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 Satterlee Boys to Uncle Sam

Humorous complaint about bad diet for soldiers in hospital caused by cheating contractors. Humorous complaint about bad diet for soldiers in hospital caused by cheating contractors. By Serg't Don Fitz Squizzle, author of "The wonderful revolving squirt gun," &c. Printed in one and two columns divided by single line. Poem in 17 four-line stanzas. Appears to be Civil War-related.

The Sandy River Line

The Sandy River Line

Brown University

Printed on heavy glossy pale green card stock. Poem in three eight-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of poem: Charles G. Wilson, March, 1927. In lower margin: Compliments of The Herbert, Kingfield, Maine.

The Sandy River Line

The Sandy River Line

Brown University

Printed on heavy glossy pale green card stock. Poem in three eight-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of poem: Charles G. Wilson, March, 1927. In lower margin: Compliments of The Herbert, Kingfield, Maine.

The Sandy River Line

The Sandy River Line

Brown University

Printed on heavy glossy pale green card stock. Poem in three eight-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of poem: Charles G. Wilson, March, 1927. In lower margin: Compliments of The Herbert, Kingfield, Maine.

The sanctity of promise

The sanctity of promise

Brown University

Poetry. Two sonnets printed on card stock within mourning border. Author's initials not full name printed on item. At end of first poem: Brooklyn, N.Y., Dec. 29, 1914; at end of second: Brooklyn, N.Y., Jan. 1, 1915. Author's name from ms. signature on Brown University copy.

The San Francisco weather report: poem

by Richard Brautigan. Printed on tan paper. Title within double lines. At end of text below single line: Poem by Richard Brautigan / Printed by G. Mackintosh / Free. First line: Gee, you're so beautiful that it's starting to rain.

The same old sweetheart

The same old sweetheart

Brown University

Text of song in four eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Years may come and years may go.

The salutation of the dawn

Printed on heavy yellow paper. Poem in 15 lines. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and the acquisition date of Brown University copy.

The salutation

The salutation

Brown University

Printed on colored paper. Within single line border with corner ornaments. At end of text: From the Sanskrit.

The saloon bar

The saloon bar

Brown University

Poetry. Printed on card stock. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The Salisbury Beach gathering

At end of text: The verses on this sheet were composed impromptu, in twelve minutes, by Byron DeWolfe, of Nashua, N.H. First line: Dear summer with thy charms adieu.

The safe side

The safe side

Brown University

By Mrs. M.A. Holt. At head of title cut of two boys shoveling snow. Caption title. At head of title four-line poem beginning: The first little drop of strong drink that is taken. In upper right corner of page [1]: No. 47. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The sacred sycamore

The sacred sycamore

Brown University

Poem in two eight-line stanzas. At end of text: Dedicated to Louise Antoinnette Leseure of America by William Kimberley Palmer. Chicopee, Massachusetts U.S.A. April, 1933 A.D.

The Sabbath day

The Sabbath day

Brown University

Within curvilinear single-line border. At head of text: "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy." Poem in four numbered four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.