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 four beliefs

The four beliefs

Brown University

Wood engraving by J.J. Lankes on cover with autograph presentation note beneath: Robert Frost to Earle Bernheimer 1944. Page [2] blank. Crane D6 (note) First line: One is the self-belief, which is a knowledge.

The four beliefs

The four beliefs

Brown University

Wood engraving by J.J. Lankes on cover with autograph presentation note beneath: Robert Frost to Earle Bernheimer 1944. Page [2] blank. Crane D6 (note) First line: One is the self-belief, which is a knowledge.

The fountain

The fountain

Brown University

Within double line border with corner ornaments.

The Fossil's doxology

The Fossil's doxology

Brown University

Poem describes dinner meeting of old friends. Broadsheet printed on heavy paper, with poem on recto and reproduction of photograph of fossil-bearing rock on verso At end of poem: Rauscher's, Washington City, November twenty-first Poem in three eight-line stanzas Author's name not printed on item Author's name from ms. signature on Brown University copy Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence Hay Broadsds Harris copy: Ms. signature at end of poem "Henry L. Bryan 'Argyle.'"

The form falls in on itself

Title from first line. Printed from a wood block by Wang Hui-Ming Type-signed at end: David Ignatow. Artist's name from dealer and from signature on Brown University copy Hay Broadsds Harris copy: Not on rag paper (a variant issue on rag paper measuring 33 x 25 cm. is known); author and artist autographed in pencil and dated "1971.

The footprints

The footprints

Brown University

Denise Levertov. Broadsheet. Announces poetry reading May 3, 1971. On verso information about poet and festival and paragraph by Levertov entitled: For the Worcester poetry listeners.

The following lines were occasioned by the death of Mr. Alvin Ingols, of Hanover, N.H.: who was drowned at Haverhill,...

By Stephen Benton, Jr. Printed in two columns divided by double lines. Printed area measures: 23.1 x 20.2 cm. Poem in 22 four-line stanzas. Place of publication suggested because poem refers to Haverhill as "here"; suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence, especially typeface. Not in Evans, Bristol or Checklist Amer. imprints.