Guide to the Neil O'Brien papers PA Mss 70
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Series I. Scripts
Americanization undated
Americanization undated
Aunt Sally's Syncopated Social 1918-1919
Bargain Day in a Department Store undated
Big Brother Club 1918-1919
Brave Bold Black and Tans undated
Captain Seagrass 1917-1918
Charcoal and Midnight Back from the Front undated
Child of the Desert undated
Fighting the Flames 1915-1916
Fire Department undated
Following the Flag 1912-1913
Following the Flag undated
Hopping the Atlantic Ocean 1920-1921
Hot Dog 1924-1925
House of Rest 1908-1909
Hunting the Hahas undated
In the Secret Service 1917-1918
Jitney Joy Bus [1] undated
Jitney Joy Bus [2] undated
Kernal Jim and Kasper undated
Kunnel Jim and Jasper undated
League of Explainations undated
Lost Purse and Demon Run or a Dry Town undated
Meatless Day 1918-1919
Meatless Day undated
Musical Sketch undated
Parcel Post and Demon Run undated
Pay Before You Enter, 1923-1924
Penny Arcade (No. 2) 1915-1916
Penny Arcade (No.1) 1915-1916
Potato Peeler [1] 1919-1920
Potato Peeler [2] 1919-1920
Potato Peeler [3] 1919-1920
Pressing Business Afterpiece 1924
Putt and Take Bankers 1922-1923
Quick Lunch [1] undated
Quick Lunch [2] undated
Quick Lunch [3] undated
Rapid Transit Trolley Car undated
Reforming the Force or the Substitute 1911-1912
Robber's Roost or Hunting the Who-Whats undated
Robber's Roost or the Hunting HaHas 1923-1924
Rufus In the Lion's Den 1922-1923
Street Car Act 1904-1905
Submarine (Dumont's copy) undated
Substitute undated
Troubles in a Bug House undated
Who's Boss 1913-1914
Wood Alcohol 1921-1922
Unknown Scripts undated
Unknown Scripts undated
Series II. Music and scripts
Afterpiece 1922-1923
Brave Black and Tans; Mexico 1916-1917
League of Explai-Nations 1919-1920
Look Out Song; Daddy Moon; Poor Butterfly 1924-1925
Sleepless Sleeper 1921-1922
Wood Alcohol 1921-1922
Series III. Published music
I Ain't Lookin' For Trouble undated
Lucy Lee (published and original) undated
Slew Foot Sal (published and original) undated
Lime Kiln Club 1893
If I Had A Dollah Of My Own (published and original) 1900
I Hope you Choke (published and original) 1901
You Ain't No Actor 1902
Sunday is My Day 1903
Never No More (published and original) 1905
Absolutely No (published and original) 1914
I'm On My Way to New Orleans 1923
Luxury (lyrics by O'Brien) 1912
Series IV. Original music
Following the Flag and Orchestration 1912-1913
Good Night White Folks 1913-1914
First Part Finale Opera Vs. Opera With Comedy 1913-1914
Opening Overture Words and Music 1913-1914
First Part Finale - Parody on Rigolletto Quartette Words and Music 1914-1915
Uncle Jo's Dream or In the Candle Light - Words and Music 1914-1915
Opening Overture Medley Words and Music 1914-1915
Opening Overture Short Medley 1915-1916
Medley Finale Season Words and Music 1915-1916
Rail Road Blues Me Myself Orchestrations 1915-1916
Advertising undated
End Song undated
Smile undated
Trouble undated
Twora Half undated
The Wood Alcohol Blues (may or may not relate to O'Brien) undated
Handwritten lead sheet scraps undated
First Part Overture Words and Music 1916-1917
Blacksmith on Song 1917
Opening Overture Words and Music Finale Was Tableau With Song; The Red Cross Muse 1917-1918
Mandy's Syncopated Reception 1917-1918
"Patriotic" Words and Music Finale was Tableau with song What Have You Done 1918-1919
Finale Songs Orchestrations & Words; Boys We Are Proud of you; After the Storm Comes the Rainbow; Tableau - Mother With Arms On Shoulders of Soldier & Sailor 1919-1920
Song and Dance; Medley of Song Titles; Orchestration and Words; Also Script 1919-1920
Opening Overture; Orchestration and Words also odd chorus Words 1919-1920
"Playmates" Song and Dance Words and Music 1920-1921
Americanization part of Orchestration 1920-1921
