of President Lincoln

by James Nicholson. Within mourning border. At head of text: Sung at Wharton St., M. E. Church, April 16, 1865. Poem in six four-line stanzas. Suggested place of publication from dealer.

A hymn of trust

A hymn of trust

Brown University

L. Adele Neuhut (A graduate of the New York School for the blind.) Poetry. At end of text: Respectfully dedicated to Mr. Tonzo L. Sauvage.

A hymn of commemoration

A hymn of commemoration

Brown University

Tune: Bera. At end of text: Written in memory of Mrs. Alice Miller Rice, the re-dedication of the Church of the Unity, and the installation of the new organ ..

A hundred million

A hundred million

Brown University

written and composed by Alfred H. Paxon. Printed on glossy pale blue paper in two columns. Colored illustrations of American flag at left and right of title. To be sung to the tune: Wearing of the green. Text of song in five numbered eight-line stanzas with eight-line chorus beginning: Then go forward, Woodrow Wilson.

A humble appeal for the "kneeling slave."

By George Kent, Esq. Within single line border. At head of text wood-engraving of kneeling chained Negro. Poem in six four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence, and because the Civil War is not mentioned.