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 Duster family

The Duster family

Brown University

Each of the seven broadsides with same first line: each an advertising brochure for different household furnishings, illustrated according to the contents by Ralph Ellison Reid.

The Duster family

The Duster family

Brown University

Each of the seven broadsides with same first line: each an advertising brochure for different household furnishings, illustrated according to the contents by Ralph Ellison Reid.

The Duster family

The Duster family

Brown University

Each of the seven broadsides with same first line: each an advertising brochure for different household furnishings, illustrated according to the contents by Ralph Ellison Reid.

The Duster family

The Duster family

Brown University

Each of the seven broadsides with same first line: each an advertising brochure for different household furnishings, illustrated according to the contents by Ralph Ellison Reid.

The Duster family

The Duster family

Brown University

Each of the seven broadsides with same first line: each an advertising brochure for different household furnishings, illustrated according to the contents by Ralph Ellison Reid.

The Duster family

The Duster family

Brown University

Each of the seven broadsides with same first line: each an advertising brochure for different household furnishings, illustrated according to the contents by Ralph Ellison Reid.

The Duke and His Mistress: Edward Kennedy Ellington in music and dance

This concert was a collaboration between Dance Extension, directed by Julie Adams Strandberg, and the Brown Jazz Band, directed by Matthew McGarrell, in celebration of Duke Ellington's 100th birthday. It included dances, vocal numbers, and instrumentals. The show toured to alumni clubs in London, New York City, and Boston, and was repeated for Parents Weekend (name later changed to Family Weekend) in October of 1991. This concert launched future collaborations with the music department that became features of the Parents Weekend dance concerts. In addition to this collaboration with the jazz band, dancers collaborated with The Brown University Chorus, directed by L. Frederick Jodry, and the Brown University Orchestra, directed by Paul Phillips. This concert was a collaboration between Dance Extension, directed by Julie Adams Strandberg, and the Brown Jazz Band, directed by Matthew McGarrell, in celebration of Duke Ellington's 100th birthday. It included dances, vocal numbers, and instrumentals. The show toured to alumni clubs in London, New York City, and Boston, and was repeated for Parents Weekend (name later changed to Family Weekend) in October of 1991. This concert launched future collaborations with the music department that became features of the Parents Weekend dance concerts. In addition to this collaboration with the jazz band, dancers collaborated with The Brown University Chorus, directed by L. Frederick Jodry, and the Brown University Orchestra, directed by Paul Phillips. Alumnae Hall The Duke and His Mistress: Edward Kennedy Ellington in music and dance, 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 Duke and His Mistress: Edward Kennedy Ellington in music and dance

This concert was a collaboration between Dance Extension, directed by Julie A. Strandberg and the Brown Jazz Band, directed by Matthew McGarrell in celebration of Duke Ellington's 100th birthday. It included dances, vocal numbers, and instrumentals. The show premiered at Brown's Alumnae Hall in March and toured to alumni clubs in London, New York City, and Boston, MA. It was reprised for this Parents' Week-End Concert (name later changed to Family Week-End). Collaborations with the music department were features of the Brown dance Parents' Week-End dance concerts. In addition to this collaboration with the jazz band, dancers collaborated with The Brown University Chorus, directed by L. Frederick Jodry and the Brown University Orchestra directed by Paul Phillips. This concert was a collaboration between Dance Extension, directed by Julie A. Strandberg and the Brown Jazz Band, directed by Matthew McGarrell in celebration of Duke Ellington's 100th birthday. It included dances, vocal numbers, and instrumentals. The show premiered at Brown's Alumnae Hall in March and toured to alumni clubs in London, New York City, and Boston, MA. It was reprised for this Parents' Week-End Concert (name later changed to Family Week-End). Collaborations with the music department were features of the Brown dance Parents' Week-End dance concerts. In addition to this collaboration with the jazz band, dancers collaborated with The Brown University Chorus, directed by L. Frederick Jodry and the Brown University Orchestra directed by Paul Phillips. Ashamu Dance Studio, Lyman Hall The Duke and His Mistress: Edward Kennedy Ellington in music and dance, 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 duck

The duck

Brown University

Processed copy; printed on yellow; each poem type-signed at end Between poems: Free poems among friends "Free poems among friends" had its beginnings in San Francisco in the Spring of 1965. By September of that year publication was continued until 1967 by the Detroit Artist's Workshop, later Detroit Artists' Workshop Press (see "Free poems among friends, Vol. 1, p.[3]")

The drunkard's story

The drunkard's story

Brown University

Poetry. Caption title. At head of title on page 1: No. 65. At end of text on page 4, within rules: American Tract Society, 28 Cornhill, Boston. The American Tract Society published at 28 Cornhill, Boston, from 1841 to 1868. First line: In a street of a great city, leading toward the railway station.

The drunkard's song

The drunkard's song

Brown University

By John Collins. Poetry. Printed in three columns divided by single lines within border of type ornaments. In center column engravings of drunken man and of woman and child. Publication date must be after Hood's Song of the shirt, which it imitates; journal was known as Phrenological journal starting in 1863. At head of title: From S. R. Wells' Phrenological Journal, New York. First line: With eyelids tearful and red. Originally published: Phrenological journal and life illustrated.

The drunkard

The drunkard

Brown University

Within triple line border. First line: Ho! Ye that throng so madly.

The drummer's protest

The drummer's protest

Brown University

Broadsheet printed on heavy glossy pale gray paper. One poem on recto, the other on verso. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The Drift-wind: a tramp magazine issued for the love of literature

Printed on birch bark; at head of title vignette of sailing ship above double rule "February, 1927. Walter J. Coates, Edutor & Printer. North Montpelier, Vt." Includes Latin motto and quotation from Benjain Franklin beginning: 'Tis a shame that your family is an honor to you! and type-signed: Poor Richard

The dreamer

The dreamer

Brown University

Caption title Off-white paper printed in deep blue; printed as a Christmas greeting

The dreamer

The dreamer

Brown University

Caption title Off-white paper printed in deep blue; printed as a Christmas greeting

The dream of soldier boy: ballad

lyric by Alfred Dubin ; music by James V. Monaco. For voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisements for other songs: p. 2-3. Advertisement for "I'm longing always dear, for you": p. [4] Cover illustration: photograph of Edward Earle portraying soldier with his family.

The downfall of Burnside

by Wm. J. Shelton. To be sung to the tune: The rose tree. Within double line border printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line. At head of text wood-engraving of general on porch using spyglass whie rider dashes off, captioned: Lose no time, sir! At end of text: Johnson & Schaffter, Printers, 61 Market-St., Lynchburg, Va.

The Douglass Street Journal. Vol. XXX, No. 1

Printed in three columns divided by single lines. Cut of bust of bearded man surrounded by title. Contains 11 poems. At head of text of first column. The Douglass Str. Journal will be published on the first of every occasion by R.P. Leonard the celebrated repairer of clocks.