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.

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Items in this collection

A darkies life is always gay

A darkies life is always gay

Brown University

as sung by Christy's Minstrels. For mixed voices (ATTB) Caption title. Verses 3-4 printed on p. 5. Titles 1-17 in series listed on cover.

A dandy song

A dandy song

Brown University

Printed in three columns. Date approximation suggested by internal evidence.

A craftsman's creed

A craftsman's creed

Brown University

Poetry. Printed on tan paper. Rubricated initial block. Facsimile or actual signature at end of text: James P. Haney. Place and date of publication suggested because item found in poetry book New Year greetings by J. P. Haney, New York, School Art League, 1923. First line: I hold with none who think not work a boon.

A craftsman's creed

A craftsman's creed

Brown University

Poetry. Printed on tan paper. Rubricated initial block. Facsimile or actual signature at end of text: James P. Haney. Place and date of publication suggested because item found in poetry book New Year greetings by J. P. Haney, New York, School Art League, 1923. First line: I hold with none who think not work a boon.

A country love song: together with Tom Bolin

A country love song: together with Tom Bolin

Brown University

Printed in two columns, with line of type ornaments at head of second poem. Two woodcuts, on left bird, on right man with dog, flank title. At end of text: Printed by Nathaniel Coverly, Jun'r. Internal evidence suggest date approximation.

A Corinthian box

A Corinthian box

Brown University

D.r. Wagner. Text in typescript superimposed on multicolored design decorated paper. At head of text: th uinta gargoyl #6/june 75. At end of text: publisht bi.../Moon Graphics...

A contraband song: The following rare lyric is the favorite freedom song of the Mississippi Contrabands. Its characte...

A contraband song: The following rare lyric is the favorite freedom song of the Mississippi Contrabands. Its character and enthusiasm are great, and, among songs of its kind it has no superior. A well-known anti-slavery gentlemen of this city presents it to Forney's Press as a curiosity of contraband genius: Old Shady. : Air--Away down South

Brown University

Without music; Song in five stanzas. By Benjamin Russel Hanby and copyright 1861 by O. Ditson & Co. See Minstrel songs, old and new (Boston: Oliver Ditson Company, c1882) p. 22.

A collection of Sabbath school hymns

A collection of Sabbath school hymns

Brown University

compiled by a Sabbath school teacher, for the benefit of the children in the Confederate States. 70 hymns, without music. Includes index.

A collection of mi[s]celany poems is in preparation for the press: and will be shortly published if sufficient incou[...

A collection of mi[s]celany poems is in preparation for the press: and will be shortly published if sufficient incou[r]agement be given by subscription, which will be taken in by Thomas Hancock, bookseller in Ann-street Boston

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments (Reilly 572, 777, and 619) at end of each column; initial block. At head of text: The following lines are a specimen of the performance. Prospectus similar to above appeared in Boston News-Letter April 6, 1727. Not in Evans, Bristol, Wegelin, or Ford.

A Coast to Virginia

A Coast to Virginia

Brown University

Within ornamental border with ornamented corners. Song sheet; words only. Tune:--Red, White and Blue.