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 empty sleeve

The empty sleeve

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments. At head of text: Written by a one-armed soldier, of the 147th Pa. Vols. At end of text: Sold by D.S. Bacon, a blind man.

The empty sleeve

The empty sleeve

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments. American eagle with shield above title.

The empty sleeve

The empty sleeve

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments. American eagle with shield above title.

The empty sleeve

The empty sleeve

Brown University

Two poems, possibly meant to be separated, printed side-by-side. Each poem printed in two columns divided by single line within double-line border. At head of each title: Price ten cents. At end of each poem: David Gingry, Jr. Prose accounts of Gingry's military career and injuries precede each poem. This is not poem with the same title generally attributed to George Washington Thomas. Thomas' poem begins: 'Tis but a common story, I shall to you unfold.

The elm tree

The elm tree

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Illustration entitled,"The Whittier elm" on verso.

The elixir vitae

The elixir vitae

Brown University

Broadsheet printed on card stock. On verso lithograph of child with puppies and cat, with ruled advertising in upper right: Vaseline Chesebrough Man'f'g Co.... Advertisement for Vaseline made by Chesebrough Manufacturing Co. Date from internal evidence.

The elixir vitae

The elixir vitae

Brown University

Broadsheet printed on card stock. On verso colored lithograph of obelisk captioned: Egyptian obelisk in Central Park, New York, with ruled advertising within border in upper left beginning: Chesebrough Manf'g. Co.... Advertisement for Vaseline made by Chesebrough Manufacturing Co. Date from internal evidence; Central Park obelisk erected in 1881.

The elixir vitae

The elixir vitae

Brown University

Broadsheet printed on card stock. On verso, colored lithograph of boy and girl picking apples with advertising text: Vaseline Chesebrough Man'f'g Co. Advertisement for Vaseline made by Chesebrough Manufacturing Co. Date from internal evidence.

The eleventh hour

The eleventh hour

Brown University

At end of text: (In commemoration of the signing of the Armistice, November 11th, 1918) ..

The elephant song

The elephant song

Brown University

Has also been printed under the following titles: Van Amburgh's menagerie; The menagerie.

The education of a prince

At head of text: The people of America is the sovereign of America. At end of text: A happy New Year!

The education of a prince

At head of text: The people of America is the sovereign of America. At end of text: A happy New Year!

The Edgar Allen Poe's shrine (oldest house in Richmond)

Printed on heavy paper in postcard format; text on recto in black, on verso in reddish brown. At head of title reproduction of color photograph of buildings with Poe shrine in center. Title from caption. "Beautiful and historical Richmond, Va. series. No. 25. Edgar Allen Poes's shrine"--verso. Suggested publication date from postmark on Brown University copy.

The Edgar Allen Poe's shrine (oldest house in Richmond)

Printed on heavy paper in postcard format; text on recto in black, on verso in reddish brown. At head of title reproduction of color photograph of buildings with Poe shrine in center. Title from caption. "Beautiful and historical Richmond, Va. series. No. 25. Edgar Allen Poes's shrine"--verso. Suggested publication date from postmark on Brown University copy.

The Easter morning: a cantata

Within triple line border with ornamental corners. At head of text: Music composed by Sigismund Neukomm, adapted to an English version and edited by Edward Wiebe.

The Easter morning: a cantata

Within triple line border with ornamental corners. At head of text: Music composed by Sigismund Neukomm, adapted to an English version and edited by Edward Wiebe.

The Easter morning: a cantata

Within triple line border with ornamental corners. At head of text: Music composed by Sigismund Neukomm, adapted to an English version and edited by Edward Wiebe.