"Thy will be done."
Brown University
Within ornamental border. First line: When your life is full of trials.
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.
This collection has the following subsets:
- Blondie Robinson collection of African-American Minstrel and Vaudeville photographs
- Ciné-Tracts
- Dupee Fireworks Collection
- Fernando Birri Archive of Multimedia Arts - Escritos
- H. Adrian Smith Magic Objects Collection
- Harris Broadsides
- Julie Adams Strandberg Collection: 50 Years of Dance at Brown University
- Lincoln Sheet Music
- Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830s-1920s)
- Rites and Reason Theatre
- Songsters and Hymnals from the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
- World War I Sheet Music
- Yiddish Sheet Music
Items in this collection
"This means you."
Brown University
Poem in three six-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: By Herbert Foster, So. Lawrence, Mass. Suggested range of publication dates from dates when United States took part in World War I.
"There will be a day."
Brown University
1 broadsheet. Text printed in blue on white. Text on recto within double line border. Verso has list of the author's publications.
"The war is over"
Brown University
1 broadsheet.
"The tum, tum, tum."
Brown University
1 broadsheet. Issued in postcard format.
"The things you learn at school"
Brown University
"The rose of the rancho."
Brown University
Printed in white on recto and reddish brown on verso in postcard format. Text on verso superimposed on reproduction of photograph of actor and three actresses on stage or motion picture set; actor standing in friar's dress, two older actresses standing with raised arms, and younger actress on ground, supporting herself with hands. No other text on recto. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and date of first New York production of The rose of the rancho by D. Belasco and R.W. Tully.
"The rôle of poetry in the modern world.": Unitarian radio broadcast. Station WAAB. March 10, 1940
Brown University
1 broadsheet. Poetry and prose. Broadsheet folded into thirds, creating six numbered pages, containing interview conducted by Dr. Everett Moore Baker of poet John Holmes.
"The Moving Puzzle" (box with instructions containing game)
Brown University
"The last broadside" of the frigate Cumberland
Brown University
Within border of type ornaments. At head of text: The following lines were written upon hearing of the heroism ..
"The last broadside" of the frigate Cumberland
Brown University
Within border of type ornaments. At head of text: The following lines were written upon hearing of the heroism ..
"The Jolly Jester," an inflateable toy.
Brown University
"The Emerald Isle"
Brown University
Printed in green. At head of text: The first poem of his ever printed was the "The Exile's Departure." He was then 18 years old. At end of text: An unpublished poem of John G. Whittier.
"The day that will live in infamy."
Brown University
"The Coin Cards" envelope
Brown University
"The birth of Venus"
Brown University
"The American creed"
Brown University
Printed on orange card stock.
"Telling it to her."
Brown University
Text printed in black on recto, in green on verso in postcard format. At head of title colored illustration of costumed young woman holding pail, captioned: Evangeline at the well. Title from first line of two-line excerpt from Longfellow's Evangeline. Author's name not on item. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence. "Printed in Great Britain"--Verso. Stamped in purple on verso: Wm. H. Morton, 65 Concord St., Portland, Maine.
"Squaw's little papoose."
Brown University
Pages [2,4] blank.
"Snuggle close my inky, blinky coon."
Brown University
"Show them the light"
Brown University
by William Charles Benni. Printed in three columns divided by single lines in reproduced handwriting. Poetry.
"Sammy's errand."
Brown University
"Sammy's errand."
Brown University
"Sammy's errand."
Brown University
"Reconstruction": "Vox populi, vox Dei." A poem delivered in Library Hall, Chelsea, at the close of a lecture on Sunday evening, Sept. 23d
Brown University
by Lizzie Doten. Within border of type ornament sections. Colophon printed vertically in right margin: Sold by J.S. Dodge, 127 Hanover Street, Boston, dealer in Fancy Goods, Jewelry, &c. Poem in 17 four-line stanzas. Suggested publication date from internal evidence; Sept. 23 fell on Sunday in 1866, 1873, 1877 and 1879.
"Rags"
Brown University
by Edmund Vance Cooke. Printed in two columns. Poem in ten four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.