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 sinking of the Maine

Within border of type ornaments. Portrait of the author. Below title "Composed and written during the indecision of the U.S. Government."

The sink

The sink

Brown University

Michael Basinski. Cover title. Poetry.

The single head of wheat

Printed on gray paper. Poem in 27 four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The single head of wheat

Printed on yellow paper. At head of text: "She hath done what she could."--Mark xiv.8. Poem in 27 four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and acquisition date of Brown University copy.

The silver wedding

The silver wedding

Brown University

Printed in red on silver. Within red line border. "Lines in Commemoration of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Marriage of Hubbard E. Hall and Susan A. Slater." At end of text: J.J.A.

The silver moon

The silver moon

Brown University

Within ornamental border. At left of text, for full height of text, wood-engraving of young man holding cane, signed: Emmons sc. At end of text within border: I.H. Welton, Publisher, No. 4 Walnut Street, Lowell, Mass. Text of song in five four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Roll on, silver moon, guide the traveler his way. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The silver key, or a fancy to truth and a warning to youth

Printed in three columns. Woodcut of lion at head of text. At head of text: Shewing the benefit of money, and the contempt of the poor, under the term of a silver key. At end of text: Printed and sold by Nathaniel Coverly, Jun. corner of Theatre-Alley, Milk-Street, Boston, Sept. 2d, 1811. First line: The silver key, doth bear the sway.

The silent voice

The silent voice

Brown University

Poem in four four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates between date of establishment of press and acquisition date of Brown University copy.

The silent toast

The silent toast

Brown University

Broadsheet printed on heavy paper. Poem in seven four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of poem: Frederick George Scott, 1st Canadian Division. Vimy Ridge, April 1917. Colophon at end on verso below rule: Printed in Gt. Britain by T. & A. Constable, King's Printers, Edinburgh, 1917.

The silent prayer: a community song

words by Mabelle Blake Wix ; music by Christian M. Praetorius. For voice and piano. Cover title. "Inspired by a message from Bishop Lawrence"--Caption.

The silence motif

The silence motif

Brown University

David McKain. Page [2] blank. Printed on heavy mustard-colored paper; title within ornamental border. Cover title. Poem.

The silence motif

The silence motif

Brown University

David McKain. Page [2] blank. Printed on heavy mustard-colored paper; title within ornamental border. Cover title. Poem.

The signs of the times!

The signs of the times!

Brown University

Poem describing portents in sky of imminent end of world. Poem describing portents in sky of imminent end of world. by Mary Cochran. Printed in two columns divided by double lines within border of type ornaments. Below title illustration of eagle holding scroll inscribed "Liberty" and standing on cannon above crossed flags, drum and portrait of Washington. At end of text below rule within lower border: Hackstaff, Printer, Rochester, N.Y. Suggested publication date from date of vision at beginning of poem.

The sight of Jupiter

The sight of Jupiter

Brown University

Tan paper printed in burnt sienna. Poem. "This poem was set & printed by the poet at The Toothpaste Press for The Four Zoas Press." Author's name and publication date from author's ms. inscription on Brown University copy.

The siege of Suffolk, Va

By H. W. Green, 130th N.Y. Vols. Within border of type ornaments. Poem in twenty four-line stanzas.

The sideshow

The sideshow

Brown University

At head of title: Copy of a review of the book "The Merry Out-of-doors" by Lila Hurley

The shores of Harvard

The shores of Harvard

Brown University

Caption title. Poetry in five two-line stanzas printed in black on off-white paper. Type signed at end of poem: M.A. DeWolfe Howe. At end of text: Melody from "Jupiter," No. IV of "The Planets," by Gustav Holst. Possible range of dates suggested by internal evidence.

The shooting of our presidents

"Dedicated to Chloe E. Cook"--Cover Words and music by Seth A. Cook; arranged by F.S. Watson. Cover illustration of three assassinated presidents, Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, and William McKinley For voice and piano