Opening Overture; Only a Fair Finale 1920-1921
Song and Dance; The Highbrow, Words and Music 1921-1922
First Part Overture; Finale Words and music; Only Few Parts of Finale Lucia; Overture of Reciting Minstrel Experience 1921-1922
In Grandma's Day; Oh You Wonderful Girl; Closing Number 1922-1923
Opening Overture 1922-1923
Lest We Forget; First Part Finale 1922-1923
In Day's of Old; Touch of Nature; Peach Orchard Scene 1922-1923
All Production Music for the Season 1923-1924
First Part Finale 1923-1924
Finale; Sextette - No Bananas 1924-1925
Melodies of Old Songs 1924-1925
Opening Overture 1924-1925
Assorted music [1] undated
Assorted music [2] undated
Assorted music [3] undated
Assorted music [4] undated
Leader undated
Medley undated
Opera--Jazz undated
What Have You Done undated
Series V. Published music (not O'Brien)
After All undated
A Little Street Where Old Friends West undated
Barcarolle undated
The Bell Buoy undated
Bells of Killarney undated
Darktown Doin's undated
Dear Old Ireland (signed for O'Brien) undated
Don't Ever Make Another Cry (performed by O'Brien) undated
Dreaming Song undated
Everybody Takes His Hat Off to Me undated
The Harbor of Love undated
If you Love Me When I'm Old, And Gray, Then You've Loved Me At the Proper Day undated
I'm Tying the Leaves so they Won't Come Down undated
In Flanders (signed for O'Brien) undated
In the Garden Where Sweet Colleens Crow undated
The Irish Jubilee undated
Jes' A Lonesome Pickaninny Baby undated
Jimmy Valentine undated
June's the Time for Roses undated
Just one Girl undated
Mammy's Little Kinky Headed Boy (signed for O'Brien) undated
Maureen Mavoureen undated
The Minstrel Street Parade (signed for O'Brien) undated
My Gal is a High Born Lady undated
Night and Day undated
Old Black Joe undated
The Old Sexton undated
One Love Letters undated
Out of the Sunshine Into My Heart (performed by O'Brien) undated
Playmates undated
Rosy Callahan undated
Sailing Away on the Henry Clay undated
When My Ships Come Sailing Home undated
The Widow of a German Threw Him Down undated
Other Varieties of music undated
Scrap of sheet music undated
Ditson March Folio For Orchestra undated
Francis and Day's 36th Dande and Piano Album undated
Official Songs - Chamber of Commerce undated
Miscellaneous undated
Series VI. Gags and scenes
A Perfect Day in Minstrelsy undated
Act With Trained Dog and Not Dog Stand undated
Adam Gigiletto undated
Aeroplane Finish undated
Alaska Ike undated
Americanization undated
Amos and Andy undated
Arithmetic undated
Back from the Front undated
Baron and World undated
Beasley's Dog undated
Big Breeze & Dusty & Other Dog Points undated
Boarding House undated
Bride in de Hand, etc. undated
Bud undated
Burglar Proof Lock undated
Camp Meeting undated
Caution undated
Chief undated
Cinder In His Eye undated
Cruise of the Ebony Yacht Club undated
Daisy Winner undated
Dear Chief undated
Dixie and the Darkie undated
Doctor Act undated
Doctors Act Big Words undated
Dog undated
Dog (different sketch) [1] undated
Dog (different sketch) [2] undated
Dog Gag undated
Dog for Sale [1] undated
Dog for Sale [2] undated
Dog for Sale [3] undated
Egg Festival undated
End Recitation undated
Engineer undated
Eskimo Finish/Gimmies undated
Farmer's Dream undated
Fashion Review undated
Fat-Thin Gal undated
Fight Gag undated
Fight Gags undated
Fighting the Flames [1] undated
Fighting the Flames [2] undated
Fighting the Flames [3] undated
Fireman Act In One undated
Fireman's Story undated
First Mate Lookout undated
Following the Flag [1] undated
Following the Flag [2] undated
France [1] undated
France [2] undated
Frying Pan Finish undated
George Wilson undated
Good Man is Hard to Find undated
Grippe undated
Hawkshaw undated
Henry Bragg undated
Hunting the HaHas undated
I Love to Sing While I dance undated
I Met You [1] undated
I Met You [2] undated
