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 Fall Dance Concert a night of student choreography

This concert was the first concert devoted to student choreographers since 1971 and intoduced Body & Sole as the umbrella organization for the extra-curricular dance program and the liaision with the theater department. Each choreographer gave extensive contectual/personal program notes and Body & Sole added a program note describing the passion and process of the act of choregraphy. Michelle Bach-Coulibaly was the faculty producer. The student choreographers for this show were: Deborah Friedes, Tisola Logan, Andros Zins-Brown, Lauren Hale, Scott Franco, Alison Mara, Friedman, Lynette Freeman, Jonathan Martin, Courtney Rowe, Audrey McIntyre. This concert was the first concert devoted to student choreographers since 1971 and intoduced Body & Sole as the umbrella organization for the extra-curricular dance program and the liaision with the theater department. Each choreographer gave extensive contectual/personal program notes and Body & Sole added a program note describing the passion and process of the act of choregraphy. Michelle Bach-Coulibaly was the faculty producer. The student choreographers for this show were: Deborah Friedes, Tisola Logan, Andros Zins-Brown, Lauren Hale, Scott Franco, Alison Mara, Friedman, Lynette Freeman, Jonathan Martin, Courtney Rowe, Audrey McIntyre. Ashamu Dance Studio, Lyman Hall The Fall Dance Concert a night of student choreography, Department of Theatre Arts records, OF.1Q.T1, 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 faithful saying: 1 Tim. 1:15-20; 2:1-6

Printed in colors on recto, black on verso. Illustrations, on recto, include Jesus in the manger and on the cross. Sunday school lesson. Text of hymn on recto; on verso, lesson and quiz. In upper right corner on recto: May 24. 8. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The faithful saying: 1 Tim. 1:15-20; 2:1-6

Printed in colors on recto, black on verso. Illustrations, on recto, include Jesus in the manger and on the cross. Sunday school lesson. Text of hymn on recto; on verso, lesson and quiz. In upper right corner on recto: May 24. 8. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The faithful saying: 1 Tim. 1:15-20; 2:1-6

Printed in colors on recto, black on verso. Illustrations, on recto, include Jesus in the manger and on the cross. Sunday school lesson. Text of hymn on recto; on verso, lesson and quiz. In upper right corner on recto: May 24. 8. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The faith of the Christmas tree

by Thornwell Jacobs. French fold, printed on double page. On cover : Christmas, 1954. Off-white paper printed and illustrated in black, deep green, light blue, and red-orange; fore edge untrimmed; printed as a Christmas greeting.

The faith of the Christmas tree

by Thornwell Jacobs. French fold, printed on double page. On cover : Christmas, 1954. Off-white paper printed and illustrated in black, deep green, light blue, and red-orange; fore edge untrimmed; printed as a Christmas greeting.

The faith of the Christmas tree

by Thornwell Jacobs. French fold, printed on double page. On cover : Christmas, 1954. Off-white paper printed and illustrated in black, deep green, light blue, and red-orange; fore edge untrimmed; printed as a Christmas greeting.

The fairy's gift

The fairy's gift

Brown University

Broadsheet advertising card printed in colors and gold within gold border on recto, in pale blue, tan and brown on verso. On recto colored lithograph of fairy and flowers below and at left of text; on verso lithograph captioned: Fairy's gift, of fairy holding package of Sozodont, a liquid dentifrice. Poem in three six-line stanzas. Suggested publication date because Brown University copy acquired with another Sozodont card, Found (HB31326) which contains testimonial dated July 5, 1866.

The fairy crosses

The fairy crosses

Brown University

Charles Hall Davis. "March 23, 1919; Petersburg, Virginia."

The fair maid's song: when all alone

To be sung to the tune: White cockade. Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments; double line beneath title. Printed area: 12.6 x 12.5 cm. Bawdy poem in six stanzas. Not in Checklist Amer. imprints 1830-1839. Solomon Howe, printer, son of Baptist minister and author Solomon Howe (1750-1835), printed with his brother John (1783-1845) in Greenwich and Enfield, Mass. and published some broadsides with his own imprint in the 1830's. The town of Enfield was separated from Greenwich, Mass. and incorporated in 1816. First line: One evening as I walk'd alone.

The Fair ephemeral. Friday, March 29, 1844

Vignette of musical instruments between words of title. Printed in three columns divided by single lines. Apparently not a periodical but published for a school fair, with mock advertisements.

The fair

The fair

Brown University

Printed on blue paper. Illustration of a harp and shamrocks.

The factory girl

The factory girl

Brown University

Printed in two columns. Poem in fourteen numbered stanzas of four lines with two-line chorus. Publication date approximation from internal evidence.

The factor's garland: A strange and wonderful story

Young man ransoms and eventually marries enslaved princess. Young man ransoms and eventually marries enslaved princess. Printed in three columns divided by single lines. Ballad in 57 four-line stanzas. Publication date from ownership inscription on Brown University copy.

The face upon the floor: a poem

by H.A. D'Arcy. Cover title. Poem in 17 four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The F.O.B. call

The F.O.B. call

Brown University

At end of text: ... This beautiful and wonderful poem was composed "for the good of the Order" ..

The Ezekiel chant

The Ezekiel chant

Brown University

Poem. At head of text: Vachel Lindsay. Text within single line border; printed on light green paper. First line: Ezekiel saw the skies unroll. Mounted at top of page is printed engraving dated: Vachel Lindsay 1930.

The extra spud

The extra spud

Brown University

by the nose of a "bottle" Tune: Paddy's wedding. Poetry and prose. Printed in two columns divided by single line.