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

Winter twilight

Winter twilight

Brown University

Anne Porter. Illustrated in blue and white. In postcard format. "From 'Living things', published by Zoland Books, an imprint of Steerforth Press. On p. [2]: "Season's Greetings from the Academy of American Poets"

Winter song

Winter song

Brown University

Pages [2]-[3] blank. Printed on cream paper. On page [4] illustration of seated man. On page [1] poem. "Cock of the morning by Harvey Feinberg (drawings by Nancy Steege) ... from The Crossing Press." Suggested publication date from publication date of book.

Winter solstice

Winter solstice

Brown University

Cream paper printed in black and orange-red within top and bottom borders of type ornaments. Poem in three stanzas of varying length. At end of poem: Season's greetings, 1956. John, Doris, Johnny, Evan, and Margaret Holmes.

Winter constellations

Winter constellations

Brown University

Richard Blessing. Broadsheet printed in blue on recto and in black on verso on white paper. On recto poem; on verso information about author. Imprint information from publisher; suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.

Winter ascending

Winter ascending

Brown University

Dorothy Livesay. Printed on cream paper; white label with title and author within border of type ornaments pasted on page [1] Cover title. Poem in two numbered sections.

Windowsills

Windowsills

Brown University

Bert Meyers ; drawings by Linda Anderson Miller. SAnnouncement of the publication of Windowsills by Bert Meyers

Windham County wolves

Windham County wolves

Brown University

Miss Ellen D. Larned. Poetry. Suggested publication date from mention in poem of "eighteen hundred seventy-eight" as present date.

Windham County wolves

Windham County wolves

Brown University

Miss Ellen D. Larned. Poetry. Suggested publication date from mention in poem of "eighteen hundred seventy-eight" as present date.

Wind tugs leaves away

Wind tugs leaves away

Brown University

Advertising for Kim Robert Stafford's "Gypsy's history of the world" with background information on the advertised edition. Advertising for Kim Robert Stafford's "Gypsy's history of the world" with background information on the advertised edition. Broadsheet. Poetry and prose. Title from first line. "November 1976." Printed in black on grey paper. On recto four-line poem from book's title page of chapter 1 "The trail behind;" above line illustration of pictograph from the beginning of chapter 2. Text on verso begins: Copper Canyon Press is pleased to announce publication of "A gypsy's history of the world ...". Printed vertically in right margin on verso: Copper Canyon Press - Box 271 - Port Townsend, WA, 98368.

Wims' hymn

Wims' hymn

Brown University

At head of text typescript addition: "There won't be any Kaiser any more."

Wilton Lackaye in The law and the man: founded on Victor Hugo's celebrated novel Les misérables

Printed in colors on heavy paper in postcard format; text in red in right margin on first two cards, in lower margin on third. At left or above title reproduction of tinted photograph of different scene on stage or motion picture set, man pointing gun at man holding stick and watched by woman and boy on first, trial scene with man in dock, two soldiers, judge, two lawyers and four other men on second, and two soldiers, seven other adults and girl on third. Title from caption, same on each card. Below or at right of title on each postcard: Direction Wm. A. Brady. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Wilton Lackaye in The law and the man: founded on Victor Hugo's celebrated novel Les misérables

Printed in colors on heavy paper in postcard format; text in red in right margin on first two cards, in lower margin on third. At left or above title reproduction of tinted photograph of different scene on stage or motion picture set, man pointing gun at man holding stick and watched by woman and boy on first, trial scene with man in dock, two soldiers, judge, two lawyers and four other men on second, and two soldiers, seven other adults and girl on third. Title from caption, same on each card. Below or at right of title on each postcard: Direction Wm. A. Brady. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Wilton Lackaye in The law and the man: founded on Victor Hugo's celebrated novel Les misérables

Printed in colors on heavy paper in postcard format; text in red in right margin on first two cards, in lower margin on third. At left or above title reproduction of tinted photograph of different scene on stage or motion picture set, man pointing gun at man holding stick and watched by woman and boy on first, trial scene with man in dock, two soldiers, judge, two lawyers and four other men on second, and two soldiers, seven other adults and girl on third. Title from caption, same on each card. Below or at right of title on each postcard: Direction Wm. A. Brady. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Williams and Blondie Robinson (J.P. Foley, photograph 3)

Full-length images of Blondie Robinson, and Williams, African American vaudeville performers (male): front facing; with (what appears to be) Williams taking Robinson's pulse, in matching uniforms (suits of unknown type, with hats, ties, and oversized shoes); with long cloth hanging from Robinson's back pants pocket); New York, N.Y.; circa 1915-1925. Full-length images of Blondie Robinson, and Williams, African American vaudeville performers (male): front facing; with (what appears to be) Williams taking Robinson's pulse, in matching uniforms (suits of unknown type, with hats, ties, and oversized shoes); with long cloth hanging from Robinson's back pants pocket); New York, N.Y.; circa 1915-1925. 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/)

William Riley: and, the excellent song called Captain Mulligan

Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. Printed area measures: 24.6 x 17.4 cm. At end of text: Printed and sold at No. 25, High Street Providence, where may be obtained 200 other kinds of songs and ballads. Henry Trumbull used this address from 1824 to 1836.

William Riley: and, the excellent song called Captain Mulligan

Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. Printed area measures: 24.6 x 17.4 cm. At end of text: Printed and sold at No. 25, High Street Providence, where may be obtained 200 other kinds of songs and ballads. Henry Trumbull used this address from 1824 to 1836.

William Riley: and, the excellent song called Captain Mulligan

Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. Printed area measures: 24.6 x 17.4 cm. At end of text: Printed and sold at No. 25, High Street Providence, where may be obtained 200 other kinds of songs and ballads. Henry Trumbull used this address from 1824 to 1836.

William Riley: and, the excellent song called Captain Mulligan

Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. Printed area measures: 24.6 x 17.4 cm. At end of text: Printed and sold at No. 25, High Street Providence, where may be obtained 200 other kinds of songs and ballads. Henry Trumbull used this address from 1824 to 1836.

William Riley: and, Hard fortune

Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. At end of text: Printed and sold at the bookstore No. 25 High Street, Providence, where are constantly kept for sale 150 other kinds of songs and ballads by the hundred, dozen or single. Henry Trumbull was at above address from 1826 to 1836.

William Riley: and, Hard fortune

Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. At end of text: Printed and sold at the bookstore No. 25 High Street, Providence, where are constantly kept for sale 150 other kinds of songs and ballads by the hundred, dozen or single. Henry Trumbull was at above address from 1826 to 1836.