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

Woman

Woman

Brown University

Text within scroll with colored floral design at head.

Woman

Woman

Brown University

Within curvilinear border with ornamental corners.

Within each heart there lies apart

Eugene Field. Text printed in blue on recto, black on verso on glossy card stock in postcard format. Title from first line of poem. Head-and-shoulder full-color portrait of Field at right of text and bunch of daisiies below, signed: Cobb Shinn. Untitled poem in four lines.

With you

With you

Brown University

No. 171 of untitled series.

With the season's greetings

Page [4] blank. Printed in red and black on heavy paper; rubricated initial in poem. On page [2] illustration of cityscape with tower signed: Robert Eskridge. Cover title. Poem in three four-line stanzas. At end of poem: This from Harriet Monroe in her new abode at the I.W.A. Club behind the old Water Tower 820 Tower Court, Chicago. Publication date from date of Monroe's letter accompanying Brown University copy.

With the rose: (I send this heart of mine)

words by Ballard Macdonald ; music by Nat Osborne. For voice and piano. Caption title. From musical: Atta boy, produced by the soldier boys of Q.M.C. Camp Meigs, Washington, D.C. Advertisement for other songs: p. 3-[4] Cover illustration: two women with soldier / Barbelle.

With the field-lark

With the field-lark

Brown University

Page [4] blank. With red single line borders with ornamental rubricated initial blocks. On page [1] below line: Supplement to Impressions Quarterly, June, 1902.

With pride, appreciation and bravo: we salute our home in Colorado

French fold; printed on double page. Printed in red and green. On page [1] reproduction in green of aerial photograph of building and grounds captioned: Airplane view of Union Printers Home. Title from first lines on page [1] Includes Christmas menu and list of members of the board of trustees, superintendent and matron. Place of publication from printers' union label on page [4] Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

With husky-haughty lips, o sea!

Proof for Harper's monthly. v. 68: 607, March 1884. Proof for Harper's monthly. v. 68: 607, March 1884. At end of text AN.

With a sober gladness the old year takes up

Longfellow. Printed in colors on heavy white paper in postcard format; text on verso in green. Embossed illustration of corn, grain, autumn leave and landscape. Title from first line. Two lines of poetry. "Thanksgiving greeting." Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

With a sober gladness the old year takes up

Longfellow. Printed in colors on heavy white paper in postcard format; text on verso in green. Embossed illustration of corn, grain, autumn leave and landscape. Title from first line. Two lines of poetry. "Thanksgiving greeting." Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Wishing you a happy New Year!

Poem. Type-signed at end: Napoleon Hoagland, New Year 1893. Olympia Wash. On verso, between rules and ornaments: "Every wish is like a prayer with God."

Wir ziehn nach dem verheiss'nen Land

Printed in black and brown on heavy paper. Within brown ornamental border. At head of title cut of four children. Title from first line. Poem in four four-line stanzas. At end of text: No. 50. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Wir ziehn nach dem verheiss'nen Land

Printed in black and brown on heavy paper. Within brown ornamental border. At head of title cut of four children. Title from first line. Poem in four four-line stanzas. At end of text: No. 50. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Wir ziehn nach dem verheiss'nen Land

Printed in black and brown on heavy paper. Within brown ornamental border. At head of title cut of four children. Title from first line. Poem in four four-line stanzas. At end of text: No. 50. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Winter: the season & the remedy

Printed in red on heavy glossy white paper within single-line border. Poem in one stanza of six lines and one of four. Type-signed at end of poem: Philip "That Rascal" Freneau, poet of the American Revolution. At end of text: Margot & Richard Archer. Christmas: MCMLXXV.