Ice Cream Gag undated
Indian Gag undated
Isie Knott undated
Jim Secret Lodge Hailing Signs undated
Judge and Senator undated
Kankukup undated
Killauia undated
Kleptomaniac Tambo Endman undated
Kunnel Jim & Jasper undated
Language of Flowers undated
Lizza undated
Locating the Leak undated
Love undated
Luther Wilberforce undated
Lying undated
Major Coffey undated
Mayor undated
McGinn's Inn undated
Misery Moan - Soldier undated
Misery Moan undated
Modern Evangeline undated
Moses undated
Mother in Law undated
Moving Pictures undated
Musical Act undated
My Dog Albert undated
Negro Sayings undated
No Account! undated
O.K. Alright undated
Onary Weather - Lying Gag undated
Opening Algie undated
Opening Henry undated
Parcel Post Bit undated
Panama Canal undated
Patter to Radio Girl undated
Political Pull Secretary undated
Political Pull Spuds undated
Politics [1] undated
Politics [2] undated
Polkadot Vest and Sinker [1] undated
Polkadot Vest and Sinker [2] undated
Possum and Arizona undated
Post Office [1] undated
Post Office [2] undated
Pressing Business - Fatima Truckmuck undated
Pressing Business - Ida Shuffles undated
Pressing Business - Nubby Shuffles undated
Pressing Business - Officer Strongman undated
Pressing Business - Pug Grumble undated
Pressing Business - Simp Zero undated
Pressing Business - Smokey Singe undated
Pressing Business - Stub Burhead undated
Pressing Business - Bit of First Writing undated
Pressing Club - Bit of First Writing undated
Pressing Business - All Parts undated
Pretty Knees undated
Prohibition undated
Ragging the Radio undated
Ragtime Opera undated
Rain Storm and Dust undated
Reorsed St Car undated
Ricord Material undated
Rival Cities undated
Robbers Roost or Hunting the Hahas (Scene 1) undated
Otter Side undated
Sailing undated
Sam's Son and De Liar undated
School Gag undated
See'd Your Sister Gag undated
She of the Movies undated
Shell Pink Ears undated
Sim Simpson undated
Sleepless Sleeper - sketch and letter undated
Slide, You'll Make It undated
Slim Trim Ankles and Dainty Feet/Patter undated
Smile Song undated
So-City Reporter undated
Soldier undated
Soldier--First Scene undated
Sam undated
Some Whiskey [1] undated
Some Whiskey [2] undated
Some Whiskey [3] undated
Song of Advertisements undated
Soup undated
So Why Worry Gag undated
Sparkling Eyes [1] undated
Sparkling Eyes [2] undated
Street Car undated
Street in One [1] undated
Street in One [2] undated
Symptoms End Gag undated
Tariff Reformer undated
That Funny Fellow undated
Theosophy undated
Two Hearts that Beat as One undated
Visiting a Medium undated
Webb Hardy undated
[skipped] undated
Welcome Home undated
What the Demo-crates, The Republi-Cans undated
What the Engine Done undated
Wife undated
Wise Button undated
Yale Student undated
Series VII. Gags and scenes (not alphabetized)
Neil O'Brien - Prospective Ideas - Books of Materials One undated
Neil O'Brien - Haverly's Minstrels - Books of Material undated
Neil O'Brien - Bits Book - Book of Materials undated
O'Brien's Gag undated
Unnamed Script Sections [1] undated
Unnamed Script Sections [2] undated
Unnamed Script Sections [3] undated
Unknown (Charcoal and Pat B.) undated
Unknown - (King and Morse) undated
Unknown - (Misery Moan and Snappy) undated
Unknown - (Sim and Henry) undated
Unknown - (Sim Simkins and Secretary Graft) undated
Unknown - (Sim and Secretary) undated
Unknown - (Zeke) undated
Prop Making undated
Afterpiece - Props and Wardrobe undated
Afterpiece - Wardrobe undated
Hawkshaw the Detective, Beasley's dog, Stump Speec - Wardrobe, Stage Description undated
Hydroplane - Prop List undated
Sleeper - Wardrobe undated
Sleeper and Afterpiece - Cast, Characters, Costume undated
Song and Dance - Wardrobe undated
Westchester Co. Club Minstrels, Wedding Scene, Levee Scene, Levee Scene 2 undated
