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.
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Items in this collection

The lesson of the leaves

Cover title. At head of title reproduction of photograph of house and barn; drawing of woman's head on page [2], floral decorations on pages [3] and [4] Prospectus for anthology entitled Flowers by the wayside. Publication date from publication date of book.

The lesson ; Art ; Hyacinthus ; Nature

Poetry. Printed in black, red and blue on cream paper. Printed in two columns within border of plant stems with blossoms at top; drawing of a bee at top center between blossoms. At end of text: Kent State Arts Festival 74. Joel Oppenheimer.

The legend of the Spanish moss

Printed in colors on heavy white paper in postcard format; text on verso in blue. At left of text colored illustration of trees hung with Spanish moss. Poem in five six-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The legend of St. Christopher

Within double-line border on page [1] only. Cover title. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The legend of Cheese Rock: for the Forest Festival, June 17, 1882

Poem, in 9 verses. Ascribed to Elizur Wright; cf. version in his: Elizur Wright's appeals for the Middlesex Fells and the forests. [Medford], 1893, p. 67-68. Printed area: 24.2 x 13.6 cm. Printed within border of type ornaments. First line: In sixteen hundred thirty-one.

The legend

The legend

Brown University

Within ornamental border Contains advertising.

The legend

The legend

Brown University

Within ornamental border. Contains advertising.

The legatee

The legatee

Brown University

Printed in two columns. Text of campaign song or poem in six stanzas of varying length. Publication date suggested because poet says Bryan is running against Taft who has Roosevelt's support, which occurred in 1908.

The leaves

The leaves

Brown University

Within decorative border. Flyer from publisher advertising Loewinson's book with same title.

The least of Christmas carols

French fold printed on double page. Sewn in hand-made paper wrppers with end papers. Illuminated initials and hand-colored illustrations. "Privately printed for Miss Jewett at Valhall Studio...by Hugh & Margaret Eaton, Brooklyn, New York."

The Learned Ladies (Molière), Rites and Reason Theatre

A white man in period costume and in a long blonde wig. A white man in period costume and in a long blonde wig. The Learned Ladies (Molière), 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 lay of the lost traveler

Poetry. At head of text: The following lines are supposed to have been written for the "Burlington Clipper," by E.J.P. Poem in four thirteen-line stanzas about waiting for a train at Essex Junction. Suggested range of dates from internal evidence.

The lay of the lone fish ball

At end of text: This is a truthful narration of what happened to a Professor of Mathematicks in those simple ante-Bellum days..... "This first separate edition is dedicated to William Coolidge Lane ..."

The lay of the lone fish ball

At end of text: This is a truthful narration of what happened to a Professor of Mathematicks in those simple ante-Bellum days..... "This first separate edition is dedicated to William Coolidge Lane ..."

The lay of the lone fish ball

At end of text: This is a truthful narration of what happened to a Professor of Mathematicks in those simple ante-Bellum days..... "This first separate edition is dedicated to William Coolidge Lane ..."

The lay of the lone fish ball

At end of text: This is a truthful narration of what happened to a Professor of Mathematicks in those simple ante-Bellum days..... "This first separate edition is dedicated to William Coolidge Lane ..."

The lay of the last rebel

Poem in five stanzas lamenting defeat of Confederacy. To be sung to the tune: Joe Bowers. Date suggested by appearance of item and because it must have been written after the end of the Civil War.

The lawyer's promotion: To an excellent new tune.

Printed in three columns, divided by line of various type ornaments Wood-engraving of lawyer at left of title. Printed area measures: 30.1 x 18.6 cm. At end of text below single line: Sold at the Bible and Heart in Cornhill, Boston This edition not in Ford or Evans. The Bible and Heart (Boston) was the sign of Thomas (1732-1797) and John Fleet from 1780 to 1797 of John and Thomas (1768-1827) Fleet from 1797 to 1803 and of Thomas Fleet (1768-1827) from 1803 Hay Broadsds Harris copy: Edges trimmed; mutilation along edges. Pencilled notation in upper right corner: F3224?

The lawyer outwitted

The lawyer outwitted

Brown University

Poetry in 88 lines printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments; below columns line of same type ornaments divides advertising and text of poem. Trumbull is listed as printer in the Providence Directory from 1824 to 1836.

The laws

The laws

Brown University

At end of text: Season's Greetings, 1958; John, Doris, Johnny, Evan and Margaret Holmes. Border of type ornaments at top and bottom. White paper printed in black and orange-red; printed as a holiday greeting.

The Lawrence tragedy! or, Fallen mill

Recounts collapse of mill followed by fire. Recounts collapse of mill followed by fire. By Ebenezer Mann. To be sung to the tune: The Lexington miller. Printed in two columns divided by single line within ornamental border. Text of song in 23 four-line stanzas.

The Lawrence tragedy! or, Fallen mill

Recounts collapse of mill followed by fire. Recounts collapse of mill followed by fire. By Ebenezer Mann. To be sung to the tune: The Lexington miller. Printed in two columns divided by single line within ornamental border. Text of song in 23 four-line stanzas.

The Laura Keene schottisch

As performed at Laura Keene's Varieties. Figure 3 1/2 in five pointed star. At head of title: Dedicated to Miss Laura Keene. Portrait and signature of Laura Keene on cover: lith of Sarony & Co., New York.