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 Grand Army button

The Grand Army button

Brown University

Tune: The old oaken bucket. Date suggested because Grand Army of the Republic had highest membership in 1890 and was very active in that decade; poem speaks of Civil War as in the past but implies that many veterans are living.

The Grand Army button

The Grand Army button

Brown University

Tune: The old oaken bucket. Date suggested because Grand Army of the Republic had highest membership in 1890 and was very active in that decade; poem speaks of Civil War as in the past but implies that many veterans are living.

The grain is unlocked: The grain unravels

Poem. Printed in black on green paper; line of type ornaments between poem and colophon. At end of text: D.J. Waldie. Colophon with initial block at end: This poem was printed by Don Waldie & Gary Young at the Greenhouse Review Press, March 19, 1977. First line: Change is in the way, The wedge is put.

The Gospel trumpet

The Gospel trumpet

Brown University

Page [1] and [4] blank. Poetry printed within ornamental border (Reilly 583, 651). Date and place supplied; border used by Peter Timothy of Charleston.

The Gospel rule

The Gospel rule

Brown University

Printed on yellow silk within border of type ornaments. At end of text below lower border: Gould & Bart, Printers, Littlestown, Pa. Poem in five eight-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The gospel of beauty: being the new "creed of a beggar"

by that vain and foolish mendicant Nicholas Vachel Lindsay .. Corners rounded. Text in two paragraphs set in capitals. Paragraph No. 1 headed: Prologue, paragraph 2 headed: The new localism. C.K. Byrd Check list No. 20 in Indiana University Bookman, 5, December, 1960.

The Gospel light: an ode

In two stanzas. "Tune, 'Ode on Science'"--Below title. Place of publication and range of publication dates from information in Providence directory, 1832 and 1834 issues, and in Brown & Brown. Directory of printing in R.I. to 1865 (address given in the 1832 directory as 9 Market-square, Providence) Printed area measures 15.4 x 10.5 cm. Printed within border of type ornaments. First line: O'er Judah's land a light appears.

The Gospel invitation

The Gospel invitation

Brown University

At head of text, two lines in italics in different meter. Poem in 28 lines.

The Gospel chain

The Gospel chain

Brown University

By John Mc'Kenney, Saco, Me. Broadsheet, containing chiefly religious poems and miscellanea. On p. [2] below Epitaph: Printed for the glory of God and the good of the people. January 1st, 1847. A New Year's present to friends in Derry. S.B. ... Prayer[s?] desired. Sylvanus Brown, with his friends and family, desire the pra[yers? of] all the godly for him ... At end, copy of certificate of ordination of Sylvanus Brown issued in Salisbury, Mass., on Dec. 7, 1836, with printed signatures: Luther Baker, J.V. Himes (since turned Millerite), Elijah Shaw, Mark Fernald.