Unamed Packet of Jokes (One post 1935) undated
Series VIII. Songs, recitations and poems
Absolutely No undated
The Alabama dip undated
All the Hills Are Full of Stills undated
At Sixty Cents an Hour undated
Auto (2) undated
Buying A Home undated
The Cruel Bartender undated
Dear Heart undated
Definition of a Blush undated
Different Auto's undated
Dis Ain't De Place I Thought It Was undated
Don't Try To Bluff Uncle Sam undated
End Gag (5) undated
Esau Buck undated
Essaw and the Buckshaw undated
Executive Ballad undated
Fables undated
Father Was A Fighter undated
Girls of Today undated
Goodbye Miss Sadie Green undated
The Greatest Financier undated
Have Some Kind of A Badge On Your Coat undated
He Wasn't In It undated
Honey undated
Hot [missing from folder] undated
I Ain't Scared undated
I'd Rather Be A Newsboy undated
I Feel So Lonely Comedy undated
I Hope You Choke undated
I Never Bother undated
I Wonder undated
I've Said Goodbye a Thousand Times undated
Language of Flowers undated
The Little undated
Living Humble undated
Lucy Lee undated
Luxury undated
Master and Dog undated
Never No Mo undated
9 Dollar Gag undated
No More Chop Suey For Me undated
Oh Lord Dese Feet of Mine undated
One Fond Lament undated
Opening Song - Big Brother Club undated
Pay for Rain undated
Prorder undated
Quinny undated
Railroad Gag undated
Rainy Weather and Dust Dog Gag undated
Right and Left undated
The Rise and Fall of Officer Dough undated
School Songs undated
Seven by Seven undated
She Wouldn't Give Me Tea Because She Had the Coffee Made undated
Social Party undated
Solid Ground undated
A Story in Fish undated
A Temperance Address undated
There's No Reason Why She Shouldn't But One Should See undated
Tell Dem Coons I'll Be There undated
Tonsorial Sam undated
The Wearing of The Green undated
Welcome Home undated
What Adam Missed undated
Which Won the War or Political Pull undated
Why Girls R[K?]iss Each Other undated
Wife Gag (3) undated
Winnia Way undated
Your Presence Tire Me You Ain't No Minstrel undated
Unnamed [1] undated
Unnamed [2] undated
Unnamed [3] undated
Unnamed [4] undated
Unnamed [5] undated
Unnamed [6] undated
Series IX. Miscellaneous family records
Neil Jr. and New York Electrical School undated
NYES [1] undated
NYES [2] undated
NYES [3] undated
NYES [4] undated
NYES [5] undated
NYES [6] undated
Diagram of Motors undated
Plane/Radio undated
Report Card for Jack O'Brien undated
Series X. Financial items and records
Receipts 1924
Receipts 1924
Receipts 1924
Salary Figures [1] 1925
Salary Figures [2] 1925
Receipts Unknown Year undated
Pennsylvania Systems Envelope undated
Insurance undated
Blank Contracts undated
Production Cost 1924-1925
Production Cost 1924-1925
Production Cost 1924-1925
Production Cost 1924-1925
Receipt 1927
Musical Receipt 1897 October 18
Check 1897 December 31
Check 1922 December 26
Harry O'Brien Penn. System 1923 January 1
Order Strobridge Lithographing Co. 1923 February 28
Receipt A.A. Calloway 1923 March 20
Performance Contract 1923 May 22
Receipt, Victoria [?] Theatre 1923 March 31
Telephone Bills 1923
Office Lettering Bill 1923 May 3
Steam Cleaning Receipt 1923 May 26
Storage Bills 1923
Receipt, Lumiere Studio 1923 June 7
Receipt, Apeda Studio 1923 June 22
Receipt, for Pneumatic Pillow 1923 July 9
Receipt, Benedict Engraving Co. 1923 July 30
Receipt, Vaughn 1923 August 4
Receipt, The General Flower and Decorating Co. 1923 August 13
Receipt, George Gorman 1923 August 17
Receipt, Elsinger Press, Minstrelsy in Review 1923 Augst 23
Receipt, Thorburn, Peck Co. Insurance 1923 September 4
Bills 1923
Telegrams 1923
Assorted Receipts 1923
Assorted Receipts 1923
Ledger Season 1917-1918
Ledger Season 1918-1919
Ledger, Season 1919-1920
Ledger, Season 1920-1921
Ledger, Season 1921-1922
Ledger, Season 1922-1923
Series XI. Programs and advertisements
1890-1899
1900-1909
1910-1913
1914
