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

The village blacksmith

The village blacksmith

Brown University

Printed in color on heavy glossy paper in postcard format. At head of title and at left colored illustrations of blacksmith working in front of smithy, shamrocks, hammer, horseshoes, anvil and tongs. First two stanzas of poem with music. Author's name not on item. "Printed in Germany"--Verso. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The victory will be our Uncle Sams

words and music by Cora Courtney-Hay. For low voice and piano. Caption title. "Dedicated to our President, Woodrow Wilson." Cover illustration: Uncle Sam, U.S. shield / EH Pfeiffer, N.Y. Also published for: high voice.

The veterans are coming

The veterans are coming

Brown University

by L. Grennan, Co. "D" 20th Ohio Infantry Volunteers. Tune: The Campbells are coming. Within ornamental border printed in two columns divided by double line. At end of text within border: U.S. General Hospital No. 2, Vicksburg, Miss., 1864.

The veterans are coming

The veterans are coming

Brown University

by L. Grennan, Co. "D" 20th Ohio Infantry Volunteers. Tune: The Campbells are coming. Within ornamental border printed in two columns divided by double line. At end of text within border: U.S. General Hospital No. 2, Vicksburg, Miss., 1864.

The veterans are coming

The veterans are coming

Brown University

by L. Grennan, Co. "D" 20th Ohio Infantry Volunteers. Tune: The Campbells are coming. Within ornamental border printed in two columns divided by double line. At end of text within border: U.S. General Hospital No. 2, Vicksburg, Miss., 1864.

The veteran's cry

The veteran's cry

Brown University

At head of title: Lines written by Mrs. Ellen E. Jack, widow of Capt. Charles E. Jack, of the Farragut Fleet, U.S. Navy. Internal evidence suggests date approximation.

The veteran's call!

The veteran's call!

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments. At head of title: Published expressly for the benefit of disabled soldiers and their families.

The veteran

The veteran

Brown University

By Albery A. Whitman. Poems. Author statement enclosed within square brackets. Text within double line border.

The Vaughan House up in Maine

1 broadsheet. Printed on green card stock. On verso photograph of hotel. Advertisement for hotel, New Vaughan House, on verso. Date from internal evidence.

The vase of flowers

The vase of flowers

Brown University

Poetry. Printed in two columns. At head of title cut of flowers in vase, inscribed at lower left "E. Whitefield Del." Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The vampire church

The vampire church

Brown University

Walter J. Coates. Printed in red and black on heavy paper in two columns divided by line of type ornament sections within border of type ornament sections; rubricated initial. Poem in eleven four-line stanzas. Imprint and suggested range of publication dates from dealer.

The vampire church

The vampire church

Brown University

Walter J. Coates. Printed in red and black on heavy paper in two columns divided by line of type ornament sections within border of type ornament sections; rubricated initial. Poem in eleven four-line stanzas. Imprint and suggested range of publication dates from dealer.

The valley of silence

The valley of silence

Brown University

Printed on pink paper in two columns divided by ornament. Poem in eleven six-line stanzas. Author's name not on item. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and because poem published in author's Father Ryan's poems, San Francisco, 1879 with title Song of the mystic.

The unshadowed way

The unshadowed way

Brown University

Christmas card At end of text: Read at the thirty-fifth anniversary of the writers' college class, and now sent to you with Christmas and New Year's greetings from Harry and Helen Koopman ..

The unshadowed way

The unshadowed way

Brown University

Christmas card At end of text: Read at the thirty-fifth anniversary of the writers' college class, and now sent to you with Christmas and New Year's greetings from Harry and Helen Koopman ..