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 call

The call

Brown University

Tune: Irish tune from County Derry. Within single line border. At head of text: Dedicated to the Thursday Morning Music Club, in commemoration of its 15th anniversary, March 1918.

The call

The call

Brown University

At end of text: M.L.P. (Mrs. Samuel Poor)

The Calender Street calamity

by James Jowett, of Providence. Pages [2] and [3] blank. Within double-line border on pages [1] and [4] Vignette of bird and foliage at head of text on page [1] Title and first part of poem, in 28 lines, on page [4] and second part, in three eight-line stanzas, on page [1] Second part to be sung to the tune: The sailor's grave. First line of second part: The help in the shop did there appear. The Calender Street fire in Providence occurred Nov. 22, 1882--King's pocket book of Providence, 1882, p. 17.

The Cadet's challenge

The Cadet's challenge

Brown University

Poetry and prose. Printed in blue and red. Contains beside the poem, the Cadets' invocation and notice.

The Cabot Trail in Nova Scotia

Broadsheet. Poetry. Postcard. Printed in brown on yellow paper within single-line border with maple leaves at top center and lower corners, verso postcard format with title and imprint information. At end of poem: Written by resident of Wickford, R.I. First line: Far from the city throughfares [i.e. thoroughfares?]

The Butler campaign

The Butler campaign

Brown University

To be sung to the tune: Bonnie Dundee. Within double line border. Campaign song for Butler's victorious contest against R.H. Dana for Congressional seat in 1868.

The Butler campaign

The Butler campaign

Brown University

To be sung to the tune: Bonnie Dundee. Within double line border. Campaign song for Butler's victorious contest against R.H. Dana for Congressional seat in 1868.

The Butler campaign

The Butler campaign

Brown University

To be sung to the tune: Bonnie Dundee. Within border of type ornaments. Campaign song for Butler as a candidate in Massachusetts; he ran several times for governor in the 1870s and 1880s.

The butcher: poem

The butcher: poem

Brown University

by John Barrell. Printed in black and red on recto and in gray on verso on white paper. At end of text illustration of wrecked butcher's shop; on verso vignette of man dining captioned: Good food. Poem in four four-line stanzas. Brown University copy acquired with other items from Hermes Free Press and Zephyrus Image.

The bustle in a house

The bustle in a house

Brown University

Title from first line. Within black mourning border. At end of text: A supplement to American Heritage, December, 1963.

The burning of the Dunbar residence: took place in Bedford, November 8, '89

Alexander B. Beard, author. Within double-line border. At left of title wood-engraving in oval border of head and shoulders of man with mustache, captioned: The author. Poem in seven four-line stanzas. At end of text within border: Address of the author, 201 Winter St., West Manchester, N.H. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The burial of Latané

The burial of Latané

Brown University

Printed on blue paper; text within border of type ornaments. At head of text: By Jno. R. Thompson. At end of text: Note- The beautiful image in the concluding stanza is borrowed .. Poem appeared in "Southern Literary Messenger," July and August 1862; also cf. version printed in His: Poems (New York, 1920) First line of poem: The combat raged not long, but ours the day.

The burden of mothers: a clarion call to redeem the race!

by Charlotte Perkins Stetson. Within ornamental borders at top and bottom on pages [3]-[4] and at bottom on page [2]; ribbon decoration on pages[1] and [2] Cover title. Poem in 17 four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The burden of mothers: a clarion call to redeem the race!

by Charlotte Perkins Stetson. Within ornamental borders at top and bottom on pages [3]-[4] and at bottom on page [2]; ribbon decoration on pages[1] and [2] Cover title. Poem in 17 four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.