1915-1919
1920
1921
1922-1925
1926-1929
1930-1939
after 1940
Neil O'Brien's Minstrels - Programs undated
Neil O'Brien's Minstrels - advertisements undated
Bogert and O'Brien - programs and advertisements undated
Minstrel Advertisements: Dockstader/Field/Haverly/Primrose/Evans undated
Minstrel Programs - Field/Dockstader undated
Other Minstrels - Ads and Programs undated
Other Pamphlets and Programs undated
Series XII. Newspaper scrapbooks
Newspaper Scrapbook one undated
Newspaper Scrapbook two undated
Series XIII. Newspaper clippings
Neil O'Brien's Minstrels 1912-1913
Neil O'Brien Minstrels 1913
End of Minstrelsy undated
Neil O'Brien Minstrels 1915
Neil O'Brien Minstrels 1917
Neil O'Brien Minstrels 1920-1921
Neil O'Brien's Minstrels 1923-1925
Vaudeville Criticisms 1926-1928
O'Brien Rotary 1928
Mentions O'Brien 1929
Sidewalks of New York 1916, 1931
Dockstader - 25 Years Ago Today 1931
Dockstader - 25 Years Ago Today 1932
Dockstader - 25 Years Ago Today 1935
O'Brien as "Al Jolson of His Day" 1935
Brave Fire Laddies In Mount Vernon 1936
Jim Corbett 1938
Neil O'Brien 1939
Elks & O'Brien 1941
New York World ztelegran [sic] On O'Brien 1941
Bogert and O'Brien - Ads undated
Corbett & O'Brien undated
Dockstader Reviews undated
Neil O'Brien in Vaudeville undated
Retirement and After undated
Interviews of Past Seasons O'Brien, Dockstader undated
Cartoons of O'Brien, Dockstader, others undated
Advertising - Minstrelsy and Vaudeville undated
Late Vaudeville Notices undated
Advance Notices - as is undated
O'Brien Poughkeepsie undated
O'Brien at St. Catherine's undated
Elks and O'Brien undated
O'Brien and Knights of Columbus undated
O'Brien and The Knights Of Columbus/Binghamton undated
Mrs. Neil O'Brien undated
Nothing To Do With Anything undated
Overlapping and Unclear undated
Criticisms Before Neil O'Brien's Minstrels - Lew Dockstaders Minstrels undated
Criticism - Neil O'Brien Minstrels undated
Criticism - Neil O'Brien Minstrels undated
Criticism - Neil O'Brien Minstrels undated
Criticism - Neil O'Brien Minstrels undated
Criticism - Neil O'Brien Minstrels undated
Series XIV. Clippings unrelated to O'Brien
Clippings not mentioning O'Brien - Poems etc. undated
Series XV. Photographs
Men in Uniform Photos undated
Blackface Photos undated
Non-blackface Photos undated
Newspaper Photos undated
Advertisements/Caricatures undated
Postcards undated
Other Photos undated
Series XVI. Miscellany
Neil O'Brien Folding Chair, patent 1895 June 11
Miscellaneous List - Minstrelsy's Second Generation Comedians undated
Miscellaneous List - Lots of Words undated
Mohawk Minstrels undated
Auction List undated
Bound Sheet Music undated
Series XVII. Autobiography
Forty Years in Cork--or Eleven Forty Five (315 pages) undated
Press Special undated
Neil O'Brien's Minstrel Experience (pencil copy) undated
Gentlemen be Seated--My Memories of Minstrelsy (300 pages) undated
Series XVIII. Calendars and address Book
Calendars 1901-1908
Calendars 1920-1930
Calendar after 1930
Address Book undated
Series XIX. Letters and personal notes
Handwritten minstrel book made for O'Brien undated
2 Letters to O'Brien 1890s
Letter To O'Brien - Dockstader Minstrels 1905-1906
Letter to O'Brien 1907 January 8
Letter To O'Brien, - Sister Hedwig 1909
Friar's Club Member 1912
Friar's Club To O'Brien 1916
Knights of Columbus 1940
Letter from O'Brien 1942
Moving Picture Correspondence 1942-1943
To O'Brien/ Knights of Columbus after 1944
To O'Brien/ Fred Hager after 1944
Notes to O'Brien 1950
Letter After O'Brien's Death after 1954
Letter After O'Brien's Death after 1954
Letters undated
Letters undated
Letters undated
Knights of Columbus Membership card, Scraps, Envelopes undated
Series XX. Minstrel show objects
3 pairs of bones, 1 brush, 1 collar w/chain, 1 whistle undated
Series XXI. Posters
O'Brien minstrel show posters undated