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

1 July 1972: Gyps fulvus

by Walter Hamady. Printed in black and reddish-brown on cream laid paper. At left of text drawing of human face and vultures. Poem. "Drawing by Mary Laird, entry by Walter Hamady."

*Asquamchumauk-e

*Asquamchumauk-e

Brown University

John Foster, the Manchester poet. At end of text: (From The Mirror and American, [Manchester, N.H.] July 18, 1913)

[Time]s as they are

[Time]s as they are

Brown University

Poem in twenty-four stanzas. Printed area measures 21.2 x 15.5 cm. Text printed in two columns divided by line of advertising: Sold wholesale and retail by Leonard Deming, No. 1 Market-Square, corner of Merchants Row, Boston. Leonard Deming is listed at this address in Boston directories for 1829 to 1831; also cited as No. 1, Faneuil Hall, South side. This edition not in Ford or Checklist Amer. imprints. First line is missing the first few words; ends in "has become all a cheat."

[Postcard of stage scene]

Printed on glossy paper in postcard format. On recto reproduction of black-and-white photograph of 12 costumed young girls on stage. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

(If I am not at the roll-call): kiss her good bye for me

words and music by George L. Boyden. Waltz for voice and piano. Caption title. Sung by: Millicent Pauline Clark. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Millicent Pauline Clark / Boston Photo Eng. Co.

(Goodbye and luck be with you): laddie boy

words by Will D. Cobb ; music by Gus Edwards. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Rio Janeiro": p. [5] Advertisement for "Rose Marie" and three other songs: p. [6] Cover illustration: drawing of a soldier saying good-bye to his sweetheart / Edgar Keller, '17.

(Good-bye and luck be with you): laddie boy

words by Will D. Cobb ; music by Gus Edwards. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of a soldier saying good-bye to his sweetheart / Edgar Keller, '17.

"Yankee": (he's there, all there)

words and music by Chas. K. Harris. Waltz for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of U.S. Marine.

"Wilson, democracy, and the red, white and blue."

words and music by Wm. H. Hollingsworth. For voice and piano. Caption title. Cover illustration: photograph of W.H. Hollingsworth, left profile, printed in black ink; drawing of Statue of Liberty.

"What! rob a poor man of his Beer!"

by John Barleycorn, Jr. Poetry and prose. Within border of type ornaments. First line same as title. Includes poem in five four-line stanzas and paragraph about male employees'spending two-thirds of wages to saloons. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

"What is the German's Fatherland?"

At head of text: Translated from the German of Arndt by Theo. Sutro. German Verbruederungs-Fest, New York, August 19, 1870. First line: What is the German's Fatherland?

"Vanity Fair."

"Vanity Fair."

Brown University

Broadsheet. Poetry. Type-signed at end: By William Silk. On verso:William Silk, Umbrellas Manufacturer, Central Falls, R.I. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

"Until we know"

"Until we know"

Brown University

At end of text: Cora Linn Daniels, Sardia Lodge, Wrentham, Mass. March 1, 1898.