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.
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Items in this collection

Ye criticke

Ye criticke

Brown University

Printed in three columns. At end of poem: Greensburg, Pa., Aug. 15th, 1865.

Ye Copperhead

Ye Copperhead

Brown University

Within double border, inner one single-line, outer one curvilinear. Poem in twelve four-line stanzas, with prose introduction defining the copperhead snake. At head of text: By One of Abraham's Chosen Children. Wishes to make the northern Copperheads share the soldiers' discomforts and dangers.

Ye colonial Dames of modern time

Pages [2,4] blank. Printed in brown. Headband at head of title; initial block. At end of text: Ornamental border. Author identified in poem.

Ye Christmas bells

Ye Christmas bells

Brown University

Poem, issued as a Christmas card. At end of text: Eugene Field. Page [4] blank. On p. [1], cameo ill. of "Madonna Granduca" by Raphael, with decorative border. "Otherwise 'Christmas hymn' in 'A little book of Western verse,' 1889"--BAL. On p. [2]: Typogravure card ... [copyright] Washington Cathedral, Mt. St. Alban, D.C. [Logo:] Pride Mark, Baltimore, New York. Made in U.S.A. Printed in olive green on light brown card stock. First line: Sing Christmas bells!

Yankees on the Rhine

Yankees on the Rhine

Brown University

words by F.N. Graves ; music by John A. O'Shea. March for low voice and piano, in key of C major. Cover title. Also published for: band, orchestra, school ed., and high voice and piano in key of D.

Yankeeland

Yankeeland

Brown University

words and music by Harry E. Reardon. For voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of soldier and sailor and U.S. shield / E.S. Fisher.

Yankee's return from camp

Printed in two columns. At head of title in center wood-engraving of seated officer under a tree, addressing militiamen. Imprint information suggested by comparison with broadside "Hunters of Kentucky" (HB1596) Authorship of this version of Yankee Doodle attributed to Edward Bangs. See S.F. Damon "Yankee Doodle", p. 6.

Yankee sailors

Yankee sailors

Brown University

At head of text: For Cuba libré, 1898. At end of text: Senex.

Yankee sailors

Yankee sailors

Brown University

At head of text: For Cuba libré, 1898. At end of text: Senex.

Yankee sailors

Yankee sailors

Brown University

At head of text: For Cuba libré, 1898. At end of text: Senex.

Yankee management, or, A lesson to John Bull

Poem. Printed in two columns; printed area: 19.7 x 13.1 cm. At end of text: Printed and sold at No. 26, High-Street Providence--Where Shopkeepers, Pedlars, and others can be supplied .. The poem with changed stanzaic arrangement is also known under the title: The Parliament of England. Imprint date suggested by the Providence Directory listing of Henry Trumbull at above address for 1824 only.

Yankee land

Yankee land

Brown University

Pages [2,4] blank. Page [1]: By Marv.

Yankee hits-it, corn-doctor

At beginning of text: A Corn-Poem written partly out of enthusiasm .. At end of text: This Corn-Poem can be had for lc.

Yankee girls

Yankee girls

Brown University

words by D.A. Carson ; music by Vincent J. Nery. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: woman holding U.S. flag.

Yankee girl, I'm coming back to you

words by Jack O'Brien ; music by Billy Timmins. March for voice and piano. Caption title. "Dedicated to General Clarence R. Edward and the 26th Division"--Cover. Cover illustration: photograph of Gen. Edward, commander of the "Yankee Division", pinning the War Cross on Lieut. Paul H. Hines, of the 102nd Inf. on Boston Common, Feb. 1919.

Yankee girl, I'm coming back to you

words by Jack O'Brien ; music by Billy Timmins. March for voice and piano. Caption title. "Dedicated to General Clarence R. Edward and the 26th Division"--Cover. Cover illustration: photograph of Gen. Edward, commander of the "Yankee Division", pinning the War Cross on Lieut. Paul H. Hines, of the 102nd Inf. on Boston Common, Feb. 1919.

Yankee Doodle's in the fight to stay

words by W.H. Goodfellow ; music by Harry P. Guy. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing based on "Spirit of 1776"

Yankee Doodle's going to Berlin

words and music by Kent Perkins. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisements for other songs: p. 3-[4] War slogans: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of soldier in tank / EE Walton; photograph of Vernon Stiles, army song leader / Apeda, N.Y.

Yankee Doodle: New version

Text of song in five numbered four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Yankee Doodle, guard your coast. At end of text: London, July 4th, 1857.