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

Yes, that is victory

Yes, that is victory

Brown University

Broadsheet printed on tan paper. Poem in 16 two-line stanzas and one further line, imitating Kipling's If. At end of poem: Author unknown. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.

Yes, sah! I'll leab dis banjo

Printed on card stock. Colored illustration of an elderly black man holding banjo advertising verse beneath. Label above man's shoulder: Garland Stoves and Ranges. Title from first line of poem. Date from internal evidence.

Yes, sah! I'll leab dis banjo

Printed on card stock. Colored illustration of an elderly black man holding banjo advertising verse beneath. Label above man's shoulder: Garland Stoves and Ranges. Title from first line of poem. Date from internal evidence.

Yes, sah! I'll leab dis banjo

Printed on card stock. Colored illustration of an elderly black man holding banjo advertising verse beneath. Label above man's shoulder: Garland Stoves and Ranges. Title from first line of poem. Date from internal evidence.

Year: childwinter summer spring

Reproduction of holograph manuscript. Printed in three columns. Subtitle printed vertically at left and right and horizontally below title. Folded to 15 x 16 cm.

Year: a Wednesday paper supplement

by Angus MacLise. 1 broadsheet. Broadsheet folded into twelths, creating 24 pages. Printed in red and black. Subtitle on inside fold: "Printed by the Dead Language ... with a drawing by Aubrey Beardsley of Saint Rose of Lima ... "

Year: a Wednesday paper supplement

by Angus MacLise. 1 broadsheet. Broadsheet folded into twelths, creating 24 pages. Printed in red and black. Subtitle on inside fold: "Printed by the Dead Language ... with a drawing by Aubrey Beardsley of Saint Rose of Lima ... "

Ye hearts of men with purpose high!

Title from first line. Text of song in seven numbered six-line stanzas. Suggested publication date from repeated mention of "fifty years" of Alpha Delta Phi's existence; the fraternity was founded in 1832.

Ye gambolier

Ye gambolier

Brown University

Pages [2]-[4] blank. Poem in seven numbered four-line stanzas. Author's name not on item. Attributed to John Hay by donor, Mrs. Clarence Hay. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Ye gallant sophomore

Ye gallant sophomore

Brown University

Poetry. To be sung to the tune: Ye man that takes his lager beer. Humorous song in three stanzas with chorus about adventures of sophomore at a university in Ithaca, who escapes from a madhouse in Utica but is unrecognized by his keeper among the other lunaticlike sophomores. At head of text: Second edition. At end of poem: C. F. A. Author's full name not printed on item; taken from pencil notation on Hay Library copy. Date suggested because footnote substituting "ye gallant '74" for "ye gallant sophomore" indicates hero is member of class of 1874; Cornell University, in Ithaca, held first classes in 1868--Encycl. of Amer. facts and dates, New York, 6th ed., 1972, p. 275. First line: There is in sober Ithaca.