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 railroad man

The railroad man

Brown University

Printed in colors; text in black. At head of title colored illustrations of railroad man, conductor and guard. Comic valentine with eight-line poem.

The railroad man

The railroad man

Brown University

Printed in colors; text in black. At head of title colored illustrations of railroad man, conductor and guard. Comic valentine with eight-line poem.

The railroad brakeman

The railroad brakeman

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Below title wood-engraving of railroad locomotive; ornamental border at top and bottom on page [1] Caption title. Below illustration on page [1]: This poem is printed for the benefit of Mr. Frank E. Kelley, who lost his leg on B. & L.R.R. while in the faithful discharge of his duties as a brakeman. First line of poem: Dust-grimed features, weather-beaten. Poem in seven eight-line stanzas on brakeman's dangerous job. Suggested range of dates from dealer and from internal evidence.

The railroad brakeman

The railroad brakeman

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Below title wood-engraving of railroad locomotive; ornamental border at top and bottom on page [1] Caption title. Below illustration on page [1]: This poem is printed for the benefit of Mr. Frank E. Kelley, who lost his leg on B. & L.R.R. while in the faithful discharge of his duties as a brakeman. First line of poem: Dust-grimed features, weather-beaten. Poem in seven eight-line stanzas on brakeman's dangerous job. Suggested range of dates from dealer and from internal evidence.

The railroad boy's appeal

Printed on card stock. At end of text: Yours truly, J. Cary. Price--whatever you wish to give. Poem in four eight-line stanzas asks help for crippled boy.

The railroad boy's appeal

Printed on card stock. At end of text: Yours truly, J. Cary. Price--whatever you wish to give. Poem in four eight-line stanzas asks help for crippled boy.

The railroad boy's appeal

Printed in blue on card stock. Within border of type ornaments. At end of poem: Yours truly, J. Cary. Price: whatever you wish to give. Poem in four eight-line stanzas asks help for crippled boy.

The railroad boy's appeal

Printed in blue on card stock. Within border of type ornaments. At end of poem: Yours truly, J. Cary. Price: whatever you wish to give. Poem in four eight-line stanzas asks help for crippled boy.

The ragtime volunteers are off to war

words by Ballard Macdonald ; music by James F. Hanley. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Introduced by: Emma Carus. Advertisement for other music: p. 3. Advertisement for "Long boy" and other music: p. [4] War slogans: p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Emma Carus; drawing of soldiers in parade / Starmer

The ragtime sailor man

The ragtime sailor man

Brown University

words by J. Will Callahan ; music by Max Kortlander. For voice and piano. Caption title. Page 1 is unnumbered. Advertisement for "Smiles": p. [4] Cover illustration: sailors dancing on ship / Standard Photo. Eng. Co.

The rag-time strut

The rag-time strut

Brown University

From Songs of the people. At end of text: ... Baltimore, Maryland.

The question on the white cliff

Poetry; title from first line. Advertising flyer printed on white paper in black. Poem printed in mirror image. At top of page: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. Includes statement,"the working notebooks of Anne-Marie Albiach & Claude Royet-Journoud, will also include the work of other writers & artists" 12/27 1072. At end of poem: Rosmarie Waldrop.

The quest

The quest

Brown University

Euna Russell. Printed on heavy textured white paper. At head of title vignette of domed building in landscape. Poetry. Suggested publication date from date of donation by author of Brown University copy.

The quest

The quest

Brown University

Poem. At end of text: Judith McCombs. Illustration by Ann Mikolowski. At foot of sheet: Free. The Red Hanrahan Press printed in Detroit on August 2, 1971. Printed and illustrated in green on beige card stock. First line: A basilisk lay sleeping on its nest.

The Purple Heart

The Purple Heart

Brown University

Printed on blue paper in one and two columns. Mentions medal awarded to Michael Rickard. Type-signed at end: William Hobart Royce.

The Pullman strike songster

Printed in six columns divided by single lines. Words of 32 songs with advertisements for songsters. First song The Pullman strike, by W. Wildwave.

The public is respectfully informed that Mr. Holman, of the Theatres Royal, Covent Garden and Dublin is engaged for a...

Printed in one and two columns divided by single line. Printed area measures: 18.0 x 12.8 cm. Title from first lines. Title continues: And will make his first appearance in America on Monday next, in the character of Hamlet. Playbill for Sept. 18, 1812 performance of Hamlet and farce My grandmother; theater not named. Name of theater, also called Park Theatre, from dealer.

The Providence Garden Blues, Rites and Reason Theatre

Rites and Reason's first research-to-performance production. Several performers wearing various forms of face makeup including white face and black face. Rites and Reason's first research-to-performance production. Several performers wearing various forms of face makeup including white face and black face. The Providence Garden Blues, Rites and Reason Theatre, University Archives Subject Photographs, 1-Q, Brown University Library Digital object made available by: Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)

The Providence Garden Blues, Rites and Reason Theatre

Rites and Reason's first research-to-performance production. Actors in what appears to be computers over their heads, one holding a globe. Rites and Reason's first research-to-performance production. Actors in what appears to be computers over their heads, one holding a globe. The Providence Garden Blues, Rites and Reason Theatre, University Archives Subject Photographs, 1-Q, Brown University Library Digital object made available by: Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)

The Providence Garden Blues, Rites and Reason Theatre

Rites and Reason's first research-to-performance production. Six actors posed on stage with various forms of face makeup including one actor in black face. Rites and Reason's first research-to-performance production. Six actors posed on stage with various forms of face makeup including one actor in black face. The Providence Garden Blues, Rites and Reason Theatre, University Archives Subject Photographs, 1-Q, Brown University Library Digital object made available by: Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)

The Prospect Brewing Co

The Prospect Brewing Co

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Broadsheet printed on card stock. On recto colored picture of girl holding telephone earpiece to child's face; on verso poem entitled: Beer--the national drink. Publication date suggested from form of telephone and children's dress.

The proposal

The proposal

Brown University

William J. Rice. Broadsheet printed on white paper. Poetry. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.