'Tis now so long
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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
'Tis now so long
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'Tis no time to bicker
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Title from first line. At head of text: Richmond, Missouri. At end of text: Hale McCormick 2nd Asst. Thinker.
'Tis but a little faded flower
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Within border of type ornaments. At head of title: 702.
'Tis better to give
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At head of title: Reprinted from The Evangelical Harrisburg Pa., June 9, 1897. At end of text: Written at Boston, Mass., Oct. 7, 1874.
'Tis as easy now for the heart to be true
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1 broadsheet. Title from first line. Within single line border.
'Tis as easy now for the heart to be true
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1 broadsheet. Title from first line. Within single line border.
'Tis as easy now for the heart to be true
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1 broadsheet. Title from first line. Within single line border.
'O pigli in cura tu
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At end of text: Literary composition in verse. In an Italian dialect.
'O Calandriello 'America
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'Neath the old acorn tree, sweet Estelle
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Printed in colors on heavy white paper in postcard format; text on recto in brown and green, on verso in black. At left of title illustration of couple beneath tree with foot-shaped branches labeled: Ache corn. First line same as title. Words and music of song chorus. Author's name not on item; music by J. Fred Helf. "By permission of Copyright 1906 by Helf & Hager Co. Inc. 48 W. 28th St. N.Y."--Colophon. "No. 4600 Music Series"--Verso.
'I che guaie stanno' America
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At head of text: Strofette comiche In an Italian dialect.
'A serenata d"o cafone
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'77 Class dinner, June nineteenth, 1912
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Two poems. Caption title. Attributed to Edward Sandford Martin of "Life," according to ms. note on slip in Brown University copy 1 (HB32862). Martin was a member of the Class of 1877 at Harvard University.
'71 class ode
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Pages [1,4] blank. Contains music. First line: Classmates, let us sing to-day.
'63 is the jubilee
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Words by J.L. Greene; music by D.A. French
'61 and '98
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By W.S. Walker. Within double-line border. Illustration and decoration printed in red. At left of title illustration of military medal with ribbon. At end of text: Los Gatos, California. Written in May and first printed June 1, 1899.
'61 and '98
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By W.S. Walker. Within double-line border. Illustration and decoration printed in red. At left of title illustration of military medal with ribbon. At end of text: Los Gatos, California. Written in May and first printed June 1, 1899.
'61 and '98
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By W.S. Walker. Within double-line border. Illustration and decoration printed in red. At left of title illustration of military medal with ribbon. At end of text: Los Gatos, California. Written in May and first printed June 1, 1899.